Evolving from abstract expressionism while looking back at Matisse, a loose group of painters in the 1950s and ’60s created a new kind of sensuous abstraction that celebrated color above all else.

"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975," on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 29 through May 26, is the first full-scale exhibition to examine the sources, meaning and impact of ...

One South African phrase has special significance for artist Liza Lou: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. It loosely translates to “a person is a person because of other people” or “I am because we are.” “That ...

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The next few months may get gray and dreary outdoors, but indoors, there are plenty of places offering a burst of brightness. MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries will be one of them. For the ...

Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

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 ...

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 ...

It is hard to find artists who put color above all else. So many other things can preoccupy their creativity and get in the way. But there was a time when color reigned supreme. Color Field artists ...