When art world luminary Ellsworth Kelly died in December at the age of 92, his obituaries described him as an artist who rejected the very idea of art as self-expression. Now a new study by scholar ...

Arts institutions all over the world have been breaking out their hard-edge abstraction canvases to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late painter Ellsworth Kelly. The Edward Hopper House in Nyack ...

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Ellsworth Kelly Last Paintings and Ellsworth Kelly Plant Drawings, the next exhibitions in his galleries at 522 and 526 West 22nd Street. The nine canvases in ...

A bubble-gum wrapper crumpled on a sidewalk. Shadows crosshatching a sunlit stair. Sprouting leaves. A gauzy scarf. Such everyday images sparked ideas for many of Ellsworth Kelly’s brightly colored ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — Even though abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly’s final home and studio was in Spencertown, N.Y. — a modest distance of some 70 miles as the crow flies from his Newburgh, N.Y., ...

Opening: Thursday, February 5, 2009 from 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. Matthew Marks is pleased to announce, Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954 - 1962, the next exhibition in his gallery at 526 West 22nd Street. This ...

Ellsworth Kelly, “Cyclamen IV” (1964–65), transfer lithograph on Rives BFK paper 35-1/4 x 24-1/8 in. (Norton Simon Museum, Gift of the Artist, 1969 ...

New York Mayor Eric Adams has officially proclaimed today, May 31, Ellsworth Kelly Day. The special designation comes after a coalition of local institutions—the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum ...

At the SOM-designed Lever House in Midtown, several of Kelly’s sculptures are interspersed within the courtyards, lobbies, and public-facing corridors to mark the inaugural exhibition at the ...

Prudence Peiffer’s “The Slip” is a group biography of six visual artists and the work they created on the edge of Manhattan in the 1950s and ’60s. By Walker Mimms Jack Shear, the widower of the artist ...

Ellsworth Kelly, who turned 90 in May, probably deserves a big sheet cake — that is, a giant retrospective — somewhere. But he'll have to settle for something smaller. A handful of tiny, cupcake-like ...

Sure, Tom Turkey looms large this month, but other highlights include a magic show with Muppets, Patti Smith and “Horses,” and wrestling drag queens. By Erik Piepenburg The shrunken staff remains ...