Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. A new documentary on Mark Rothko, one of the most influential ...

New Britain Museum of American Art has a Robert Motherwell polyptych — “The Blue Painting Lesson: A Study in Painterly Logic” — on exhibit in its Huntington Gallery. A documentary showing at the ...

Abstract Expressionism, the movement that cemented New York’s status as the new center of the art world after World War II, is coming home—to Paris. The quintessentially American art movement’s debt ...

“You always feel better after looking at a Milton Avery painting,” says Edith Devaney, the curator of the first comprehensive exhibition in Europe dedicated to the American painter (1885-1965). “He’s ...

Allan Stone, a vital and respected New York art collector and dealer who ignored art world fashion and embraced artists whose work stirred him personally -- among them such masters as Willem de ...

Art historians typically view the serene French impressionists and the stormy German expressionists as polar opposites, but a new exhibition begs to differ, arguing that the movements have much in ...

Sri-Lankan-British artist and designer Cecil Balmond once said, "The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is." Abstract art plays with the ...