Nothing in the Whitney Museum of American Art's oracular 2010 Biennial Exhibition impressed me more than the work of Los Angeles painter Lesley Vance. Now her work - sadly, only two pieces - figures ...

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...

The old proverb states that: "There is nothing new under the sun." This can feel very true when surveying the landscape of our paint-by-numbers creativity. One thing that stifles new ideas is the fear ...

Carroll Cloar’s exhibit “The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South” delves into themes of the Southern Gothic realm. Cloar’s works express a combination of abstract surrealism ...

While in university, I hatched the term, "abstract surrealism," which is not a far stretch for people today. I was told back in the 1970s and 1980s, "they are incongruent terms" and "it can't be both.

Objects made under the influence of the art movement have inspired many contemporary and modern dealers at the 10th edition of Tefaf New York. By Martha Schwendener This is the 100th anniversary of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. These were some of the questions that came to mind as I was reading Willard Bohn’s recent anthology, Surrealist ...