Making a spring debut, Hien Le showed at the recent Berlin Fashion Week. Inspired by the work of painter Barnett Newman, Le taps into the fine details for a collection that focuses on proportions and placements. Working with a modest color palette, the...

The work was Voice of Fire , a huge blue canvas bisected with a slash of red, painted by Barnett Newman in the midst of the Vietnam War, especially for the American pavilion at Expo 67 – Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome. More than 20 years later,...

A ruckus had erupted in Parliament because some leather-lunged Progressive Conservatives were outraged Ms. Thomson had spent $1.8-million, more than half the gallery’s acquisition budget, to buy Barnett Newman’s modernist painting, Voice of Fire. After...

Every time I look, I see some nuance I didn't see before." MacKinnon's newest project, the "Grey Series," is an impressive group with subtle variations of hue and design. There are six in the series so far, with another eight expected. "It's a loose...

But the whole thing more or less works. Kind of. Until you see this — the Rothko Chapel with Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk — pixelated to protect the artist’s copyright. (Explanation of “FOP” (Freedom of Panorama) here. Unpixelated Broken Obelisk...

With Bird’’ (1988), is part of a series he initiated after a 1965 visit to the front lines of the war between India and Pakistan. The sparely drawn figure (it could be either a man or a woman) drops head first, entangled with a bird. The ground is...