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Alexander Calder thought 'it would be fun' to set abstract art in motion. His mesmerizing mobiles transformed the definition of sculpture
When Alexander Calder was 11, he made his parents two small animal figurines for Christmas: a dog and a duck, both sculpted ...
This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...
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Revisiting the Advent of the Abstract
A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The records of the American Abstract Artists measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1936 through 1983. The records document the founding of the ...
An abstract painting by Indianapolis artist Kristen Kloss, who will be showing her work along with another artist, Barbara Thomas, in a two-person abstract show throughout March at the Southside Art ...
A new exhibition at Shrine gallery in Tribeca challenges the conventional narrative of abstract art’s birth, spotlighting self-taught and outsider artists whose work developed independently of formal ...
Chances are when Sean Scully paints, it will look something like this: geometric, colorful grids, stripes woven together, his signature style. "I use very simple structure," Scully told correspondent ...
The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, which was extensively renovated and reinvigorated a few years ago, has two sharp modern exhibits on view for a few more weeks. “Andy Warhol: Endangered Species” is a ...
FARGO — You’re probably not thinking about art when you’re at the mall browsing discount shoe racks or walking off a food court snack. Yet, surprisingly, West Acres Shopping Center is home to the ...
On the paper roll that serves as a guest book at the Phoenix in Waterbury, one visitor wrote, “Nice gallery! So trusting!” Indeed, visiting an exhibition in the high-ceilinged room can be a solitary, ...
The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women have never been given rights. They have fought for them, marched for them, and organized for them. Continually and ...
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