Go backstage at the 1960 Democratic National Convention with photographer Gary Winogrand.
Postwar American art
A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy.
Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg’s Retroactive I
Taking cues from Mexican basket-weaving, Asawa creates diaphanous abstract forms from woven wire.
Ruth Asawa, Untitled
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With this canvas, Coca-Cola [3], Warhol becomes Warhol.
Warhol, Coca-Cola [3]
Frankenthaler doesn’t paint the landscape per se, but offers an intuitive response to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.
Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea
Gordon Parks and the writer Ralph Ellison collaborated to show that Harlem is everywhere.
Gordon Parks, Off on My Own (Harlem, ...
Why those hazy rectangles, and why should I care? Here’s why.
The Case for Mark Rothko
What kind of an art can thrive with such a formidable co-star as Earth?
The Case for Land Art
Pollock dripped, flung, scattered, and poured paint on canvases spread out on the floor—but why?
The Case for Jackson Pollock
Does the figure emerge from the stripes of the flag, or do they imprison him?
Benny Andrews, Flag Day
By laying bare the relationship between commerce and art, Warhol nullified the idea of being a sell out.
The Case for Andy Warhol
There’s no Marie Kondo tidying up here, so what is Minimalism, really?
The Case for Minimalism
Just because a painting isn’t full of angels doesn’t mean it isn’t spiritual and transcendent.
Mark Rothko, No. 210/No. 211 (Orange), 1960
De Kooning painted image after image on this canvas, continually wiping it down and starting again.
Willem de Kooning, Woman, I
400 stainless steel poles in the high desert of New Mexico are the object, but the subject is the sublime.
Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field
Drought and rain govern when this work of art in Utah’s Great Salt Lake can be seen.
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
Though hand painted, this image’s regularity erased any sign of individuality or emotional investment in the work.
Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and ...
Krasner severed the link between art and the everyday world, making important breakthroughs in abstraction.
Lee Krasner, Untitled
A viewing station for sunrise and sunset, Turrell’s work manipulates light, time, and perception.
James Turrell, Skyscape, the way of color
Serious Art or a jungle gym? Morris shows us that art can be experienced bodily, and Minimalism can be fun.