This made me a bit nervous—I was weaned on Abstract Expressionism—but I was also game, as one must be now, for democratizing revisions of art history. I need not have fretted—or hoped.

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 ...

My paintings are semi-abstract, and they hold a significant ... People seem fresh and happy in the morning, while nervous in the afternoon. I can’t always note my own expressions, but I create ...

The febrile art of American Cy Twombly is informed ... a comprehensive survey of 50 years of Twombly's works on paper: nervous abstract scribbles and taut, wiry daubs in freefall across the ...

A nervous art market is waiting on the forthcoming auction ... Among Coper’s work is a large stoneware dish with a carved abstract bird design (c1955, est £80,000-£120,000).

Ironically, the most abstract designs of the prehistoric era may have required the least symbolic thinking. So is it art or just an artifact of neuroscience? Should their achievement be less ...

Abstract artist Piet Mondrian’s masterpiece, Composition No. II, is expected to achieve more than US$50 million at a Sotheby’s auction in November. The square painting, created in 1930 ...

Is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen getting tired of his abstract art collection? Bloomberg reports that the tech billionaire just unloaded at auction a Mark Rothko painting — “Untitled (Red ...