helen frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler, a “New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions,” has passed away. She was 83.

vivian maier

Vivian Maier, a former nanny who secretly took thousands of photographs, continues her posthumous accent with a show at Steven Kasher.

fausto melotti

Sculpture and Ceramics, at Barbara Mathes Gallery, features Fausto Melotti’s “signature metal sculptures, as well as a selection of his rarely seen polychrome ceramics of the fifties and sixties.”