Given that American abstract expressionist artists in the mid-20th century are often considered to be the pioneers of combining gesture with abstraction, Korean artist Je Yeoran, 59, who started her ...

Af Klint’s absence from the art historical canon will bring her the distinction of being the earliest-born artist honoured with a show at London’s Serpentine Gallery (Albin Dahlstrˆm) Get the latest ...

16-year-old showcases his talent at The Friday Market in Dubai every week DUBAI: A teenager with special needs is drawing crowds at a community market in Dubai with his artworks. Sahl Riyaz, 16, from ...

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 ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...

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 ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a ...

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 ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...