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 ...

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

The artist’s earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement’s signal achievements. By Roberta Smith In the early ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get set to see colors spilling off the wall, pixelation without a screen or electronics and fabric used in a way you’ve probably never seen it when the Springfield Museum of Art (SMoA) introduces its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...