Josef Albers (1888–1976) was part of the select group of artists who were commissioned in the 1960s to create original works to beautify RIT’s “new” Henrietta campus, which opened in 1968. These art ...
“Manhattan,” by Josef Albers, hung above commuters passing through the MetLife Building for decades. Now, a replica towers over the lobby in its place. By Nancy Coleman Hundreds of interlocking panels ...
It wasn’t his art history degree from Columbia University that would lead Nicholas Fox Weber, now the Executive Director of the Albers Foundation, into the art world. It was romance. Or, more ...
Perhaps it’s just the zeitgeist, but many in the art world also credit this resurgence to the diligent work of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut, about 20 minutes away from ...
I was introduced to the teachings of Josef Albers in a color theory course my senior year of art school at Boston University. My professor Richard Raiselis had studied under Albers during his time at ...
“Josef Albers/Ken Price,” a thrilling exhibition at the Brooke Alexander Gallery in SoHo, can make you feel as if your eyes were attached to a bigger, more perceptive brain. It brings together the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Running the estate of a famed artist is not for the faint-hearted. Stresses go well beyond overseeing ...
Josef Albers, “Color Study of Grays” (not dated). Oil on cardstock with varnish, 17.9 x 25.7 cm. © 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights ...
Josef Albers began using glass as a primary medium, fusing together pieces he salvaged from the Weimar, Germany, garbage dump, when he started studying at Bauhaus in 1920 at the age of 32. His ...
Helen Frankenthaler once noted that you can’t “prove” beauty. “It’s there as a fact,” she said on Charlie Rose’s show in 1993. Koller’s June auctions were spectacularly successful, with seven lots ...