This type of art often seems confusing or even random to the average viewer. Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many ...

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A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

Eight decades after liberation from the Nazis, silence, shame and a struggling legal system keep Jewish property in Dutch family homes ...

The US Pavilion has critics in a fury—and not just because Trump's State Department overhauled the selection process. The ...

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Untitled, 2022. In the winter of 2012, New York’s Museum ...

Image courtesy of Sedar Global. For many of us, owning an original artwork by the likes of Vincent van Gogh or Claude Monet is the stuff collector dreams are made of. But a close second may now be ...

The collection of modern and contemporary art built over some seven decades by David and Shoshanna Wingate will come to auction at Sotheby's New York and London over evening and day sales on May 19 ...

View legendary artifacts like the Rosetta Stone on a virtual stroll through the British Museum. Gaze up at the Sistine Chapel’s divine ceiling without the crowds at the Vatican Museums. Explore mini ...

Alex Janvier, also known as Alexan Simeon Janvier, was a Canadian artist celebrated for his modernist abstraction in painting. He was part of the modernist abstraction movement. Born in 1935 in Le ...