Helen Frankenthaler, “Canal” (1963), acrylic on canvas, 208.3 x 146.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in ...

The artist’s earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement’s signal achievements. By Roberta Smith In the early ...

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

It is hard to find artists who put color above all else. So many other things can preoccupy their creativity and get in the way. But there was a time when color reigned supreme. Color Field artists ...

The next few months may get gray and dreary outdoors, but indoors, there are plenty of places offering a burst of brightness. MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine Galleries will be one of them. For the ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

Feel the need for an artistic breath of fresh air? There’s a new place to find it: “Color Field” at the Univ. of Houston. The university’s first temporary group show of public sculpture features 13 ...

Liza Lou. “Color Field,” 2013-15. Glass beads, stainless steel, and Signex. 43’7″ x 24’7″. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube, London. It took a village — over 500 people beading, sorting, and ...

One of this season’s most important shows — at least to those of us with an interest in the history of contemporary art in our region — is Opened Windows, a retrospective devoted to the work of ...