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 ...

In a literal sense, every artist contemplates and reckons with a lifetime's worth of places and encounters. A Wisconsin native who studied at Columbia College, and now resides in Tacoma, Washington, ...

“Love Is art,” declares each one of Jeremy Brown’s paintings produced with a uniquely intimate methodology: two lovers going at it, using their bodies as the brush. But with Brown’s kit that lets the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artists who work with technology are typically viewed as nerds sequestered in studios filled with hardware, gadgetry, and complex wiring. But WangShui, an artist who made their name on innovative ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Herriot said he produced all of the art currently in his studio between June and October. Credit: ...

In the traditional sense, abstract painting requires a remarkable imagination. For both the painter and the observer. While inspiration may come from the actual, the end product rests more in the ...