Abstract painting gets a smooth water upgrade💧🎨!!

Lost in a sea of infinite content, critic Sarah Swan found herself in the fabric and poured-paint abstractions of Winnipeg’s ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can stir something deep or nothing at all. According to research from Duke ...

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 ...

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 ...

The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...

Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

One work amid the hundreds in a flabbergasting retrospective, “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future,” at the Guggenheim Museum, is so good that it knocked my sense of the show momentarily askew.

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...