LEAH DICKERMAN: Rauschenberg said that the idea of making an erased drawing came out of his work on the White Paintings. He asked himself the question, could you make a drawing solely out of erasing?

Although recognized for exploring a broad array of materials and motifs, Louise Bourgeois is perhaps best known for sculptures of spiders, ranging in size from a brooch of four inches to monumental ...

Der Blaue Reiter was formed in 1911 in Munich as a loose association of painters led by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they ...

Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France, on December 31, 1869. He embarked on a career in law, but took up painting while recovering from appendicitis. By 1892 he began an ...

Curator, Leah Dickerman: This silkscreen includes an image of John F. Kennedy, whom Rauschenberg greatly admired. After the assassination, Rauschenberg was uncertain whether he should use the image.

The earliest print technique, woodcut first appeared in China in the ninth century. Arriving in Europe around 1400, it was originally used for stamping designs onto fabrics, textiles, or playing cards ...

Portraiture underwent a dramatic transformation in the modern era, perhaps most definitively in the hands of the Expressionists. Rather than flattering the sitter or focusing on external appearances, ...

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Curator, T. Lax: Before you is a zine made by the artist, Kandiss Williams, who runs Cassandra Press in Los Angeles. It's a reprint of the essay "Venus in Two Acts" written by cultural historian ...

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