In 20th-century art, she spotlights women and Black artists for whom recognition arrived belatedly, including Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner and folk art-influenced painter William H. Johnson.

The art critics of The Times select their favorites from this year’s crop of art books ... ‘ABSTRACT ART: ... MoMA’s first director Alfred H. Barr Jr. drew a famous diagram of modern art ...

Touch the Art: Make Van Gogh’s Bed. by Julie Appel. Make Van Gogh’s Bed is a Touch the Art series touch and feel board book that introduces children to famous artists. I love it! Don’t miss ...

Paul Bloom writes about “How Art Works,” by Ellen Winner, and “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science,” by Eric Kandel, books that try to understand how our brains react to abstract art.

• Click here for more reading lists on the world's greatest artists. Over the past decade or so, the US artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) has come out of the shadows cast by her more famous ...

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 ...

Ironic that it should come not from an art historian, but a neuroscientist specializing in human memory, most famous for his experiments involving giant sea snails. You can’t make this stuff up.

This cartoon, based on a famous Rembrandt painting, lampoons the art establishment's promotion of abstract expressionism in the mid-20th century. Jonah Kinigstein/Fantagraphics hide caption ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression.

In 20th-century art, she spotlights women and Black artists for whom recognition arrived belatedly, including Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner and folk art-influenced painter William H. Johnson.

A sweeping survey of the American Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-70) at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has garnered rave reviews and is one of the blockbuster shows of the year ...