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‘Whatever the It factor is, she seems to have it’: behind the surging popularity of Francesca Mollett’s mysterious paintings

The 32-year-old London-based artist says she is still working it all out while collectors rush in

Booksreview

New book explores work of underrepresented abstract artist who married portrait with place

Miyoko Ito’s intriguing merger of internal and external space gets proper recognition and a fresh look in this visual feast

A new survey of the Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray lets her community tell the story

The exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia singles the artist out as one of the great painters of the late 20th century

A century of Ellsworth Kelly in pictures

As the American painter's 100th birthday approaches, a look back on his life and legacy in photos

Is the figuration boom over? Gagosian to launch major show of abstract artists across London galleries this summer

Curator Gary Garrels has been given “carte blanche” to include artists not represented by the gallery

New biography and seven-volume catalogue raisonné bring order to the spiritual fascination of Hilma af Klint

These volumes on the Swedish artist will help cement her rightful place as a pioneer of abstract art

The Big Review: Fugues in Colour at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris

An intoxicating summer exhibition focuses on five abstract artists—Megan Rooney, Sam Gilliam, Steven Parrino, Niele Toroni and Katharina Grosse. But the chromatic emphasis denies broader interpretations of their work

David Hockney: 'Abstraction in art has run its course'

"The world is very beautiful, but human beings are quite mad," says the British artist

Jack Youngerman, second-wave abstractionist, has died, aged 93

The Missouri-born artist, known for his shaped canvases and bold patterns, became a leading American abstract painter after moving from Paris to New York

Albert Oehlen: a buyer's guide

With three separate shows of his work taking place in London during Frieze Week, the German artist's market is heating up

Kamal Boullata—Palestinian master of abstract art and Arabic calligraphy—dies, aged 77

Jerusalem-born artist who lived 50 years in exile was a pioneer of the hurufiyya movement and one of the first to write about Palestine's art history

Carlos Cruz-Diez, kinetic art trailblazer who was obsessed with colour, dies aged 95

Venezuelan artist was an important figure in the history of abstraction

In Pictures: the little-known pioneers of 19th- and 20th-century abstraction

Munich exhibition explores the experimental works of Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint and Emma Kunz

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Private View: our pick of November gallery shows

From a two-venue show of Albert Oehlen's abstract works in Paris to a Bridget Riley retrospective in Los Angeles, here are the gallery shows to see

What debt does mid-century American abstract painting owe to Monet?

Exhibition in Paris attempts to draw connections between the Impressionist and Pollock, Rothko and friends—with mixed results

Mary Corseinterview

Quantum leap for Mary Corse as clutch of shows brings overdue recognition

Light and Space artist has exhibitions in London and Beacon, followed by New York retrospective

Abstract art can tell a story—and look good too

History, race and economics are examined in the works of four artists at Art Center/South Florida

Pace Gallery remembers Elizabeth Murray with show of her 1980s work

The late painter’s shaped canvases, including some museum loans, are the subject of a survey in New York

De Stijl in the Netherlands: a round-up

Three excellent exhibitions explore different approaches to Neoplasticism

Torontoarchive

Toronto theatre mogul David Mirvish to stage his own shows

Will the Canadian collector showcase his expansive modern art collection?

From the archive—Frank Stella in 2012 on upcoming exhibitions in Zaragoza and Wolfsburg

Stella discusses a collaboration with the architect Santiago Calatrava in the lead-up to a major retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Interview with Mark Bradford: “It’s a complex conversation and there’s no closure”

The artist on class and identity in South Central LA, working with children and making art in post-Katrina New Orleans

Interview with Ellsworth Kelly: “The freedom of colours in space”

Speaking with the American painter in Basel on colour, geometry, and learning how to see

Interview with Tomma Abts, champion of abstraction

Abts’ small, deeply layered canvases exert a quiet power

Warren Rohrer at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

His work reveals how the vestiges of landscape can linger in abstract work

This summer, the "Kasimir Malevich: Suprematism" exhibition is to travel from Germany to the USA

Organised by the Guggenheim Foundation and the Menil Foundation, works presenting the Russian avant-garde's embrace of abstract art will be displayed

Calder brings the abstract to life at the Guggenheim Bilbao

Five-decades of art will be on display before travelling on to Madrid