Barnett Newman’s 1946 painting Pagan Void stares you down at the start of “L’Âge atomique: Les artistes à l’épreuve de l’histoire” (The Atomic Age: Artists Put to the Test of History), a visual tour ...

Black Fire I perfectly represents Newman’s uncompromising passion for aesthetic, reductive abstract art. Barnett Newman painted Black Fire I in 1961, when he was grieving the death of his ...

Dominique and John de Menil were major patrons of the abstract expressionism movement, collecting works from artists including Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. “In a world cluttered with images ...