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Renowned painter and pioneer of minimalism Frank Stella dies at 87

Frank Stella was one of America's leading minimalist artists and a pioneer of the minimalist movement of the early 1960s. The movement challenged the idea that art was meant to be representative.

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‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

A new exhibition shows another side of Peggy Guggenheim – the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex giving the ordinary life her best shot

The Guardian - UK

Janet Sobel's Abstract Expressionist Legacy Rediscovered At Menil Collection

Explore Janet Sobel's overlooked contributions to Abstract Expressionism at the Menil Collection's 'All-Over' exhibition in Houston.

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10 Most Expensive Paintings: Brushstrokes Of Value

In the world of contemporary art, a handful of paintings have attained legendary status through their staggering prices at auction. These masterpieces, spanning various eras and styles, epitomize artistic excellence and the vision of renowned creators.

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Jackson Pollock? No, this art was made by a car

It's mudern art, darling.

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Venezuelan artist paints his way to Chicago: ‘I never dreamed I would do that’

Wilfredo Garcia, a self-taught painter from the Venezuelan countryside, paid in murals for his trip across several countries, leaving traces of the spirit of the Venezuelan heartland all along the way.

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Oregon’s eggshell uniforms vs. Washington led to some heated reviews and a lot of jokes

Are these *that* bad?

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Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'

American painter Philip Guston’s (1913-1980) work was filled with creative innovation. But the paintings he is best known for are the series of cartoonish hooded figures begun in the late 1960s.

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‘What would it be like to be evil?’ Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK

Delayed after the murder of George Floyd, this show has now arrived in Britain accompanied by warnings. Our critic revels in the American’s cartoonish renderings of everyday objects – and the hate groups lurking in our midst

The Guardian - UK

For Pilsen body shop mural, artist drew on the work of Jackson Pollock and Shel Silverstein

Joliet artist Matthew Jesiolowski says he was inspired by the “chaos” of Pollock’s artwork and the line work in Silverstein’s illustrations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Arrests made in thefts of Yogi Berra's World Series rings, Warhol and Pollock art

Federal authorities have announced charges against nine people for thefts of millions of dollars worth of paintings, sports memorabilia and other valuables over more than two decades

The Independent UK

Derek Culley obituary

Other lives: Artist whose first studio was a garage, and who curated exhibitions for emerging artists including the young Damien Hirst

The Guardian - UK

Breakin’ Convention; Russell Maliphant Dance Company: Vortex review – sheer pleasure and virtuosity

Breakin’ Convention celebrate 20 years of dazzling virtuosity, while one of the UK’s most thoughtful choreographers shines a new light on Jackson Pollock

The Guardian - UK

Russell Maliphant Dance Company: Vortex review – Jackson Pollock in pure motion

Abstracted figures moving at a mesmerically measured pace recreate the US artist’s painting technique

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Why do we still define female artists as wives, friends and muses?

Even in shows devoted to female artists, they are often associated with the men they knew – but as a look in any gallery will reveal, it never happens the other way round

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Different strokes: the forgotten women of abstract expressionism

A new exhibition highlights 80 unsung female artists from the grouping that made stars of Rothko and Pollock. But does adding them to the canon deflect from the sexism that stymied their careers?

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The NGA's $500m picture and why we shouldn't sell it

"Two inches of that would buy me a washing machine", as one visitor said.

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Queen of Christmas: the wondrous snowy landscapes that made Grandma Moses as big as Jackson Pollock

The upstate New York farmer took up painting at 76 and was soon a star, her ‘old-timey’ scenes proving perfect for stamps, curtains and Christmas cards – saving her from a life of raising chickens

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‘You do see a bit of Jackson Pollock in it’: the country pub with a striking Nicky Winmar artwork

Pat Furze shows the painting by the AFL great that has a special place in his regional pub

The Independent UK

New York's Hamptons offer a feast of indoor, outdoor art

On the eastern end of Long Island, New York, lies a trove of art venues and a rich cultural scene to explore at leisure

Los Angeles Times

Review: There will be blood: 'Project Wolf Hunting' brings it in buckets

If it's blood you're thirsting for — in buckets and fountains and passageways decorated with the stuff as if Jason Voorhees were possessed by Jackson Pollock — your ship has come in. The seas may be mostly calm, but the Korean action-slash-monster movie "Project Wolf Hunting" (emphasis on the slash)…

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: The time Marcia Gay Harden became starstruck by Clint Eastwood and bit her tongue — badly

CHICAGO — On the new CBS legal drama “So Help Me Todd,” Marcia Gay Harden plays a high-powered lawyer who hires her talented but aimless son (Skylar Astin) to work as her in-house investigator. Let the high jinks ensue. “What drew me was the comedy,” said Harden. “Solving the cases…

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‘Stories told in the dark’ – haunting visions from the painter who operated on his own genitals

Forrest Bess was attached to a camouflage unit during the second world war before suffering a breakdown. He then began to transcribe his nocturnal visions, with alarming results

The Conversation

Women artists: the belated craze for blockbuster shows is welcome – but it's not enough

The Barbican’s boldly curated exhibiton of abstract expressionist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) – who was routinely referred to as Jackson Pollock’s wife, despite being a well-established artist long before meeting him – transferred to the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2018. Before it opened, a Spanish newspaper invited me to introduce this “little…

The Guardian - UK

The Lindisfarne Gospels review – was Eadfrith the monk Britain’s first great artist?

This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock

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