“Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings” is a sight to behold—but it also has to be experienced. The nine works showcased represent the final paintings that Kelly made before his passing in 2015, capping off ...

For fans of Ellsworth Kelly, today is a day to celebrate. In honor of what would have been Kelly’s 96th birthday, the United States Postal Service has released a set of 20 new postage stamps bearing ...

“Austin” is the legendary artist’s first building. It’s easy to sigh at people who take selfies in front of art. (*Clutches pearls* How gauche!) But in front of Ellsworth Kelly’s last, posthumously ...

Ellsworth Kelly planning his exhibition for Blum Helman Gallery. Photograph by Jack Shear, 1988. © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation © Jack Shear, Courtesy of Ellsworth ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — Even though abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly’s final home and studio was in Spencertown, N.Y. — a modest distance of some 70 miles as the crow flies from his Newburgh, N.Y., ...

When art world luminary Ellsworth Kelly died in December at the age of 92, his obituaries described him as an artist who rejected the very idea of art as self-expression. Now a new study by scholar ...

Ellsworth Kelly’s work, radical in its reduction of line and color, seems conceived of an immaculate eye. Indeed, Kelly eschewed mere composition. “I realized I didn’t want to compose pictures, I ...

At the SOM-designed Lever House in Midtown, several of Kelly’s sculptures are interspersed within the courtyards, lobbies, and public-facing corridors to mark the inaugural exhibition at the ...

Long before his death last year, at the age of ninety-two, Ellsworth Kelly had secured a place for himself in the pantheon of American art. The list of major museums that do not hold his work in their ...

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has finished the construction of Austin, the last project of artist Ellsworth Kelly to be realized before his death at the end of 2015.

Interior rendering of Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin”(2015) (All images courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art) Move out of the way, Houston, with your fancy Rothko Chapel. Austin’s fix’n to get one of its own ...

Ellsworth Kelly at his Spencertown studio in 2011. Jack Shear/Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation is celebrating the centennial of the artist’s birth by donating $2.75 million ...