However, abstract painting at the time had fallen out of favor with the art world intelligentsia who were increasingly drawn to the stunning innovations being made within photography (Cindy ...

The journey continues with a sampling of baskets and modern woven sculptures, spotlighting off-loom weaving techniques. A curvy, looped wire Ruth Asawa sculpture and Yvonne Koolmatrie’s conical ...

If abstract art, or any other art, finds us at a loss for words, it is because there is no ready vocabulary to express the fundamental values that are peculiarly those of the visual arts, and we ...

Abstract art of high merit has an extraordinary capability and inherent tendency to catch hold of the original thought ...

Great art often has humble beginnings. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is widely regarded as a father of modern abstract art, but he wasn’t always a hit with critics. They’d write: “This is not art – it’s ...

As an art student, Shahzia Sikander used her region's miniature painting tradition to tell the story of a modern Pakistani woman. Now her work has moved beyond the page into animation and video.

The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as ... Saunders also highlighted links between the CIA and New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), ...

Five of these busts were displayed in 2015 at New York’s MoMA PS1, and this melding of modern and ancient art techniques struck a chord with the public.

The artier, more abstract style of Matthew Sweet‘s 13th studio album, Modern Art, was influenced in part by the singer’s sideline gig selling his own hand-made ceramics on Etsy.

The second exhibition, just down the road, showed the other side of German art - modern, abstract, non-representational - or as the Nazis saw it, "degenerate".