Time Trip Part Two #8,” 2003 (acrylic on rag paper, mounted on plexiglass), by Alvin Loving In the hands of their creators, African-American women living during the slave era, quilts were often used ...

A new exhibition at the National Arts Club in NYC spotlights work from the 1950s and ’60s by the late Abstract Expressionist painter Libbie Mark. Admission is free. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Mark ...

German artist Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important—if not the most important—artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His distinctive, large-format abstract paintings and ...

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers to a ...

Love can be an extremely powerful motivator. For more than a decade beginning in the mid-1950s, the Russian artist Oleg Prokofiev hid his abstract works in the hope of receiving permission from the ...

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 ...

On the paper roll that serves as a guest book at the Phoenix in Waterbury, one visitor wrote, “Nice gallery! So trusting!” Indeed, visiting an exhibition in the high-ceilinged room can be a solitary, ...

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 ...

Once a quiet niche in Nepal’s art world, abstract works are gathering a certain following. Art aficionados and collectors have embraced the freedom this art form provides, making the canvas a ...