Mexico City has emerged as a thriving centre of contemporary art. "Escultura Social" features recent work by a group of artists whose influence has already extended far beyond Mexico and focuses on how they have contributed to an international dialog...

Lee Lozano (1930-1999) brought a potent voice to the 1960s New York art scene. Equipped with an extraordinary intellectual reach and demonstrating an unusually expressive and mature sexuality, Lozano's art, which includes paintings, drawings, and con...

In 1968, artist Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) began painting in what would become her celebrated and trademark style – coloured dots on gridded steel plates and canvas. Focusing on the single and multi-plate pieces that began in 1968 and culminated in...

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime,...

While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed "Arti...

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist. When Calder became "Calder" – well known for his signature mobiles and s...