Latest Abstract art News

Jackson Pollock stamp from Abstract Expressionists sheet (The Star-Ledger)

I don’t know too much about art, but I know what I like, and I really like the U.S. Postal Service’s new sheet of 10 abstract expressionist paintings. The 44-cent commemoratives celebrate the work of 10 American artists of the...

On exhibit: An experiment in abstract (Chambersburg Public Opinion)

Abstract art, watercolor, and artificial paper are the key ingredients of "All Abstract," an art show sponsored by Franklin County Art Alliance and on view this month in Grove Family Library, 101 Ragged Edge Road South.

Eve Samples: Visually impaired enjoy art, that's helping raise needed funds (Indian River Press Journal)

STUART — It’s been 17 years since Brenda Hunt lost the ability to see through her right eye. Eight years since retinopathy made her blind in the left. Yet on Wednesday afternoon, she lingered in a downtown Stuart gallery, savoring the abstract art on the walls.She ran her fingers over the textures of Horst Mueller’s paintings. She felt the smoothness of his signature gold circles and the ...

Abstract animal art may mean aid to Haiti (Houston Chronicle)

Doc is a big orangutan with an outsized personality. But put a paintbrush in his hand, and the blustering brute becomes a soulful, sensitive artist. Not so Tucker the elephant.

Recycled items create art and inspiration (Ventura County Reporter)

Recycled items create art and inspiration

'Red', a Portrait of Artist Rothko in His Prime, Begins Broadway Run (Playbill via Yahoo! News)

Red, the Donmar Warehouse production of John Logan's play about 20th-century abstract-impressionist artist Mark Rothko, starring Alfred Molina, makes its U.S. debut at Broadway's Golden Theatre starting March 11.

Worthington: MAC art classes postponed for lack of interest (This Week Worthington)

The staff at the McConnell Arts Center is headed back to the drawing board to plan for its first season of art classes.

Portrait of an artist (People's Daily)

&$ &$Based in Paris, Chu Teh-Chun's works are seen as poetic abstraction. [Photo: China Daily]&$ &$ An unusual opening was held at National Art Museum of China in Beijing for a master painter, in celebration of his 90th birthday this year. Though his family and friends, joined by throngs of people from the art community, attended the event, Chu Teh-Chun was absent. The Chinese-born abstract ...

Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog (Arts Journal)

As I stood in the Philadelphia Museum of Art looking at Henri Matisse's perpetually fascinating Portrait of Mlle. Yvonne Landsberg , I heard someone say: "Wednesday."

Destructive Pollock's last lover (The Age)

She was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that changed the course of American art by killing its angriest abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time. Although badly injured, Ruth Kligman an artist in her own right, survived to become romantically involved with a string of significant art figures. She has died in New York, aged 80.

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