Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about New York's art gallery system and museum structure. Swiss artist Chrissy Angliker’s Brooklyn studio, a large space ...

A’Driane Nieves didn’t attend art school, and she never dreamed of becoming an abstract artist. “I knew I was a creative, but I identified as a writer,” Nieves told CNN. That changed when Nieves began ...

The Sydney-based artist got his start defacing a For Sale sign. Now, his hyper-colourful work has caught the attention of big names – from Gucci to the Prince of Saudi Arabia. Sydney artist Jonny ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

In recent years, abstract and impressionist art has continued to grow and change, with artists using new ideas and techniques to express deep emotions, spirituality, and the mysteries of life.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...