For most of the last four decades, Pattern and Decoration art seemed wonderfully outré to many observers, an eccentric violation of the standards and norms of serious painting and sculpture that was ...

Installation view of Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro (left) “Personal Appearance #2,” (1979) collage and acrylic on canvas, 60 × 50 1/4 in. (152.4 × 127.6 cm); (right) “Peridot ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Goes Big and Goes Winslow Homer in a Splendid Show A Catfight in a Snake Pit in Philly’s Art Museum NRPLUS Conference Call with Meir Soloveichik and Rich Lowry Dracula ...

Judy Ledgerwood discusses her exhibition Far From the Tree in the context of the 40th anniversary of the Pattern and Decoration movement. To start our conversation, I asked Ledgerwood to flip through ...

With their floral patterns, curlicues, plaids, feathers, glitter and undulating lines, the 97 works in a dizzying exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) read like an emphatic rejection of ...

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The first large look back at an irreverent style and its brief yet prescient life. By Roberta Smith ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — What is art history made of? Everything that happened within a given ...

"This catalogue is being published in conjunction with the exhibition Pattern and Decoration: an Ideal vision in American Art, 1975-1985, organized by the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, October 27,2007 ...

The new MOCA Los Angeles exhibition, With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, is a maximalist delight to behold. Replete with feathers, glitter, embroidery, quilts, wallpaper, ...

More than what meets the eye : The continued relevance and legacy of pattern and decoration / Michael Duncan -- Pattern and decoration and feminism / Anne Swartz -- Pattern and decoration ...