Norman Carton: from Ukraine to Philadelphia to New York, bridging Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism by William Corwin At age 10, in 1918, Norman Carton and his mother were in hiding dur...
Charting the path of a modern master by William Corwin Gilot’s line is the first thing you notice, her tool for expressing an image. In her portraits in pencil, the line becomes the central e...
American artists on the move at mid-century by Lilly Wei There was an epochal transition in the years immediately after World War II as the center of the art world, a position held by Paris for a...
Mildred Thompson: A visionary abstract painter who used String Theory to illuminate the human condition By William Corwin Mildred Thompson’s paintings “were the children of her age,” to pa...
Nine weeks that upended French Art By Lilly Wei It was July 1905 in Collioure, a quaint French fishing village sandwiched between the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean and the slopes of th...
Dutch Art Helps Shape the Western World’s View of Itself By James D. Balestrieri The six themes that comprise Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an ex...
One of the founders of Abstract Expressionism is finally getting the recognition she deserves By William Corwin Imagine the atmosphere of a crowded and murmurous second-floor loft on Eighth Stree...
Into the Spotlight: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramists By Lilly Wei Clay, like many materials formerly relegated to the less acclaimed echelons of craft, at least in the United States, has ris...
A new exhibition explores Mark Rothko’s works on paper, revaluing an unappreciated medium By Ashley Busby Too often an artist becomes synonymous with that thing that cements their status, leavi...
Yoo Youngkuk, celebrated at home as a groundbreaking modernist painter, is having his first solo exhibition outside South Korea By Lilly Wei Yoo Youngkuk once said that he used the mountain as hi...