In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

That’s enough to make art snobs flip. A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the ...

The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...

Don Voisine, “Orange Zip” (2019), oil and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 40 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York) In 1992, Don Voisine began working with a centered black form ...

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 ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Gallery-goers attend ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ryan Feltner is discussing his art. This particular painting, one he’s informally named “Busy,” is a riot of colors, shapes, meaning and emotions. “It says ...

Art is a form of expression where every stroke, texture, and colour speaks. Artist Anita Goel, known for her contributions to the field of contemporary art, believes that art must be a flow of ...