Art Review
Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction
An exhibition traces the radical advancements in painting by Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella.
Frank Stella
News
Abstract Trailblazer Frank Stella Dies at 87
The painter and sculptor reoriented the North American arts landscape, defying any strict characterizations of his work as it evolved across concepts and media.
News
The Little-Known Story of a Frank Stella Work Once Mistaken for a Lunch Table
In 1972, Stella donated "Isfahan III" (1968) to the Museum of Solidarity in Chile. After a coup d'etat, the artwork disappeared for nearly 20 years, but its story is coming to light as the museum conserves the painting with the help of the Getty Foundation.
Announcement
Introducing a Mural by Frank Stella in Boston Seaport
Explore new public art by Frank Stella and celebrate the first anniversary of Okuda San Miguel’s sculpture series in Boston Seaport.
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The Colors of the Sixties
Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.
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Frank Stella's Riotous Interpretation of Moby-Dick
There is something almost musical and improvisatory about the artist's interpretation of the epic tale of Captain Ahab and the whale.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World
Our picks for the best art shows in the world this year.
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Hurricane Frank: Rhetorical Abstraction in the Age of the Incidental Viewer
If Frank Stella’s ambition and insatiable visual voracity were exhilarating at first, the paintings’ often overbearing size and physicality also left the viewer, time and again, with the unsettling feeling of being wrestled to the ground.
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A Guide to New York City's Historic Artist Studios
In New York City's constantly changing urban landscape, artist studios can be ephemeral.
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Lessons in Gigantism: Richard Serra Makes It Work
And then there’s Richard Serra, whose double-gallery blowout at Gagosian is Exhibit A for material-intensity-meets-overwhelming-scale. There’s nothing else like it.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2015
2015 was the Year of the Whitney.
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The Elusive Painter Who Predicted Minimalism in the Mid 1950s
John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.