Meet Wilbur, the charismatic sea lion with one impressive hidden talent. The Florida-based marine mammal may well be the next Picasso with his artistic gifts, which he uses to regularly entertain ...

Brice Marden, who re-energized the art of painting in the 1960s with his subdued, yet seductive, monochrome canvases, and who drew on minimalism, abstract expressionism, scholar’s rocks, Chinese ...

The Aral Sea is shrinking, leaving a dried-up white lakebed where there used to be blue water. But in the eyes of a radar satellite, the sea's shores look like a colorful abstract painting. Once the ...

The first thing you see upon entering Frieze London, which opens to the public today, is a suite of monumental abstract paintings. Created by the young British phenom Jadé Fadojutimi (b. 1993), the ...

The Aral Sea is shrinking, leaving a dried-up white lakebed where there used to be blue water. But in the eyes of a radar satellite, the sea's shores look like a colorful abstract painting. Once the ...

Alan Cumming has been painting with his longtime chimp bestie. The Emmy-winning “The Traitors” host has collaborated on an abstract painting with Tonka, a primate who stars of HBO’s “Chimp Crazy,” ...

If you're not confident with a paintbrush or don't have the eye for perspective then perhaps the freedom of abstract art might be for you. In this second article from ISABEL H LANGTRY, Principal at ...

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 ...

That’s enough to make art snobs flip. 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 ...

Painting's last big hurrah was 30-plus years ago with the ascension of the so-called Neo-expressionist/New Romantic "movement." Painters have kept on painting since, of course, and occasionally a ...

A painting by New York abstract artist Barnett Newman sold for a record $43.8 million at Sotheby's last night. Onement Vi, a 8.5ft by 10ft dark blue canvas with Newman's distinctive 'zip' running ...