Abstract art

Tournament by Helen Frankenthaler on display during a preview at Sotheby's London.

Pioneering Artist’s Nephew Warring With Fam Over Her Legacy

Private equity firm founder Frederick Iseman claims his own family kicked him off the board of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation after he called out their “self-dealing.”

Emily Shugerman

‘IT WAS VERY OBVIOUS’

Mondrian Painting Has Been Hanging Upside Down for 75 Years

It may now be too late to hang it the right way up, an expert warned.

Dan Ladden-Hall

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HE MAN WOMEN HATERS CLUB

It’s Time We Break Up the Art Boys Club Once and for All

Researching a biography of the flamboyant AbEx painter Sam Francis, Gabrielle Selz discovered what a self-mythologizer he was and the male-dominated art world that enabled him.

Gabrielle Selz

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FOR ART’S SAKE

Million-Dollar Art Heist From a Bohemian Drinking Den

The Colony Room, beloved by artists from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, was a byword for debauchery. But when it closed, a million dollars worth of art vanished off its walls.

Tom Sykes

VISIONARY

Vaughan Oliver, Iconic 4AD Album-Cover Designer, Dead at 62

The artist was behind the look of The Pixies’ “Doolittle” and “Trompe Le Monde,” and The Breeders’ “Last Splash.”

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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FOR ART'S SAKE

Super-Rich Go Shopping For Art at Frieze—and Find Dick Pics

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.

Alaina Demopoulos