A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at Shrine gallery in Tribeca challenges the conventional narrative of abstract art’s birth, spotlighting self-taught and outsider artists whose work developed independently of formal ...

Outside avant-garde artistic circles, the creation of The Abstract Group, in Pittsburgh, in late 1944, was greeted with something less than fanfare. In a contemporaneous installment of his column ...

For a broad swath of people, an art fair is not a place of wheeling and dealing but a place to look at art. It’s always an experience to wander the aisles and feel the jadedness subside, the LED glare ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

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 ...

Sheldon Harvey, "Convergence" (2022), oil on canvas, 59 x 84 inches (all images courtesy Modern West Fine Art) SALT LAKE CITY — Utah has never quite assimilated into the romantic lore of cowboys and ...

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...