You may have seen the photo before. It captures a group of 14 men and one woman clustered together in a sparse room, staring straight at the camera with scowls of varying intensity. The painter ...

Contemporary visual artist Julie Mehretu is renowned for her large-scale abstract paintings and multilayered landscapes which explore the themes of history and globalism. She’s using her platform to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Archives of American Art acquired the American Abstract Artists records in three installments by Presidents Emeriti of the American Abstract ...

Getty Research Journal, No. 11 (2019), pp. 17-38 (22 pages) Richard Heckman, “First Surrealists Were Cavemen” (review of the exhibition Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa), Newark (NJ) ...

An abstract painting by Indianapolis artist Kristen Kloss, who will be showing her work along with another artist, Barbara Thomas, in a two-person abstract show throughout March at the Southside Art ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression. Howardena Pindell, a ...

Oct. 6—A rising influence in the arts community, the Taos Abstract Artists Collective is opening its third annual fall show at the Taos Center for the Arts. Slated for Friday, Oct. 11, through ...

Abstract art is often seen as the opposite of realism, but in truth it forms the foundation of all strong realistic artwork.

Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to represent the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 88. The American abstract artist died at home in Washington, DC, on Saturday, David ...

What happens when the number of talented artists exceeds the amount of gallery space to exhibit them? You take down your own art collection to free up walls for others, open up your home and invite ...