LA Art Show Features Sylvester Stallone And Other Celebrity Painters

The action star exhibits abstract paintings alongside works by musicians Paul Simonon and Chris Rivers at the 31st annual ...
KTIV

Sioux City Art Center hosts family art lessons on abstract art

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The Sioux City Art Center held family art lessons Saturday in the Gilchrist Learning Center on Saturday, ...
CNN

Why this pioneering abstract painter disappeared from the art world at the height of her fame

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...
The Royal Gazette

Three generations of family art

In a review I wrote sometime ago, I stated that recent research indicates that creativity may be an inherited ability. Certainly some families seem to be more highly endowed with artistic skills than ...
New York Post

Abstract painting has been hanging wrong way in museums for 75 years

That’s enough to make art snobs flip. A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the ...
NPR

This artist stayed figurative when art went abstract — he's finally recognized, at 99

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...
Hyperallergic

'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...
Seven Days

Creating Abstract Art Inspired by Nature

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...
The New York Times

Once Overlooked, Black Abstract Painters Are Finally Given Their Due

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression. Howardena Pindell, a ...
The Atlantic

Abstract Art and the Critics

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...
Ars Technica

Abstract art with “pseudo-profound” BS titles seen as more meaningful

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...