The American painter Helen Frankenthaler (born 1928) was a central figure in the development of color-field abstraction during the late 1950s and the 1960s. Helen Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, in New York City. As a painter her earliest...

The Guggenheim Museum staged an exhibit of artist Helen Frankenthaler works between 1956 to 1959. The organizers of the event erred by cramming large canvases into small exhibition spaces and focusing only on the painter's oeuvres on the latter part of the 1950s, during...

In her marvelous memoirs of life with Picasso, Frangoise Gilot preserves a priceless anecdote about the treachery of inadvertent legible forms in art. It comes from the time when Braque and Picasso were coinventing Cubism, and with it, they hoped, an entirely new...

Few people play the zipper quite like Ken Butler. Tucking a microphone down his pants, the Brooklyn-based musician counter- rhythmically zips and unzips his fly to a soundtrack of pre-recorded beats. He plays other instruments: His head doubles as a bongo drum, and he “scratches”...

Few people play the zipper quite like Ken Butler. Tucking a microphone down his pants, the Brooklyn-based musician counter- rhythmically zips and unzips his fly to a soundtrack of pre-recorded beats. He plays other instruments: His head doubles as a bongo drum, and he “scratches”...