American painting
Wayne Thiebaud, painter of lush desserts and disorienting cityscapes, has died, aged 101
Though he was often lumped in with the Pop artists who also rose to prominence in the 1960s, Thiebaud’s sensibility was distinctive, his appeal uniquely enduring
John Singleton Copley double portrait lovingly restored, pock marks and all
So-called imperfections laid bare at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
New biography highlights how Philip Guston risked his art-world standing and livelihood
The book by Robert Storr delves into the American painter's dealings with Klansmen and how he wanted “to make paintings you couldn’t count money in front of”
A Southern belle with a range of painterly styles is bought to the fore in this thorough book
Dusti Bongé was an artist who lived and worked in the Deep South and who was a versatile, if little known, artist
An Interview with Frank Stella on upcoming exhibitions and collaborations: Being Frank in Zaragoza
Frank Stella is showing a major collaboration with architect Santiago Calatrava in northern Spain
Basquiat: his market and his legacy
Beyeler exhibition aims to place the artist, who died at 27, high in the canon
Interview with Chuck Close on how his grandma’s crochet inspired his artistic vision
On the eve of a show at PaceWildenstein in New York, the veteran US artist discusses the importance of the year he spent with his grandmother when he was eleven
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
Martin Summers reveals his Jean-Michel Basquiat collection
Treasures from behind the secret door
Interview with Malcolm Morley: Paintings about the act of painting
After 50 years, Morley is still fascinated by the potential of the medium and is not too proud to learn from a “watercolour holiday” on an English barge with amateur artists
Interview with James Rosenquist on his month in Manhattan
Four exhibitions devoted to the Pop pioneer open this November, including a retrospective at the Guggenheim
The art of allusion: Interview with Damian Loeb
Damian Loeb’s work relies on the viewer’s recognition of the visual sources that he quotes liberally
Interview with Robert Ryman: Painting is for pleasure
Ryman has been painting white on white for more than 50 years. He talks about how his paintings work and which shade of white he uses
Interview with Steven Assael: Painting, the fullness of experience
The foremost figurative painter of his generation, talks about his passionate commitment to the art
Interview with Inka Essenhigh: "The world is big and time is short”
Essenhigh talks about her switch from enamel to oil, the difficulties of making pretty pictures and the ominous undertow of her paintings
Taken over by the doodle: Interview with Carroll Dunham
Like the Surrealists, Dunham believes that his unconscious dominates him as he works
Heartache and the American dream: Dox Thrash at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Thrash deserves to be remembered for more than just his technical inventions
Now seventy-two, Frankenthaler describes the experience and occasional joy of painting abstractions
“Making a message; giving a message”