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 ...

EPHRAIM - The Hardy Gallery features large-scale, contemporary abstract paintings in its fourth and final exhibit of the season when "Surfaces" opens with an opening reception scheduled to take place ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the group exhibition “To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting” opened across both of Gagosian’s Mayfair gallery locations, curated by ...

On Sunday, July 11, the Music Academy’s orchestra will light up the Granada stage in the first public performance there since March of 2020. Maestro Larry Rachleff will conduct a program that includes ...

Tilt the floorboards of a room just so; and items placed in an uplifted corner rise pyramid-style to an apex. The attention-grabbing maneuver is metaphorically enacted at the Bedford Gallery, which ...

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 ...

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 ...