How the Arabic Alphabet Inspired Abstract Art . ... 1950s–1980s” at the Grey Art Gallery at ... a way of making Western painting her own. The bustling blue and red swooshes in an untitled 1978 ...

His tools are 18 high-contrast abstract paintings in acrylic and ink—one per spread but clearly paired—and a series of attendant ... interlocking shapes in black, blue, gray, red, and ...

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

Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art. By the time she painted this mysterious work in 1975, Miyoko Ito — the ...