"Organic Abstraction" features metal sculptures by Kevin Barrett, artist in residence at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in ...

The back story is this: By the mid-1960s, when abstract painting had lost much of its avant-garde thrust, sculpture acquired a new importance. But it wasn’t a return of cold, hard, carved stone ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

On July 24, 1997, architect I. M. Pei shared his thoughts on the relationship between sculpture and scale, including why abstract sculpture has no limit to scale compared to the lifelike elements of ...

Commuters along Speer Boulevard in downtown Denver will notice something different. Gerald Cross' 1975 untitled geometric sculpture consisting of orange-painted steel and blue plexiglass has returned ...

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 ...

Outside avant-garde artistic circles, the creation of The Abstract Group, in Pittsburgh, in late 1944, was greeted with something less than fanfare. In a contemporaneous installment of his column ...

Parviz Tanavoli is a contemporary Iranian artist, best known for his bronze sculptures combining the semiotics of Arabic language with the formal language of abstract sculpture. His practice stems ...

Despite the recent spike in inflation, $460,000 can still buy you a lot these days: a legendary match-worn Lionel Messi jersey, a parcel of real estate in Snoop Dogg’s metaverse, or a literal trip to ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...