Editor's Note: Travel and accommodations for the author were provided by the Baltimore Museum of art. It only takes a few moments of being in the first gallery at the preview for the Joan Mitchell ...

When it comes to an artist like Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), one could argue that she has been, in recent months, the beneficiary of an overdue art historical reckoning. The postwar painter, known for ...

Visual consumption today often puts a premium on hyper-proximity. Television and camera technology allow viewers to fixate on images down to every last pore and wrinkle, while the framing on phones ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Some merely canonize, while others—like those of ...

There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities ...

As part of their contemporary art auction in May, Sotheby’s New York will be selling four Abstract Expressionist works by Joan Mitchell. The group of paintings, said Lucius Elliott, Sotheby’s head of ...

An intriguing element of Mitchell’s work is how her background informed it. She was a championship skater at age seventeen, and you can feel that lyrical as well as muscular movement in her paintings.

Christie’s is bringing two more major works to its 20th-century evening sale in New York next month that are each expected to break auction records for the artists, Richard Diebenkorn and Joan ...

The fact that Mitchell’s creations appear to be working themselves back into the fluctuating core of auction trends is welcome, especially considering the impact of her artistic vision. Noël was ...

Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly way, another is the fawning, ...