This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The records of the American Abstract Artists measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1936 through 1983. The records document the founding of the ...

In the 1960s, abstract art, removed from the world of recognizable objects and people, was often held up as the highest form that art could aspire to. But while no one seriously c ...

The pairing of paintings by Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz in Intersection at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects was a stroke of genius. Opening a week after A Planar Garden, curated by Stephen ...

This article is part of a series of interviews by Folasade Ologundudu exploring the evolving conversation about abstract art among Black artists across different generations. With a career spanning ...

A growing number of women abstract painters have had a revival in recent years, after decades of languishing in the shadows of their more famous male peers. The latest to join the crop is Emily Mason ...

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 ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

SONOMA, California — If you were to ask an art lover to name a famous female Abstract Expressionist who lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, there is really only one likely answer: Jay ...

A team of researchers at Columbia University has found that abstract art tends to evoke a more abstract mindset than does representational art. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...

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 ...