Artists Gwen O’Neil and Tommy May have solo exhibitions on view in New York this month, at Almine Rech and Half Gallery ...

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art ...

A show at the Guggenheim Museum highlights the early abstract movement, prominently featuring work by husband and wife Robert ...

His painting is an abstraction of the horror that occurred in just 15 minutes that night. He used colors, shapes and angles ...

Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a ...

It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping ...

Whistler’s paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...

You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind ... with red and orange light. Colors mean a lot to us in so many different ways. Understanding the science behind colors and ...

She was fascinated, telling her parents that she wanted to be the “woman in the light”: the singer she saw onstage. Image Suzie Gomez-Pizzo, from the Met’s wardrobe team, helping Blue with ...

A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ordered the seizure of two "offensive" paintings by MF Husain, one of India's most famous artists. The court on Monday granted permission for the police ...

In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the first light on the art of painting” – until he was “eclipsed” by his pupil Giotto. The story, told by Giorgio Vasari in his ...

“It’s more abstract, really different from what you’re seeing,” said Elizabeth Buffalo, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. For decades, neuroscientists mocked the idea that the brain ...