Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

For the first time, Gagosian has planned such a large London show that the works have taken over both of the gallery’s Mayfair locations in Grosvenor Hill and Davies Street. The additional space is ...

WASHINGTON, DC — By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles ...

EPHRAIM - The Hardy Gallery features large-scale, contemporary abstract paintings in its fourth and final exhibit of the season when "Surfaces" opens with an opening reception scheduled to take place ...

Robert Rector has spent half a century applying intellect and intuition to his canvases. Described as "a visual poet," Robert Rector has spent half a century applying intellect and intuition to his ...

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 ...

ART, CONTEMPORARY Contemporary art is a term used for art produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. It is also referred to as the art of today or at times, modern art.

Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from the ...

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 ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...

Following is a transcript of the video: Narrator: Modern art is expensive. From completely white canvases to simple, abstract colors, these seemingly basic works can cost you millions. So what makes ...

Galleries on the museum’s third floor where modern and contemporary artworks are displayed, including the Lincoln Gallery, temporarily closed to the public on July 12, 2021, to make way for new ...