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Clyfford Still: The Lone Visionary of Abstract Expressionism – A Force Beyond the New York School
On view until September 14, 2025, the Clyfford Still Museum’s current exhibition, ‘Held Impermanence,’ guest-curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds, draws deeply upon the collections and archives of the museum to explore a fascinating paradox: Still’s fierce desire for artistic control set against the inevitable aging and deterioration of his materials. The exhibition illuminates this tension…
Why the World Is Finally Looking East: The Global Rise of Korean Artists and Dansaekhwa
In recent decades, the global art scene has experienced a remarkable transformation, gradually shifting its focus eastward to embrace Korean artists’ understated yet profoundly expressive works. Monochrome painting, or Dansaekhwa, a genre born from Korea’s post-war turmoil, stands at the center of this shift. Now, this deeply Korean artistic movement is gaining widespread international recognition and…
The 6 Most Significant Contemporary Art Movements You Need to Know About
The contemporary art movement is characterized by its constant evolution and rejection of traditional art forms and techniques. From provocative installations that make us question reality to vibrant street art that transforms our urban landscapes, contemporary art is a visual interaction that challenges us to experience the world differently. Contemporary art is best known for…
Brushes to Bytes: Navigating the Intersection of Art and Technology
The recent controversy surrounding the “completion” of Keith Haring’s unfinished painting using AI has ignited a global discussion on the ethical boundaries of using technology in the art-making process.  Haring, celebrated for his graffiti-inspired works characterized by dancing figures and radiant lines, captured the essence of the 1980s New York City street culture – making…
Beyond the Male Gaze: Why Women Abstract Expressionists Deserve More Recognition
Abstract Expressionism, the art movement born in the energetic post-World War II New York art scene, has long been the domain of icons like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. Their work, bursting with authentic emotion with their liberated form, became synonymous with the expressive spirit of the mid-twentieth century post-war era. However,…
The Art of Blur: Man Ray and the Forgotten Movement Between Dada and Surrealism
“Man Ray,” the poet André Breton once said, “is the quintessential modern artist — free, inventive, and forever unclassifiable.” That slipperiness is exactly what the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream brings into focus. Rather than slotting the artist neatly into the canon of Dada or Surrealism, the show positions him as inhabiting…
Eternal Blue in the Realm of IKB: Yves Klein’s Vision Beyond the Visible
In a dazzling Paris evening sale in October 2025, Yves Klein’s monumental California (IKB 71) (1961), a fourteen-foot expanse of pure ultramarine, sold for €18.4 million (about $21.4 million), the highest price ever paid for the artist in France. The work, created just a year before Klein’s untimely death, stands as both an apex of his painterly ambition and…
Wifredo Lam: Decolonizing Modernism – A Vision Whose Time Has Come
There are moments in the life of museums when an exhibition does more than bring together a celebrated body of work; it shifts an axis. Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream at the Museum of Modern Art reminds us that modernism was never a monolith — and that the imagination, when rooted in identity and…
The 6 Most Significant Contemporary Art Movements You Need to Know About
The contemporary art movement is characterized by its constant evolution and rejection of traditional art forms and techniques. From provocative installations that make us question reality to vibrant street art that transforms our urban landscapes, contemporary art is a visual interaction that challenges us to experience the world differently. Contemporary art is best known for…
Brushes to Bytes: Navigating the Intersection of Art and Technology
The recent controversy surrounding the “completion” of Keith Haring’s unfinished painting using AI has ignited a global discussion on the ethical boundaries of using technology in the art-making process.  Haring, celebrated for his graffiti-inspired works characterized by dancing figures and radiant lines, captured the essence of the 1980s New York City street culture – making…
Beyond the Male Gaze: Why Women Abstract Expressionists Deserve More Recognition
Abstract Expressionism, the art movement born in the energetic post-World War II New York art scene, has long been the domain of icons like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. Their work, bursting with authentic emotion with their liberated form, became synonymous with the expressive spirit of the mid-twentieth century post-war era. However,…
The AI Art Movement: Collaboration or Competition?
In early 20th-century New York, Marcel Duchamp audaciously challenged the art world when he championed the notion that a mere porcelain urinal could transcend its functional identity to be revered as art. This simple yet profoundly subversive act wasn’t just about redefining art but about rethinking human creativity altogether. The curiosity and ultimate defiance of Duchamp inspired…
Why Cézanne Still Matters
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is not just a painter of apples and mountains — he is the hinge between centuries of tradition and the birth of modern art. Often called the “father of modern painting,” Cézanne’s radical experiments with color, form, and perspective gave artists like Picasso, Matisse, and Braque the courage to push painting into…
Clyfford Still: The Lone Visionary of Abstract Expressionism – A Force Beyond the New York School
On view until September 14, 2025, the Clyfford Still Museum’s current exhibition, ‘Held Impermanence,’ guest-curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds, draws deeply upon the collections and archives of the museum to explore a fascinating paradox: Still’s fierce desire for artistic control set against the inevitable aging and deterioration of his materials. The exhibition illuminates this tension…
Why the World Is Finally Looking East: The Global Rise of Korean Artists and Dansaekhwa
In recent decades, the global art scene has experienced a remarkable transformation, gradually shifting its focus eastward to embrace Korean artists’ understated yet profoundly expressive works. Monochrome painting, or Dansaekhwa, a genre born from Korea’s post-war turmoil, stands at the center of this shift. Now, this deeply Korean artistic movement is gaining widespread international recognition and…