All eyes are on Brazil's World Cup but a new Royal Academy exhibition showcases a different kind of South American artistry, and makes a stunning case for the continent's geometric art In 1943, the ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

After Marcel Stewart was arrested following a misunderstanding with police, he started to paint “from the belly.” He was detained for 10 hours after police mistook his gestures for aggression when he ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...