The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of one of America’s best-known abstract expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell. The museum has more ...

Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...

Warwick Academy students recently visited the Bermuda National Gallery’s “Simplicity of Form: Unfolding Abstraction” exhibit which helps to bring abstract art to life. The students took part in a tour ...

Directly off West Spring Valley Road sits the Goldmark Cultural Center. The former office space features splashes of red, green, yellow, and pink around skinny windows. Inside, Roma Osowo paints. On ...

She saw an angel of mercy. You saw a sandwich. Such is the fun of visiting a museum or art gallery with a friend and gazing at an abstract painting together and then realizing you have different ...

Mumbai-born sculptorAnish Kapoor—the man behind the beloved bean-shaped "Cloud Gate" sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park—wants everyone to know that his abstract art has no inherent meaning, and he ...