Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

It has been written about Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) that she honors Lakota culture while expanding its expression through new art forms and innovations. Better stated, she honors ...

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What if you could distill the essence of creativity into 25 distinct visual languages, each brimming with texture, rhythm, and emotion? Abstract art, with its boundless capacity for interpretation, ...

Abstract Expressionism is often thought of as the story of white men flinging paint in New York City, the very definition of postwar American art. But where are the Native Modernists? If the Tecolote ...

Nanette Carter may have been making abstract art since the 1970s, but her work has never felt more urgent. Carter's elegant, off-kilter forms articulate the alienating experience of life in the thick ...

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1971. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation, VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025 Given the period the exhibition represents ...

Almost 190 people were part of the research at Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge Visiting an art museum could change how we think about our lives, according to researchers. A University of Cambridge ...

Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a ...