Two months before she died, Alma Thomas invited the art critic Eleanor Munro to her red brick house in Washington, D.C.’s ...

Here, Karmel discusses the book, some of his greatest mentors ... It was like a chapel of what abstract art could be. I remember the day we finished hanging the paintings, I turned to Kirk ...

‘ABSTRACT ART: A GLOBAL HISTORY’ By Pepe Karmel (Thames & Hudson) This large coffee table/art history book announces its singularity with its cover, a painting by Hilma af Klint, whose ...

Big subjects deserve to be rewarded with big books whose authors know how to ... Pepe Karmel uncompromisingly states that ‘The history of abstract art has traditionally privileged white male ...

A sweeping survey of the American Abstract Expressionist ... Rothko “This book brings together the various essays Christopher Rothko has written on his father’s art and his other interests ...

the book conservatively equates abstract art with painting, disregarding a plethora of Australian innovators in video, sculpture and photography that would truly explain where abstract art is today.

When renowned abstract painter Sean Scully wanted to embark ... It marks Scully’s first venture into art aimed at children. “I think fables and fairy stories are very important for children ...

She put her faith in the future. Her reticence was understandable. When af Klint began making abstract paintings in 1906, her departure from realism was unprecedented. It would take almost a ...