Robert Rector has spent half a century applying intellect and intuition to his canvases. Described as "a visual poet," Robert Rector has spent half a century applying intellect and intuition to his ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

Installation view of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015). Photo ...

If you happened to wander into the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) last week, you would have been confronted by an extraordinary sight: a woman, suspended in midair on a ...

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers to a ...

Her work influenced Jackson Pollock. So, why isn’t Janet Sobel a household name like him? A new exhibit in Houston aims to remedy that. Houston Matters meets her grandson, who lives here, and learns ...

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 ...

Zhu Wei, “Ink and Wash Research Lecture Series (unfinished)” (2015), ink and color pigment on paper (click to enlarge) Gao Qian’s painting “Hua Jian Ji No. 2” (2014) is superbly executed in ink and ...