Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

Before artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning shot to fame, Janet Sobel was gaining ground as an important abstract painter — but largely disappeared from the art world.

A Japanese diplomat is creating abstract art using sand from Israel and the Palestinian territories as symbols of prayers for ...

One of the points brought out by the exhibition of “Abstract Painting in America” held at the Whitney Museum last spring was the fact that between 1915 and 1935 a surprising number of American ...

How do we understand abstract art? Claudia Hammond: “At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret.

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers ...

In Indonesia, a prehistoric painting of a narrative scene has been found to date back at least 51,200 years ago. It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world.

04/08/2025 April 8, 2025. Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.

Before artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning shot to fame, Janet Sobel was gaining ground as an important abstract painter — but largely disappeared from the art world.