Tag: Barnett Newman

Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy

Known as a gallerist to the likes of Rauschenberg and Rothko, Parsons spent her weekends making her own art – and as this show proves, her art was also more than noteworthy
Susan Roth – interview ‘Art can be made by anybody at anytime, anywhere with anything. That’s the gospel!’

The American painter Susan Roth talks about working in the ‘trenches of our time, where time bends and folds’, the ‘roiling’ surfaces of her shaped canvases, her recent works in synthetic stone, and being filled with ‘radical hope’
Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis. I’m kind of proud of that’

Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess with David Hockney and having a Scotch with Clement Greenberg
The God That Failed: Louise Bourgeois, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko

An intriguing exhibition situates Bourgeois’ characterful early sculptures alongside the two incipient abstract expressionists
Pierre Dunoyer – interview: ‘If the colour is not in its proper place, there isn’t harmony’

For his first solo exhibition in France in more than three decades, the French artist is celebrated through a retrospective of 14 paintings. He talks about his career and explains how working with young schizophrenics led to him overcoming his…
After White: Michaela Zimmer and Peter Welz

Weaving a path in and out of Peter Welz’s awkward steel architectural intervention, the viewer comes up close and personal, in an unsettling way, with Michaela Zimmer’s layered canvases. Scratch the surface and there is far more to be told…
Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West

This exhibition considers abstract expressionism through its Asian-American practitioners, with a focus on Hawaii’s artists, as it brings them together with their US counterparts, such as Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock
Karin Schneider: Situational Diagram

Restricting herself to the abstract and the monochrome, referencing Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and setting rules for the sale of her work, Schneider questions the central relationships in art – between artist and antecedent, gallerist and buyer
Interview with Dorothea Rockburne

Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 21 September 2013 – 20 January 2014
Anish Kapoor: Artist of Smoke, Air and Space

Anish Kapoor is the man behind one of the most expensive public sculptures in the world – the US$23 million, 33-feet high, 110-ton polished stainless steel curved plate called ‘Cloud Gate’ (2004), which is located in AT&T Plaza in Millennium…