Abstraction’s reputation has been on a roller-coaster ride. At the end of the twentieth century, it was widely believed that abstraction was dead; today it’s bigger than ever. One reason for that: ...

The Contemporary Editions sale returned this month, showcasing prints and multiples by some of art’s biggest names. Now live for bidding through January 30, 2025, a dynamic range of abstract works in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When she was around nine or 10 years old, Jill Ahlberg Yohe visited the National Gallery of Art. She recalls staring at a painting ...

Startup Art Projects and Sofie Contemporary Arts are pleased to present "Between Logic and Light: Material and Meaning in Abstraction", a group exhibition featuring six contemporary artists whose ...

SALISBURY – Abstract expressionism is a long way from its mid-century origins, but Salisbury Academy eighth graders got a taste of the seminal modern art movement during the first week of January.

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. is pleased to announce Abstraction in Fiber and Paint, 1976-1989, focused on seven women rethinking fine art and craft. This exhibition of twenty works looks at both painters ...

David Diao, "BN: The Paintings in Scale (Blue)" (1991), acrylic and vinyl on canvas, 78 x 132 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York, photos Zeshan Ahmed) David Diao loves ...

From left to right: “Untitled (Wall with Doorway),” 1966, Alfred Young Man; “Crow Stripes No. 7,” 1967, Carl Tubby; “Nez Perce IV,” 1966, Carl Tubby Credit: Brian Chilson Just as Indigenous scholars ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

The American abstract artist Arthur Dove once asked, rhetorically, “Have you ever tried to think how music over the radio would look?” “Me and the Moon,” the heart-stoppingly beautiful painting in the ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Nature (1849) Let us look at this American artist first. How did he ever get to America, to start with? Why isn’t he a ...