Growing up in Jim Crow Alabama, Whitten was barred from the public library but, by 1960, he was in New York, studying art at Cooper Union. The Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis (a Black American ...

Because “Magnetic Fields” focuses on artists who were black, female, and committed their passions specifically to abstract art. Understanding the mental space defined by these two shows ...

Black Abstract Painters Are Finally Given Their Due. CU Boulder Today spoke with O’Grady, a critic and essayist who recently joined the university as assistant professor of Critical and Curatorial ...

Colorful mosaic artwork in the newly updated 68th Street-Hunter College subway station isn't just brightening up the area. Instead, these abstract glass ... Subway art is part of a Met Museum ...