When Jamie Franklin became curator of the Bennington Museum in 2005, he started connecting with artists’ estates and living artists linked to Bennington College’s midcentury heyday. Founded in 1932 as ...

Retro design trends are everywhere you look these days. Grandma-inspired decor, polka dot everything, and butcher block countertops are just the start. There are plenty of 1960s design trends that are ...

In the 1960s a group of avant-garde painters began to push abstraction in new directions, leading to the emergence of several divergent styles. Helen Frankenthaler applied thinned acrylic washes to ...

The 1960s were an iconic decade in many regards—interior design included. Characterized by bright colors, bold patterns, and fluid shapes, the '60s design aesthetic is instantly recognizable. And ...

The artist’s earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement’s signal achievements. By Roberta Smith In the early ...