If you've been looking for an excuse to visit the Guggenheim and you're an abstract art fan, here it is! The famous Fifth Avenue museum is exhibiting Wassily Kandinsky's work. Kandinsky was a ...

Painters pick up lots of studio tricks over a long career like that of Southern California native Ed Moses. But nothing guarantees that know-how and experience will snowball into great work. It has ...

“Eight Women Abstract Artists: 8 x 8” features eight artists, almost all are paintings. The title “Eight Women Abstract Artists: 8 x 8” gives the impression of a curated show with an eye to gender ...

At its best, abstract painting, with its seemingly random, often mysterious brush strokes, rhythms, shapes and marks, can leave viewers reeling with emotion. Too often, though, it makes them scratch ...

What is it about the expressive power of abstract art—especially abstract painting, whose ambiguity of meaning is one of its most definitive characteristics—that remains so alluring? The Museum of ...

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The pale, porcelain skin of Ayako Rokkaku’s petite hands brightens the navy blue ceramic tea cup held in her palms. For nearly two decades, the artist has used her hands instead of brushes, dipping ...

Although famous for figurative works, the American modernist had a little-known foray into abstract painting that included some of his best work. By Roberta Smith An unfamiliar side of the work of the ...