Jackson Pollock

Though you've probably heard of most of the artists on this list, we're here to explain what discovery each artist made, and how they effectively changed the definition of art.

Over the last 60 years, 10 art critics altered the course of art history. Here's who they are, and what they wrote.

A 1994 essay examines the lesbian artist/dealer behind Abstract Expressionism, and the woman and LGTBQ artists she championed alongside men like Pollock, Rothko, Newman, Hofmann.

Read about five of the best sculptural and three-dimensional works from this year's Armory Art Show in New York.

Lawrence Weiner talks with Bejamin Buchloh about setting off explosives in national parks, the relationship between design and class, and finding Godard.

In this 2004 interview with the godfather of institutional critique, Hans Haacke taps into art’s relationship with big business, the CIA, Rudolph Giuliani, nationalism, and the George W. Bush administration.

In this illuminating interview with the German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen excerpted from Phaidon’s monograph Isa Genzken, the groundbreaking artist discusses the sometimes unlikely sources of her inspiration.

These pieces by Tom Wesselman, Philip Guston, and others have alarmingly high levels of irresistibility, so be forewarned.

This brief essay from Phaidon's Art in Time shows us some of the key artists of this significant movement, whose conceptual as well as aesthetic strategies remain important to this day.

From visual surveys covering art history's full sweep to a chronicle of the evolution of the art exhibition, these resources will provide an easily affordable education at home.

Artists from Armenia to the Americas realized Surrealist techniques in vastly different ways—here's 10 paintings that show just how diverse the movement is.

In this interview excerpted from her eponymous Phaidon’s monograph, the celebrated South African portraitist discusses the strange nuances of life as an artist with her long time friend Barbara Bloom.

From sand sculptures and houseboat installation, to sunken ships and abandoned airports, Rockaway is much more than sand and sun.

In this brief essay from Phaidon’s Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements, we learn about the historical developments and key artists that paved away for this highly influential painting style.

For the uninitiated, this essay excerpted from Phaidon’s Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements provides a quick primer on this radical group’s major players and events.

The For Freedoms political action committee currently has a group show at Jack Shainman Gallery, but its founders (and the 50-some-odd artists already involved) hope to see the project extend far beyond the white cube.

Picasso's weeping muse, a tennis-playing Caravaggio, and a vanishing Velázquez, are some of the subjects of these newly released, beach-ready memoirs and novels.

The artists-turned-gallerists Hilary Schaffner and Ryan Wallace tell us why their location a hundred miles from New York City works to their advantage.

With the dust settled, what did we learn from the auctions? Some things will surprise you.

The American painter has just been announced as the U.S. representative at next year's Biennale—here's what you need to know about him.

As its inaugural exhibitions reveal, the Met's newest physical branch is just one part of a larger, web-based strategy.

From electrifying works by the major stars of tomorrow to sleeper hits from the mid-20th-century, the other alternative Miami fair has plenty to look at this year.

From Pollock's paint drips to Cary Young's atomic accounting, these works from Phaidon's new book Body of Art each elide simple figuration.

In this now-legendary 1951 documentary, the photographer Hans Namuth documents the Abstract Expressionist's novel painting technique.

We visited the artist's Connecticut studio to discuss her innovative multi-canvas technique and why she doesn't like being compared to the Abstract Expressionists.

From a young up-and-comer making a big push at Seattle’s new tech-targeting art fair to a famed photographer tackling a classic theme of the sublime, these are the artists we’ll be tracking this month.

Make the most out of your long weekend with these scintillating reads from around the web.

Ranging across historical periods and running the gamut of artistic styles, these artworks express the extraordinary breadth of work on view at this year's fair.

On the occasion of a show of her fountains at Storm King Art Center, the Bayou-born Post-Minimalist discusses her water-inspired works.

The author of the new Phaidon book Painting Beyond Pollock discusses a few choice pieces that caught his eye on the site.

In interview, the noted architect explains how art should function in a space, what drives him crazy about other people's houses, and why artists tend to have the messiest collections

We spoke to the critic and scholar about the complex condition of painting, the decline of criticism, and what cliche about the medium drives him up the wall.

From a piece by a rising star that was featured in the last Whitney Biennial to a classic piece of appropriation by a living legend, these are artworks collectors will want to lock down fast.

Armory Week isn't over until Sunday, but some of us are already starting to put up our (tired, swollen) feet and relax with some quality reading material. With these fellow travelers in mind, we humbly present this week's edition of Weekend Reads.

From a career-cataloguing print by arguably America's greatest living artist to a hip-hop paean in paint by a rising star, these are works that collectors should pounce on.

An appreciation of the renowned art critic and historian whose landmark achievement was to simply pay attention to how the artists of his time explained what they were doing.

In the third installment of our series, we look back on the profound if elusive achievements of one of America's greatest historians—and catalysts—of art.

We spoke with the director of the museum's International Program about its possible CIA history, Modernism's oversights, and the need to incorporate new narratives.

In the second installment of our look back on the seminal art critics of the 20th century, we review the accomplishments of a champion of Abstract Expressionism.

In the first of a series, we provide a brief synopsis of the ideas and achievements of one of America's most legendary—and legendarily pugnacious—art critics.

We surveyed a few galleries from throughout the past century that made revolutionary contributions to art, only to fade away.

When certain writers with access to the innermost circles of the art industry gossip, it goes from tabloid fodder to being the stuff of art history.

From a sendup of American art's macho totems to a whirling, melting orb of possibly extra-terrestrial origins, these are a few highlights from the excellent fair.

We spoke with the young advisor about his strange experience overseeing the financial behemoth's corporate art collection before and after the titanic financial collapse in 2008.

From the collages of the Cubists and the readymades of Duchamp to the assemblage works of today, humble materials have been transformed into stunning works of art throughout the last century.

In his latest column, Walter Robinson weighs in on the ongoing Simchowitz debate from the perspective of an artist and critic, looking at the aesthetic upshots of the speculative climate.

As prices at the top soared, with records set by star artists like Francis Bacon and Jeff Koons, lucre remained the art world's bogeyman of choice.