January 8, 2010 – 2:32 pm
In the final installment of the WHAT STATE ABSTRACTION series, Marc Handelman and Cheryl Donegan discuss the resurgence of abstract painting in the early 2000s.
December 18, 2009 – 1:44 pm

In this penultimate installment, Caroll Dunham and Keltie Ferris discuss “bitchiness” in Abstract painting.
November 24, 2009 – 12:55 pm

Abstract painting is all over New York this fall. Managing Editor Nick Stillman rounds up some vintage and recent BOMB interviews that “tackle the eternally thorny topic.”
By Nick Stillman
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Posted in From The Archive
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Also tagged abstraction, Alex Hubbard, and Wade Guyton, Art, Brice Marden, Carroll Dunham, Eileen Quinlan, Jacqueline Humphries, Joan Mitchell, Jörg Immendorff, Julie Mehretu, Mary Heilmann, Michael Goldberg, Nate Lowman, Nick Stillman, Pat Steir, Phaidon, Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Tuttle, Robert Mangold, Ross Bleckner, Steve DiBenedetto, Terry Winters, Thomas Nozkowski, Walead Beshty
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November 20, 2009 – 2:45 pm

Earlier this year I posed a question to 12 admired painters: “What is the current state of abstraction?” The following is a collection of their responses, spanning the absurd, the analytical, and the visionary, all linked by an undercurrent of curiosity for the unknown.
By Jackie Saccoccio
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Posted in What State Abstraction
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Also tagged Amy Sillman, Carroll Dunham, Dan Walsh, Eric Wendel, Eva Lundsager, Jackie Saccoccio, Jason Fox, Jessica Dickinson, Keltie Ferris, Marc Handelman, Painting, Philip Taffe, Steve DiBenedetto, What State Abstraction
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September 21, 2009 – 3:41 pm

Wendy White’s paintings are some of the most dynamic and edgy abstractions being made today. When I was first introduced to her work back in 2005, they were raw, brash, confident—everything that the art world was not at the time.