The objects — one a hydrocal plaster pile of the small, pockmarked, and scaly balls (“Untitled 5,” 2015, at top), the other a leaning plinth of sleek black marble whose underside is filled with ...

A gleaming abstract sculpture has materialized on the front lawn of the Packing Plant, hub of the Wedgewood-Houston arts district. Standing at a galvanic 60-degree angle, “Bending Normal” is a large, ...

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 ...

Making the connection between leading impressionist painter Claude Monet and abstract art is the main aim of a new exhibition in the Spanish capital. More than 100 works on show since yesterday in ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...

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 ...