So far as I am aware, Sean Scully is the first great abstract painter to write a children’s story. And now he has a collaboration, Oisin Scully, who is his fourteen year old son. Sean always has a ...

A brilliant colorist, he hung his canvases from ceilings in great curves and loops, or pinned them, gathered, to walls, taking his medium into three dimensions. By Roberta Smith Sam Gilliam, a ...

Abstract Expressionist painter Mary Abbott, known for her colorful canvases and sweeping brushstrokes, has died at the age of 98. McCormick Gallery in Chicago, which has represented the artist for ...

Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

David Hammons’ thoughtful curation of the exhibition, 'Ed Clark: Big Bang', currently at the Tilton Gallery helps establish a much needed context for an important artist of the New York School, who, ...

Review: Hilma af Klint, The Secret Paintings. Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 1986, those art historians who see art as some form of linear progression “improving” with time received a rude shock.