Frank Stella
Frank Stella
One of the leading exponents of abstract art for the past half-century, Stella died on 4 May 2024, aged 87. The landmark "Black Paintings" series marked him out as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured works on shaped canvas, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and architecture
Remembering Frank Stella, one of the leading abstract artists of his generation
The American artist married complex with simple, from Minimalist canvases to “maximalist” sculptures
Frank Stella, a painter's painter and one of the leading abstract artists of his generation, has died, aged 87
His landmark "Black Paintings" series marked Stella as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured pieces on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and work with architects
From the archive | A 2009 studio visit with the king of the one-liner Frank Stella in the fallout from the global financial crash
The artist reveals that his cavernous upstate New York studio includes a Formula 1 racing car that had "drifted in", and is packed with art following the recent cancellation of two exhibitions in Europe: "It's not good"
From the archive: Frank Stella in 1999 — 'I started, and I think I am going to finish, as a committed abstractionist'
The American artist talked about working to commission, exploring the creative tension between figurative and abstract art, his debt to artists of the past and his views on artists of today
From the archive: When Frank Stella made an NFT in 2022
Stella’s motivations for minting a non-fungible token could be the solidification of his legacy as a painter’s painter
The Week in Art podcast | Artists’ stories from Gaza, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view
How Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has changed the lives of artists, plus an insight into working with Stella and a highlight from a new show at the Garden Museum
Frank Stella's first ever Black Painting could smash record at Art Basel in Miami Beach
The work, "Delta" (1958), is coming to the market for the first time in years, with an asking price of $45m
From Frank Stella to the quilters of Gee's Bend: how Artists Rights Society is working in the world of NFTs
An NFT drop with Stella was the debut for ARS's digital platform, Arsnl. Now it brings bold patterns to the blockchain with a show of NFTs generated by the coder artist Anna Lucia working with the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama
Art historian Barbara Rose—Minimalism cheerleader and champion of women artists—has died, aged 84
Her memoir, entitled The Girl Who Loved Artists, is yet to be published
From the archive: Frank Stella in 2017— a huge show at Art Basel in Miami Beach highlights artist’s sense of ‘free play’
Studio materials and working archive are the focus of a 300-piece exhibition at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
Frank Stella’s decline: on the artist's Whitney Museum retrospective
Critical conviction regarding Stella's work has fallen with the quality of the art
From the archive: Frank Stella in 2015—on his Whitney retrospective
As a major exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the US artist reflects on how beauty is “a given” in art—and how, after nearly 60 years, he is still pursuing “the problems of painting”
Art enters the third dimension as 3-D printing goes mainstream
Assessing the impact of technological advances in 3-D printers and scanners on the art world, and what it means for the future
From the archive—Frank Stella in 2012 on upcoming exhibitions in Zaragoza and Wolfsburg
Stella discusses a collaboration with the architect Santiago Calatrava in the lead-up to a major retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Interview with dealer Bernard Jacobson on his change of taste and direction
From Great British to stellar American art
Minimalist masterpieces on show in Sydney
The Drill Hall Gallery is showing works by Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, among others