From artists creatively blending performance and painting to creators making sense of information systems through visual art, ...

His later paintings adopted a hotter and more vibrant palette, and his brushwork became freer and more confident. Some paintings seem to glow like stained glass, at least to judge by photos of them.

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 ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...

The LA Art Show is almost ready to start hanging the pieces of its 31st installment. The longest-running independent art fair in the city is scheduled to take place at the Los Angeles Convention ...

A new study reveals that famous abstract art may follow hidden mathematical patterns linked to human perception.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Review: Hilma af Klint, The Secret Paintings. Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 1986, those art historians who see art as some form of linear progression “improving” with time received a rude shock.

The international art scene gathered on the French Riviera from May 15th to 17th, 2026, for the exclusive Fine Art Cannes Biennale, which took place concurrently with the world-famous Cannes Film ...