At Akar Prakar Gallery in Delhi, paintings of stylised Ajanta’s ancient frescoes—narratives of events from the lives of the ...
In a time where contemporary art often blurs the lines between disciplines, it is rare to witness a show that not only ...
Both exaggerating and reducing features, Jose Lerma paints portraits in wide swaths of acrylic applied with brooms and ...
"Uncanny" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts explores women's artwork that pairs the familiar and alien to ...
The Mid-City home that Nancy Hirsch Lassen shares with her newly minted husband, Jim Gambill, reflects the story of her ...
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A new scientific study is challenging long-held beliefs about Jackson Pollock and his iconic “drip paintings,” suggesting that the Abstract Expressionist may have embedded hidden images ...
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For this Artist Project, Thomas has created a downloadable version of Colonialism and Abstract Art, his critically creative reworking of that famous chart, to print out at home. With it, he invites us ...
The neologism is there to address when language isn’t enough.” For every piece of Mary Heilmann’s work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, ...