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SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. IT was hard-edge paintings that made Ellsworth Kelly famous: large, geometric canvases full of smooth, pure color that make a striking impact on the white walls of museums and [...]

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Nan Goldin: Scopophilia, the next exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. This will be the artist’s first exhibition in New York since 2007 and [...]

In post 9/11 America, where culture has become a battleground for warring ideas and New York City is precariously positioned as its epicenter, Islamic art is in fashion again. This time, however, [...]

Cognitive dissonance. It’s a cliché by now, a toss-off term used to explain (or to keep from explaining) all sorts of contradictions, hypocrisies, moral and ethical failings, feats of [...]

The Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany has yielded yet another startling archeological discovery — the oldest evidence of human painting ever found in Central Europe. The meaning of the [...]

Chris Maybach‘s film, Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist, was made in 2005 on behalf of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of their retrospective of Tuttle’s work (which also came to [...]

Robert Storr talks about Gerhard Richter’s Cage paintings.

DENVER — Federal regulators on Monday approved a $50 million installation of anchored fabric over the Arkansas River in southern Colorado by the artist Christo, whose larger-than-life vision has [...]

This film profiles American artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) in the context of Modernism and reviews the past fifty years of his creative life. It presents archival footage, photographs, and [...]