"Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea" explores the trio's friendship and artistic evolution.

Thomas Berding, “Pie Chart Fanfare” (2015), oil and Flashe on canvas, 48 x 44 inches (courtesy The Painting Center) In terms of freewheeling, soul-bearing angst, Abstract Expressionism might once ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

MontCarta is an online art brand offering hand-painted oil and acrylic paintings for homes and other interior spaces. Its collection spans abstract art, landscapes, florals, figurative works, animals ...

A woman gazes at two of Hilma af Klint’s abstract works in the Guggenheim’s Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (all images by author) Her story sounds almost too good to be true. Historians now ...

Some might argue that a Jackson Pollock painting looks like something a preschool kid could do, given a canvas and some paint. But abstract art is definitely distinct from the random splatters of a ...

There are so many things you can do with a plain old wall. You can paint it, wallpaper it, cover it up with frames or a big bookshelf. But maybe the best use of an empty wall is to display a really ...

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 ...

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 ...