Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy ...

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 ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...

Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture,” which is currently occupying MoMA’s fourth floor, is composed entirely of art drawn from the museum’s colossal permanent collection (much of which ...

"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975," on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 29 through May 26, is the first full-scale exhibition to examine the sources, meaning and impact of ...

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 ...

John Knuth’s paintings are beautiful—with brightly colored canvases covered in thousands of dots, his pieces would look at home in any abstract art exhibition. They're also gross. Like, really, really ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

For some, abstract art is the essence of their attraction to the genre, while others need more exposure in order to embrace this form of expression. Enter the prolific scene of this nature in the City ...