DURING the war years and, with increasing tempo, the last two seasons, there has been a rapid swing in the art markets along New York’s Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street toward modernistic, ...

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 ...

Abstract art is often seen as the opposite of realism, but in truth it forms the foundation of all strong realistic artwork. Before details, textures, or likeness appear, every successful painting or ...

FRANKFORT — The sun hadn’t yet rose when Mercedes Michalowski made her way to the Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts with plans to photograph an exhibition. It was an early morning in mid-March ...

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 ...

While we’ve become increasingly reliant on metrics for design decisions, there is something more powerful in human creativity: the art of mental stargazing and the hidden currents of our intuition.

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...