WASHINGTON, DC — By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

EPHRAIM - The Hardy Gallery features large-scale, contemporary abstract paintings in its fourth and final exhibit of the season when "Surfaces" opens with an opening reception scheduled to take place ...

The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art has a new building and new location on the campus of Virginia Wesleyan University.

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 ...

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

Great art can be found in surprising places. Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan proves that. Almost 1700 miles west of Toronto and nearly 1000 miles east of Vancouver, Remai Modern opened in ...

Following is a transcript of the video: Narrator: Modern art is expensive. From completely white canvases to simple, abstract colors, these seemingly basic works can cost you millions. So what makes ...

A new exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris spotlights 300 of the sculptor’s groundbreaking kinetic artworks, large-scale public sculptures, paintings, drawings and wire portraits The ...