Abstract expressionism Archives

Review: Audrey Flack’s ‘With Darkness Came Stars’ | Observer Arts

Audrey Flack in 1981. Photo by Nancy R. Schiff/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Late last month, artist Audrey Flack passed away at the age of 93. Her photorealist paintings expressed a vision …

Review: “Janet Sobel: All-Over” at The Menil Collection

by Haddis Thomas

‘Milky Way,’ 1945, Enamel on canvas, 44 7/8 x 29 7/8″ (114 x 75.9 cm). Gift of the artist’s family. © Janet Sobel. Photo: © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed …

Stop Ragging On Rothko

by Horatio Thompson

People love to make fun of art. After all, rich people will say that anything they own is a piece of art — down to their mass-produced, entirely normal cars …