On the 10th anniversary of its opening, the National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights artists who didn't shirk from a critique of power.

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 ...

Colour, shapes and forms – Wassily Kandinsky was a master of abstract art. Now, a new exhibition of more than 70 paintings at ...

Opinions columnists Harper Leary and Brady Dugan debate whether abstract art is actually art.

Abstract art has traditionally been dominated by men, but female abstractionists have often been the trailblazers, as a new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts makes abundantly clear.

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 ...

It has been written about Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) that she honors Lakota culture while expanding its expression through new art forms and innovations. Better stated, she honors ...

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 ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

Featuring 88 massive canvases by multiple generations of abstract artists, a recent exhibition in South Korea offered an unprecedented look into the evolution of Bangladeshi abstract art ...