Beatriz Milhazes layers Brazilian exuberance over abstractionist rigor. Continue reading
Carioca Contemporary
Abstract Art
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Features From Previous Issues
Anti-Oedipus
The abstract painter Michael Goldberg never felt the need to kill his artistic fathers, and he gladly acknowledged the roots of his originality. Continue reading
The Purist
Abstractionist Tomma Abts lets her paintings paint themselves, and the results are intricate, challenging, and beautiful. Continue reading
Play of Pigment
Whether with a spray gun or a squeegee, Dan Christensen applied paint in a way that no label or theory could encompass. Continue reading
The Poet’s Painter
Intimately connected to the literary world, Joan Mitchell devised an abstract language of her own to make feelings visible. Continue reading
Gleaming the Cube
Often misperceived as second banana to a certain famous Spaniard, Georges Braque co-invented Cubism but didn’t stop there. Continue reading
The Nomadic Brush
John Grillo’s work, rooted in Bay Area abstraction, has followed its own migratory path over the painter’s almost 80-year-long career. Continue reading
Illumination Across the Nation
James Turrell receives not one, not two, but three museum shows this summer, from coast to coast. Continue reading
Taking Chances
Artist El Anatsui talks to Art & Antiques’ Ted Loos about happy accidents, open-ended works and his current show at the Brooklyn Museum. Continue reading
Out of Darkness, Light
Born from the trauma of World War II, a unique kind of painting took form in San Francisco in the ’40s—abstract, expressionist, but totally different from the New York School. Continue reading