Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If asked to identify an abstract painting, most people will readily point to one of Picasso”s ...

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 ...

History of Abstract Painting -- Abstract art and nature -- Persistence and vitality of abstract art -- Kandinsky and Mondrian -- Robert and Sonia Delaunay -- Morgan Russell and Macdonald-Wright -- ...

Before even opening The Object, Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press’s latest installment in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, the book’s title stares back, interpolates itself, asking ...

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 ...