A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the ...

The dreamlike visuals for Dreams of Another, when it was first announced at Sony's February State of Play, make just as strong an impression as the sight of its protagonist, a man in pyjamas, holding ...

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 ...

Years before Kandinsky, the Swedish artist was painting circles, sunbursts and looping lines – instructed, she believed, by spirits. Now, over 75 years since her death, she is being recognised as a pi ...

Earlier this year, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85” at the Brooklyn Museum dropped like a bomb. Mining a seam of engaged, truth-telling art by black women from the Civil Rights ...

Abstract art can neither stop war, nor can it oust twisted global leaders. But surely,  art can convey reflections and evoke ...

Including pictorial summaries of each article on the table-of-contents pages of a journal makes it just that little bit easier to browse — rather than search — the scientific literature. The concept ...