The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

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 ...

By way of example, WangShui pointed to works made for the 2022 Whitney Biennial. In a darkened gallery, WangShui exhibited gigantic aluminum panels painted with spidery, bluish strokes of oil. Up ...

Alyse Rosner, "A Quieter Battle" (2021), wax and acrylic on raw canvas, signed and dated in graphite on the verso, 78 x 202 inches (photo credit: Tom Powel Imaging, courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art) “A ...

In the 1990s, Rebecca Morris began to search for methods of constructing abstract paintings in surprising ways. And constructing is the operative term — as are synonyms like building, fabricating and ...

That’s enough to make art snobs flip. A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the ...

Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne In 1986, those art historians who see ...

Miguel Arzabe creates dynamic compositions that meld art history with his Bolivian heritage, drawing on Andean imagery and ...

Peter Shear, "Cold Room" (2022), oil on linen over panel, 11 inches x 14 inches (all images courtesy the artist, Fortnight Institute, and Cheim & Read) I first saw Peter Shear's work in 2017 at ...

SALISBURY — An artist who made a name for himself by turning the outdoors into his canvas is bringing his artwork inside. Known commonly as Abstract Dissent, Shane Pierce has earned a reputation in ...