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 ...

They may be two of the best-known names in early 20th century modern art, but Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint never actually met. Decades after their deaths in 1944, they are enjoying a posthumous ...

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of one of America’s best-known abstract expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell. The museum has more ...

An exhibit featuring the work of contemporary abstract artist Pamela Beer is on display at Phillips Gallery. The Where You Belong exhibit opens with a reception on April 4 from 5-7 p.m. An artist talk ...

Nothing is more remarkable about the art of the last quarter-century than the diminished role played by abstraction in defining the course of contemporary artistic thought. Where abstraction had not ...

Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.” Jack Whitten, “9.11 ...

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 ...

Years before Jackson Pollock was immortalized in the pages of Life magazine—cigarette dangling from his mouth, flinging paint across a canvas on his studio floor—Janet Sobel created her own unique ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Luis Feito (Spanish, 1929 – 2021), Number 460 - A ( Número 460 - A ), 1963.

Marshall McLuhan once wrote, “The medium is the message.” For Galerie Maximillian owner Albert Sanford, his medium is art. Since 1997, he has consistently shown some of the finest works on paper by ...

Are you familiar with the term "abstract landscapes?" Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron, you say? That's what Shirley Gisi thinks, too, yet she admires some oil paintings of the Southwest that are referred ...