Tag: Robert Motherwell

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
Abstract Expressionism

The towering canvases of abstract expressionism crowd the main galleries of the Royal Academy in this monumental exhibition
Bernard Jacobson: ‘I want to bring people back to art’

The art dealer talks about his current exhibition, Bonheur de Vivre, which he considers ‘a precis of 20th-century beauty’, a return to art that focuses on passion, joy, happiness, light and colour
Paul Huxley: ‘I have more fun making sculpture than making paintings, but I’ve made paintings all my life’

The artist talks about his career, from visiting Robert Motherwell and Lee Krasner in New York in the 1960s, to his wall drawings for the Azerbaijan pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, to his new work for a forthcoming show…
Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper

An exhibition of more than 80 drawings by Cy Twombly is on show at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. The works give an insight into the formation of Twombly’s characteristic style through process and experimentation
Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner

Turner Contemporary, Margate 25 January – 11 May 2014
Art Basel Miami Beach – 2013: the lowdown

For those of you who couldn’t make it, Jill Spalding has the inside information. Who was there – from artists and dealers to pop stars – what was hot and what was not, and what everyone was talking about.
The origins on paper

When art patron Peggy Guggenheim met Robert Motherwell in the 1940s, she encouraged the young artist to work with collage and also organised his first solo exhibition at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. This story is…
Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 11 October–26 November 2011
Sharon Booma’s Odes and Intimations of Immortality

The seductive allure of Sharon Booma’s paintings defies description. Viewing one of the artist’s oil and mixed media inventions, one feels an attraction to surface beauty, the pull of colour and texture, and then the plunge into deeper mystery. Booma’s…