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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 the wrong way at the Big Apple’s MoMA ...
Piet Mondrian pioneered abstract painting. But he kept painting flowers — flowers that our critic Jason Farago can’t stop thinking about. What makes them so magnetic?
Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...
A painting by Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down for 77 years, says a curator at the German museum. A large retrospective of the avant garde artist's work went on ...
Moments later, a security guard discovered that a valuable painting by the artist Willem de Kooning had been cut and ripped from its frame. That painting, "Woman-Ochre," remained missing for more ...
One of the points brought out by the exhibition of “Abstract Painting in America” held at the Whitney Museum last spring was the fact that between 1915 and 1935 a surprising number of American ...
The abstract painting from 1960, which measures 7 feet, 6 inches high by 8 feet, 6 inches wide, was a centerpiece of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam—though it had been temporarily ...
In one painting, Shangal depicts Asia Abdelmajid, a famous Sudanese actress and teacher, buried in the grounds of a school where she died from a stray bullet fired as the SAF and RSF battled in ...
A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child.