At the heart of "Encounters" are the unprecedented abstract paintings and films each of them made in the early 1920s.
The other masterpiece on the first floor is a vast triptych that is the grandest manifestation of Stingel's silver abstract paintings.
Today, local artist Souad Attabi makes no secret of the sources for her abstract paintings depicting Berber talismans, hung at the Bab Sebaa Gallery.
Large abstract paintings by Spanish artist Miquel Barceo are on display until 29 July, their thick texture belying the artist's background as a sculptor who works with metals.
Some American modernists at the time, like Hartley, were directly engaged with Europe's progressive artistic circles (although, at the Armory, Davies unfortunately chose not to display Hartley's more abstract paintings).
The inside of this sleek Lindsay Newman design looks more like the lobby of the W Hotel than the usual oak-paneled clubhouse: The ceiling soars overhead and abstract paintings hang in minimalist rooms.
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Amir Bar-Lev directed this disquieting documentary, centered on the family of Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old girl who became a media sensation in 2004, when her abstract paintings began to sell for thousands of dollars.
Earlier this year it was the venue for a public talent show where Libyans went to show off their skills at everything from freestyle football, abstract paintings and portraits of Hollywood and MTV celebrities, to singing about Islam.
Pictures of the prime minister sipping champagne in front of abstract paintings in London, may not be quite what his spin doctors had in mind, at a time when Labour is trying to shore up its support in its working-class heartlands in northern England.
Beyond the conference room, Ismail Zayer sits in his office, with abstract Iraqi paintings hanging on the walls.
But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.
At first with such works as "Essex" (1960), a 9-foot-wide wall piece in which Chamberlain uses his almost-trademark found color of crumpled auto-body parts he was suspected of operating within the boundaries of Pop Art, of having more in common with Andy Warhol's silk-screened car crashes than with Willem de Kooning's Abstract Expressionist paintings.
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The works on display range from abstract and figurative paintings to video and performance art.
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This exhibit of abstract yet graphic sculptures and paintings is a stark commentary on drug violence by resident artist Emiliano Gironella.
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