In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...
Regarding the Feb. 17 "Agnes" cartoon by Tony Cochran, in which a character defines abstract art as the work of people who can't draw: This is an untrue and unfair characterization of a rich tradition ...