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The seller of the 1957 work, “Brown and Blacks in Reds,” was the estate of former Goldman Sachs banker turned art dealer Robert Mnuchin, who paid $6.7 million for the work in 2003. The winning ...

Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their works. Artificial intelligence, the team found, does not follow such implicit ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people perceive and respond to them, according to a new study published in PLOS ...

A sweet video of a tiny girl giving a playful 'class' to a peacock has gone viral on social media. The video is reportedly from South India and has been widely shared across different platforms. In ...

This Sunday, 26 April, marks the 40th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Soviet Ukraine. It is the most serious disaster ever to occur in the nuclear power industry, with ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art smells like flowers ― at least, it will until Sunday. The museum’s annual Art in Bloom, now in its 42 nd year, invites artists, hobbyists and florists to create floral ...

Abstract art has traditionally been dominated by men, but female abstractionists have often been the trailblazers, as a new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts makes abundantly clear.

Grace Hartigan, Cedar Bar, 1951. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 ¾ in. Courtesy of Grace Hartigan Estate, The Levett Collection, and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr “We’re not writing them back into history,” ...

A new art exhibition in Shoreview, Minnesota, is inviting visitors to see art — and maybe themselves — a little differently. Inside the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum, a new chapter is unfolding, ...