Caretakers of The Limit (1947), a greyish-green abstract painting by Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky, had been pointing out the telltale signs for years: small drops of paint—brighter than any ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...

Although famous for figurative works, the American modernist had a little-known foray into abstract painting that included some of his best work. By Roberta Smith An unfamiliar side of the work of the ...

IT is not easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan’s Whitney Museum of American Art, believes he ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

Raymond Jonson, Casein Tempera No. 1, 1939. (Courtesy of the Albuquerque Museum / Rose Silva and Evelyn Gutierrez) Every generation gets to rehabilitate at least one artistic style that its ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A green horse, a red sky, a forest of blue trees. Born of the same century that gave us Marcel Duchamp’s urinal ...