New York’s spring auctions are expected to fetch at least $1.7 billion amid redoubled collector confidence in art values.

Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, sometimes also some smears of paint thrown in ...

Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

After coming of age in the Civil Rights movement, Lovelace O’Neal forged a singular path in American painting that belatedly ...

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 ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

Abstract art is what's needed as a response to the violence around us. And I think Cy Twombly's art is ultimately the most powerful history painting of our time. Why is abstraction suddenly flavour of ...

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 ...