Dubai based Art Smiley Gallery inaugurated the Abstract Universe art exhibition, a global celebration of contemporary ...

In 1954, the American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996) saw some drawings of basketballs in a sports equipment catalog. “They were just line circles with a drawing of the seams on the ...

As soon as I stepped inside the Museum of Modern Art’s chronological retrospective “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction,” I felt delighted, like a kid again. I was captivated by expressive movement ...

With their overlapping, asymmetrical canvases, Ellsworth Kelly’s Blue Relief over Green (2004) and Dark Red Relief with White (2005) blur the line between painting and sculpture and distort the ...

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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 ...

Artists have, of course, done many marvellous things with the continuous line. They have taken it places, crawling off the page or squiggling into three dimensions, becoming a physical thing of itself ...

For some, abstract art is the essence of their attraction to the genre, while others need more exposure in order to embrace this form of expression. Enter the prolific scene of this nature in the City ...

Michelle Colson's contemporary abstract art is textural, liquid, luminous and light. Even her work in black does things to ambient light. Michelle is the newest addition to the collective of artists ...

The second season of the documentary series is an unquestioning tribute to its subjects, but there's still impeccable visual craft on display. In the spirit of melding form and subject, “Abstract: The ...