Long live painting! In the Tang's main gallery, "Dona Nelson: Stand Alone Paintings," a retrospective of large acrylic works that cavort and compete for your attention, every single work sizzles and ...

After a lengthy stretch during which emerging painters have leaned into commercial preferences for the traditional, many seem to be breaking free from the market’s emphasis on imagery and narrative.

Since Jackson Pollock first poured enamel onto an unsized canvas laid out on the floor, artists have restated painting’s identity in a multitude of ways, starting with Helen Frankenthaler pouring ...

Mathematicians often talk about the elegance of their work, especially when they solve complex problems with streamlined equations, transforming chaos into order, confusion into beauty. That does not ...

Every spring, Woodmere Art Museum takes what director and CEO William Valerio calls, in this year’s show catalog, “a step into the abyss.” In other words, Woodmere staff gives the reins to an outside ...

Dona Nelson continues to prove herself as a skilled interrogator of painting. With impatience and glee, she addresses the fundamental questions that have dogged painters over the past century,why, ...