Helen Frankenthaler, “Canal” (1963), acrylic on canvas, 208.3 x 146.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in ...

The next few months may get gray and dreary outdoors, but indoors, there are plenty of places offering a burst of brightness. MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries will be one of them. For the ...

One of this season’s most important shows — at least to those of us with an interest in the history of contemporary art in our region — is Opened Windows, a retrospective devoted to the work of ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

At NSU Art Museum’s ambitious new show on color-field painting, there is one significant omission that lovers of modern art won’t be able to miss. Mark Rothko, whose color-block canvases made him one ...

Liza Lou. “Color Field,” 2013-15. Glass beads, stainless steel, and Signex. 43’7″ x 24’7″. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube, London. It took a village — over 500 people beading, sorting, and ...

When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he started connecting with artists’ estates and living artists linked to Bennington College’s midcentury heyday. Founded in 1932 as ...

Feel the need for an artistic breath of fresh air? There’s a new place to find it: “Color Field” at the Univ. of Houston. The university’s first temporary group show of public sculpture features 13 ...

It is hard to find artists who put color above all else. So many other things can preoccupy their creativity and get in the way. But there was a time when color reigned supreme. Color Field artists ...