The Albert Lea Art Center has once again brought in a talented local artist to display their work in the gallery this month.

The dense layout “might offend you aesthetically,” Joyner acknowledges as she points out towering works from Black artists ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...

Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy ...

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 ...

Andres was hardly a secret at the time. By my count, he had no fewer than 147 paintings accepted in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s annual May Show between 1947 and 1984, an average of nearly four a ...

Click through our gallery of some of the most beautiful artwork from the prehistoric era. Here, a bison graces the Cave of Altamira’s 25,000-year-old Hall of Polychromes. Its meaty body overwhelms its ...

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 ...

One work amid the hundreds in a flabbergasting retrospective, “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future,” at the Guggenheim Museum, is so good that it knocked my sense of the show momentarily askew.