WASHINGTON, DC — By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles ...

They may be two of the best-known names in early 20th century modern art, but Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint never actually met. Decades after their deaths in 1944, they are enjoying a posthumous ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

EPHRAIM - The Hardy Gallery features large-scale, contemporary abstract paintings in its fourth and final exhibit of the season when "Surfaces" opens with an opening reception scheduled to take place ...

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 ...

As a child, Andrew Hellmund was mesmerized by the intricate creations of Alexander Calder, an American sculptor from Pennsylvania. “It was his very animated wire circuses, his bright colors and the ...

Nancy Frankel, a sculptor and art teacher who made brightly painted, modern abstract works and helped to start women’s artists groups, was found by police deceased inside her home in Kensington, Md., ...

Located in the seaside town of Afife, Portugal, a beautiful, minimalist house was designed to pay homage to the traditional type of construction found in the region. Designed by Portuguese firm ...

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 ...