Willem de Kooning

Morse code, Japanese woodblock techniques and metallic foil have all found their way into this well traveled artist’s work

Here's what to see and who to keep on your radar this month.

Over the last 60 years, 10 art critics altered the course of art history. Here's who they are, and what they wrote.

Advancing the fields of painting, photography, performance, and more, Rauschenberg's work is inextricable from the history of art as a whole.

In 1991, Vija Celmins sat down with Chuck Close and had a conversation than can only be shared between two artists deeply committed to drawing. We return to this interview for Celmins first exhibition in seven years currently on view at Matthew Marks.

As an Easter treat, here are five artworks with religious connotations you may not quite have caught.

A 1994 essay examines the lesbian artist/dealer behind Abstract Expressionism, and the woman and LGTBQ artists she championed alongside men like Pollock, Rothko, Newman, Hofmann.

Lawrence Weiner talks with Bejamin Buchloh about setting off explosives in national parks, the relationship between design and class, and finding Godard.

If American art museums banned artwork made or donated by U.S. immigrants, this is what they'd be like.

The controversial collector/dealer explains his Darwinian approach to the art market, and why a generation of Zombie Formalists fell to "greed and stupidity."

To celebrate the release of the museum's extensive exhibition archives, we've delved into some of the most fascinating, influential shows of the 1960s.

In these three essays excerpted from Phaidon's new painting compendium we learn more about three of the most forward-thinking figurative painters of our time.

From visual surveys covering art history's full sweep to a chronicle of the evolution of the art exhibition, these resources will provide an easily affordable education at home.

From sand sculptures and houseboat installation, to sunken ships and abandoned airports, Rockaway is much more than sand and sun.

In this brief essay from Phaidon’s Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements, we learn about the historical developments and key artists that paved away for this highly influential painting style.

The artists-turned-gallerists Hilary Schaffner and Ryan Wallace tell us why their location a hundred miles from New York City works to their advantage.

In Part 2 of our special feature on the aesthetic preferences of the current presidential hopefuls, Alexandra Peers takes a deep dive into Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders's engagement with the arts.

With the dust settled, what did we learn from the auctions? Some things will surprise you.

The Parisian founder of the vanguard Brussels art gallery tells Artspace why he values clear, straightforward communication with his artists and collectors, and why it's important to have uncompromising critics.

This tony uptown enclave, long a dusty stretch of residential doldrums, is suddenly a cornucopia of new and old art alike. Here are 16 reasons to give it another look.

What do the Met's new museum and the art market have to do with the rise of Donald Trump? Here, a theory is ventured.

As its inaugural exhibitions reveal, the Met's newest physical branch is just one part of a larger, web-based strategy.

On the eve of the new museum branch's opening, Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein spoke to the intrepid curator about her plans for the unprecedented project.

As the latest installment of our NADA Network series, Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein sat down with the dealer to hear about the enriching philosophy behind the gallery.

These seminal works from the past century, excerpted from Phaidon's art history anthologies, extend the human form in entirely novel directions.

In advance of her new show at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, the artist gave Karen Rosenberg a tour of her studio to reveal the latest development in her process.

We visited the artist's Connecticut studio to discuss her innovative multi-canvas technique and why she doesn't like being compared to the Abstract Expressionists.

From a young up-and-comer making a big push at Seattle’s new tech-targeting art fair to a famed photographer tackling a classic theme of the sublime, these are the artists we’ll be tracking this month.

In interview, the noted architect explains how art should function in a space, what drives him crazy about other people's houses, and why artists tend to have the messiest collections

We spoke to the critic and scholar about the complex condition of painting, the decline of criticism, and what cliche about the medium drives him up the wall.

In an interview, the connoisseurial Upper East Side dealer on de Kooning, the differences between Wall Street and the art world, and his debt to a remarkable gallerist.

An appreciation of the renowned art critic and historian whose landmark achievement was to simply pay attention to how the artists of his time explained what they were doing.

In the third installment of our series, we look back on the profound if elusive achievements of one of America's greatest historians—and catalysts—of art.

In the second installment of our look back on the seminal art critics of the 20th century, we review the accomplishments of a champion of Abstract Expressionism.

In the first of a series, we provide a brief synopsis of the ideas and achievements of one of America's most legendary—and legendarily pugnacious—art critics.

We surveyed a few galleries from throughout the past century that made revolutionary contributions to art, only to fade away.

Beside Duchamp's major contributions to conceptual thinking in Modern art, the artist's oeuvre also offers some surprising lessons for artists today.

Uncertain art and shaky footing combined with enormous potential at the fair's debut—and there were signs aplenty that San Jose could emerge as major player on the international art circuit.

To celebrate Valentine's Day, we've compiled a list of some of the more prominent couples whose hearts have been intertwined by the aesthetic ribbons of contemporary art.