Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1913, a group of New York artists assembled a landmark exhibition of avant-garde, fiercely debated art that is known today simply as the Armory Show, ...

We have plumbed the depths of abstract words, but what about abstract ideas? Abstractions are a fact of professional life. The law is littered with them. Think of the legislative process, intellectual ...

At first, artist Tom Peterson’s images, entitled Hidden Mysteries, could be abstract textures of black and white, possible rendered by computer, a pattern of repeating fractals. Then it becomes clear: ...

DENVER — High culture in Colorado climbed higher last week. As the new Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors to the public, state and local officials giddily absorbed the knowledge that a repository ...

The world by its very nature is beautiful, but it's a world that has seen its brilliance diminished over the past couple of centuries. Whether it's through the ravaging of natural resources, the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Brad Cloepfil is the kind of architect who travels easily. His buildings don’t have the ego-driven trademarks of peers ...

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The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

Galerie Hoffmann is unlike any other art institution in the world. Located in two 120-year-old former mills in the town of Friedberg, Germany—just outside of Frankfurt—the gallery uses its 5,800 ...