Griefen graduated from the Bancroft School in Worcester, and received its Esther Forbes '07 Award for distinguished professional achievement. He studied painting at Bennington Col ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...

Artist Sam Gilliam traces his breakthrough work—jazzily exuberant, Color Field paintings, made in Washington, D.C., in the 1960s, during the height of the Civil Rights movement—to an unlikely source. ...