Odili Donald Odita, "Time and Space" (2022), acrylic latex paint on aluminum-core fabricated wood panel with reconstituted wood veneer, 50 x 50 x 3/4 inches (all ...

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 ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

Diane Burko, "Unprecedented" (2021), mixed media, 8 x 15 feet (all images courtesy the artist) WASHINGTON, DC — At the heart of Diane Burko’s retrospective exhibition at the American University Museum ...

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 ...

In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can’t make the trip to the Femmes ...

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 ...

Abstract painting gets a smooth water upgrade💧🎨!!

Detail of a painting by Ha Chong-Hyun, from the “Conjunction” series, hanging in his studio. In recent years, the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea has been having a moment, to say the least. The abstract ...

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 ...