For roughly four years beginning in 2011, the art market’s insatiable appetite for a particular kind of painting—immortalized by critic Walter Robinson under the rubric of Zombie Formalism ...

Zombie Formalism, in other words, was in this view a new kind of court painting, ... But art flippers had an added advantage: the pump-and-dump, ...

Max Kozloff, a critic who influentially collapsed the divide between art and politics that was erected by formalists who came before him, died on April 6 at 91. His death was announced this week ...

Don Wilkinson - Art Beat: Contrasting works of formalist, ... The last vestigial exhibitions of both organizations in their current form are both tight and well-considered, big art in small spaces.

Deans, who coined the term ‘assimilated formalism’ to describe his art style, which features prominently in the seven pieces he sent to Canada, ...