Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During Conceptual art’s height in the early 1970s, critics proclaimed that painting was dead. It wasn’t the first time that ...

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 ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...