Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

Representational art became a dynamic, driving force in the art market as the world was leaving the era of COVID in the 2020s ...

Before artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning shot to fame, Janet Sobel was gaining ground as an important abstract painter — but largely disappeared from the art world.

No sooner did abstract art—particularly abstract painting—make its initial appearance on the international art scene in the second decade of the twentieth century than the doubts about its future ...

Abstract art from a new angle: a promise which the brand-new privately funded Museum Reinhard Ernst has delivered on since June 2024. Showing works by international greats such as Helen ...

Brain scans show that viewing abstract art elicits greater variability in brain activity, particularly within the default mode network, compared to representational art. This suggests that ...

O nce abstract art was thought too odd and ugly to last out a season; now people speculate about what it will have meant “when it dies.” Yet abstract art does not die easily. Top U.S. artists ...

Abstract art had to be attempted; it had its bootleggers, too, namely the dealers. But as was suggested by the present writer in "The Caliph's Design," it is a (fantastic) branch of architecture ...

IT is not easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, ...

Biloxi native Dusti Bongé is known for capturing southern culture within her paintings. She’s known for her unique style ...

Abstract art of high merit has an extraordinary capability and inherent tendency to catch hold of the original thought ...