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The article examines the life and work of the German artist Albert Oehlen. Particular focus is given to his artistic techniques and to his work in abstract painting. Additional topics discussed include his friendship with the artist Martin Kippenberger, his use of printed fabric in his artwork and how his work was inspired by punk music and ethos.

Reports on the exhibition of Max Gimblett's abstract paintings at the Haines Gallery in San Francisco, California. Presentation of the artworks produced throughout his 40-year-long career; Recapitulation of the earlier phases of his work; Influences in his works; Techniques that distinguish Gimblett's works from the others.

The article focuses on the Allan Stone Gallery's show of artist Alfred Leslie's abstract paintings, collages and prints from the 1950s and the first years of the 1960s. Leslie is best known as a realist painter, and he has worked in that style since 1962. His heroically scaled portraits and narrative tableaux have positioned him, along with his contemporaries Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and Philip Guston, as a key player in the revival of American figurative painting. Leslie's geometry forces you to give the paintings a straightforward compositional read. You must stick with a part-to-part, part-to-whole examination, rather than having the painting swirl away into an easily scanned allover field.

The author dreams of an ideal world, where a museum of artist Philip Guston would exist, in which a generous selection of Guston's paintings and drawings would be permanently on view. The author do not feel this way about every artist whose work he admires. The author feels a constant, almost physical hunger for Guston's paintings, particularly the late ones, and rejoice in each chance he have to see some of them. This need is so keen that even as he is immersed in looking at a Guston canvas, he find it impossible to forget that the opportunity is fleeting, that all too soon the show will close or the museum will rehang its collection, and he will once again be forced to live in a Guston-less world. Guston has been one of the main influences on American painting, both abstract and figurative in the last quarter century.

The article presents an artist's description of his experience with the art of abstract painting. It says abstract artists discard figure and nature and arrive at a core. Since no tried or tested criteria exists in abstract painting, abstract artists find, discover, reinvent or recreate anything which constitutes a viable art form. The author notes that in abstract painting, there is an eye at the end of the artist's pencil which is capable of penetrating a veil or thickness which initially blocks the personal general-purpose eye of the artist.

Focuses on the abstractions of artist Vasily Kandinsky. Profile on the artist; Education and training; Career highlights; Style of presenting images in abstracted forms.