After making millions off her paintings, abstract expressionist Agnes Martin became a secret and substantial benefactor to a range of causes in New Mexico. Here, photographs of the late artist’s philanthropic projects are made public for the first time.
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Agnes Martin’s Contemporary Sublime
This uninterrupted stroll through nearly six decades of work reminds one of how few other artists from her generation sustained such long, capable, trajectories in art-making.
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Opening Up to Agnes Martin’s Pure Abstraction
A retrospective of the artist’s work at the Guggenheim Museum is worth seeing on more than one occasion, and it will probably appear differently each time.
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Agnes Martin, Irreproducible
When a cloud passes overhead, the paintings all but disappear.
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Agnes Martin: In Two New Books, A Life Revealed
How does one begin to tell — or unravel — the story of Agnes Martin (1912–2004), one of modern art’s most original and self-effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding?
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Looking Between the Lines of Max Cole’s Abstract Paintings
In the artist’s exhibition Endless Journey, each tiny, delicate mark reads as a meditative act, imbued with rigorous attention, care, and focus.
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Xylor Jane’s Cosmic Grids
The rules that structure Jane’s paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting.
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Art Gallerist and Patron Virginia Dwan Dies at 90
Dwan helped pave the way when women-owned galleries were not so easy to find, or run.
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The Jewish Museum Examines a Pivotal Period for Art and Culture in New York: 1962–1964
Featuring more than 180 works by iconic artists, the exhibition is the last project conceived and curated by the late art historian, curator, and critic Germano Celant.
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A New Mexico Arts Festival Goes Full Immersive
The site-specific, high-tech, experiential festival is coming back to the streets of Taos.
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Images Festival: Slow Edition Considers Tenderness as Transgression in a soft landing
Alyssa Alikpala, Erika DeFreitas, Rihab Essayh, Eve Tagny, and Alize Zorlutuna consider entanglements of bereavement, spirit, and love in this Toronto exhibition.
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Guggenheim Museum Director Richard Armstrong to Step Down
Armstrong, a controversial figure at the institution, held the position for over 14 years.