Sometimes the best inventions and ideas come at us unexpectedly. The Slinky. Post-It notes. Penicillin. The same could be true of art, as the Tumblr accidental aRt proves. The site features ...

Josh Schwartz opened his ABOV gallery on the belief that technical mapping data — small tiles or pieces of film of satellite imagery — when seamed together into a digital mosaic could be viewed as ...

On Main Street in Santaquin, across from the city police department, local artist Ryan Hymas turned an abandoned home into an art gallery to showcase his alternative, abstract works. For a passerby, ...

Asad J. Malik wanted a way to express what he was feeling and thinking without actually saying anything out loud. Art, of course, has long been a favored form of such expression, but he also wanted ...

Ever wondered what the internet would look like stripped of all its content? In the hands of artist Rafaël Rozendaal, it looks a bit like a Piet Mondrian painting infused with a confetti-inspired ...

Explore the world of textured and layered abstract art with this step-by-step tutorial showcasing three innovative projects. Learn how to use modeling paste, acrylic paints, and stencils to create ...

From shoes to New Yorker covers, the power of a strong visual aesthetic is at the center of this beautiful documentary series. Despite its title, “Abstract” is relatively easy to grasp. The upcoming ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of 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 ...

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 ...