Invented by the critic Jules Langsner in 1959, the term “hard-edge painting” represented a kind of geometric or Classical painting in which the shapes within the painterly format were clearly defined ...

What’s the deal with hard-edge painting, anyway? As Plus Gallery’s Ivar Zeile notes, “Some people take it for granted. They look at it and say, ‘How hard can that be? Where is the relationship to life ...

Against Nature: Hard Edge Abstraction. Installation shot. (all images courtesy Graham Gallery) The Graham gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has an edifying show titled Against Nature: Hard ...

Although it makes them writhe, they are called “hard edge” painters. Among artists of the New York school, the term separates them from the earlier, fast-draw action abstractionists, who painted with ...

Seeking to plump up the art historical heft of a largely forgotten American master, “Burgoyne Diller and Hard-Edge Abstraction: Underpinnings and Continuity” at the Spanierman Gallery would have us ...

FRIDAY, ONE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S MOST POPULAR ARTISTS LIFE WORK IS NOW ON DISPLAY. THE HARD EDGE AND THE SOFT LINE EXHIBITION RECENTLY OPENED AT THE BLOWING ROCK ART AND HISTORY MUSEUM. THIS TELLS THE ...

The residency program awards 17 visual artists a year of rent-free studio space in New York City. Applications are due by January 15. A collaboration with the Kohler Co. pottery and foundry, this ...

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection printout, 2008. Foresta, Merry A., "A Life in Art: Alma Thomas 1891-1978," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of ...