Monochrome

A daringly creative risktaker, Leslie’s displays of his strong, muscular body, in your face and standing its ground even as it seems about to break...

Yaddo is a retreat for artists located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by...

“For most people reality is the confirmation of their expectations. These pictures…offer alternatives”1 wrote Alfred Leslie of his meditative body of black and white watercolors...

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has awarded $3.9 million in grants to 125 artists and 25 nonprofit organizations—including museums, art schools, and residency programs—around the world. Alongside...

Mike Womack, Alfred Leslie and Salvatore Scarpitta in this week’s Fine Art

In celebration of the publication of Judith E. Stein’s Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, the first-ever biography of...

From postcards of ballerinas to digital shots where the performers barely look human, the art of snapping dancers has had a dramatic evolution Barbara Morgan...

A major Aaron Siskind retrospective 'Aaron Siskind - L’Autre Réalité Photographique' is on view at Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier, France through February 23, 2015.

American photographer Barbara Morgan (1900–1992) is most well known for her photographs of luminaries in American modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s such as...

Frederick Sommer (1905–1999) explored an unusually broad array of subjects ranging from disorienting landscapes and macabre aspects of the natural world to surreal arrangements of...

In a 1951 essay, the artist and art critic Elaine de Kooning described Aaron Siskind as a “painter’s photographer.” Over 60 years later he remains...