In the 1990s, Rebecca Morris began to search for methods of constructing abstract paintings in surprising ways. And constructing is the operative term — as are synonyms like building ...

A painting by New York abstract artist Barnett Newman sold for a record $43.8 million at Sotheby's last night. Onement Vi, a 8.5ft by 10ft dark blue canvas with Newman's distinctive 'zip' running ...

NEW YORK -- A large 1953 painting by abstract expressionist artist Barnett Newman has sold for $43.8 million at a New York City auction, setting an auction record for his work.It's called the zip ...

death and entombment — but on a collection of 15 abstract modernist paintings by Barnett Newman, made between 1958 and 1966, known as “Stations of the Cross.” “I give a little bit of ...

Fifty years ago, on July 16, 1973, the director of the yet-to-open National Gallery of Australia, James Mollison, spent $1.3 million of taxpayers’ money to acquire Blue poles, by abstract ...

“MAGNIFICENT”; “stunning”; “his single greatest painting ... the co-curator of “Abstract Expressionism”, refers to the purchase of “Blue Poles” as “the best cultural ...