At the National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Making Their Mark: Works From the Shah Garg Collection” spans works from 1946 ...

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 ...

Lynch Fragments, a series of abstract steel sculptures he created starting in 1963, evoked the long, devastating history of ...

Swedish artist, now regarded as predecessor to Kandinsky and Mondrian, died thinking world was not ready for her work ...

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 ...

Adopting uncommon materials like latex foam and wire rope, these artists, who were often overlooked, are gaining new attention. By Nazanin Lankarani As a graduate student of sculpture in the 1970s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commuters along Speer Boulevard in downtown Denver will notice something different. Gerald Cross' 1975 untitled geometric sculpture consisting of orange-painted steel and blue plexiglass has returned ...

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 ...