It’s been 12 years since the passing of Agnes Martin at the age of 92, and still her paintings remain as alive as when they were first conceived. The current retrospective of Martin’s work, now in its ...

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Taos (2014) (All photos by Henry Martin and used with permission) According to popular lore, Agnes Martin, one of the 20th century’s most influential artists, was a recluse ...

A retrospective show can sometimes be so expansive that it can contrive a sense of knowing a lot about an artist without ever delving too deep beneath the surface. The work of Agnes Martin (1912-2004) ...

Agnes Bernice Martin, painter: born Macklin, Saskatchewan 22 March 1912; died Taos, New Mexico 16 December 2004. In June this year, the American painter Agnes Martin shocked the normally unshockable ...

In a moment of dramatic suspense, a slow but determined bidding war broke out over Agnes Martin’s Grey Stone II (1961) during the Emily Fisher Landau Collection sale at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday ...

“I used to look in my mind for the unwritten page If my mind was empty enough I could see it…” —Agnes Martin The Agnes Martin retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which ...

Art authenticators and catalogue raisonné authors can breath a sigh of relief. For a second time, a judge has shut down a set of extensive legal claims brought by a disgruntled dealer against ...

“It’s probably some point in the early 1960s,” Alicja Kwade tells me, setting the scene of a bygone party at which Pace’s founder, Arne Glimcher, had first met the pre-eminent minimalist painter Agnes ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1679): It may be the most amazing thing about the Agnes Martin show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York: From first painting to last, from the bottom of Wright’s spiral to the top, ...

Seeing Agnes Martin’s work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum risks putting those images to a challenge. Martin (1912-2004) placed much of what she drew or painted inside a rectilinear grid. For her, ...

AGNES MARTIN’S best-known paintings feature stripes or grids in muted colors stretched across 6-foot-square canvases. At a recent exhibit dedicated to the Canadian-born artist (1912-2004) at New ...

One of my favorite places to see Agnes Martin’s paintings has always been Dia: Beacon, which has a selection of her earliest and latest works on long-term view, in the company of Bourgeois, Beuys, the ...