Resist reading the titles of the paintings on this page. Just take them in. Think what you think, feel what you feel, wonder what you wonder. Then, check out the names and see how they reshape, enrich ...

Katie Ruiz was finding it, her appreciation for abstract art. Trained as a figurative artist and working as a textile-based ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hashtags have become a standard in ...

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 ...

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

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 ...

You know Cooperstown, New York, as the home of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Johnny Bench and the greats of baseball history who take up residence at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Joining them in this ...

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

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 ...