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

A new exhibition at Shrine gallery in Tribeca challenges the conventional narrative of abstract art’s birth, spotlighting self-taught and outsider artists whose work developed independently of formal ...

Years before Kandinsky, the Swedish artist was painting circles, sunbursts and looping lines – instructed, she believed, by spirits. Now, over 75 years since her death, she is being recognised as a pi ...

A survey at the Walker Art Center celebrates the interdisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk, whose works are grounded in the Lakota philosophy of connectedness. The artist Dyani White Hawk, in her ...

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Abstract art can neither stop war, nor can it oust twisted global leaders. But surely,  art can convey reflections and evoke ...

He was consumed with abstract painting and determined to keep it alive even when it became an unpopular cause among younger artists. Frank Stella in 2015 in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., with “The ...

Does the abstract truly remain abstract art, or does it have form, figures, memory, spaces, and nostalgia woven into it when ...