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

“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” was first displayed at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas. After leaving the Muscarelle, ...

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 ...

Thomas Nozkowski (1944–2019) never hedged his bets. One bet was that abstract painting did not have to be elitist; it could be as open to subject matter as Andy Warhol supposedly was. The difference ...

Mary Heilmann, “Rio Nido” (1987), acrylic and oil on canvas, 39 x 58 in (all images via cheimread.com) Before there were the New Casualists, there were the Provisional Painters, and before there were ...

The middle of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the 22 countries of the Arab world. It was a period of decolonization and industrialization, of war and mass-migration. It saw the rise of ...

Born in Macon, Mississippi in 1946 and raised in Detroit, McArthur Binion was the first Black graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. In New York in the 1970s, he embarked on a rigorous painting ...

Artists are always nervous before a big show, hoping for the best reaction … and fearing the worst. Andrew Rodgers has reason to be especially tense. “Our Memories as Water,” an exhibit of Rodgers’ ...

The study investigated the influence of abstraction and complexity of paintings on the preferences and recognition capabilities of university elementary education majors (EESG), art education majors ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...