For the first time, Gagosian has planned such a large London show that the works have taken over both of the gallery’s Mayfair locations in Grosvenor Hill and Davies Street. The additional space is ...

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 ...

The Phoenix Art Museum is organizing "Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context," an exhibition showcasing contemporary Latin American artworks and their commentary ...

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 ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from the ...

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 ...

IT is not easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan’s Whitney Museum of American Art, believes he ...

Composers and musicians in the world of contemporary classical music have compared it to abstract art. In contrast to the flowing, musically descriptive melodies of the classical composers of past ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art, once a bastion of conservatism regarding contemporary art, is courageously wading into the rising culture wars over the history of race in America in the ...