Abstract art
The international art fair is at Randall's Island in New York City this weekend. A peek inside Frieze's huge tent reveals expensive art, a phallic fixation—and a lot of selfies.
There are some beautiful works of art at the Armory Show and New York's other art fairs. But you will also become extremely aware of the extravagant lives of the super-rich.
At the end of a show in Italy, Robert Rauschenberg, faced with a stinging critique and steep shipping costs to move his works back home, threw all of it into the Arno River.
The artist Robert Rauschenberg thought destroying a work by Willem de Kooning was ‘not a negation, it’s a celebration.’ The art world was divided.
Former gallery owner Ann Freedman is in court accused of selling fake Rothkos for millions—and using false citations to authenticate them.
From Cezanne to Rembrandt, paintings by famous artists all too often have names that don’t really match the work. How does this happen?
In a novel about the abstract expressionists who toiled in their youth for the WPA, author B.A. Shapiro skewers the isolationists’ intransigence toward refugees.