Daniel Göttin at the Spendhaus Museum Reutlingen, Germany

The Power of Blue: From Historical Masters to Contemporary Abstract Art

When you see the color blue, what do you feel? Would you describe it as something different than what you feel when you hear the word blue, or read the word blue on a page? Is the information comm...

When Art Leaves the Frame: The Nobility of the Artist's Object

How rugs, folding screens, ceramics and tapestries by major artists became museum-grade collectibles, and what to know before bringing one home. In 1911, Sonia Delaunay stitched a patchwork blanke...

Op Art: The Perceptual Ambush and the Art That Refuses to Stand Still

To stand before a major Op Art canvas in the mid-1960s was not merely to look at a picture. It was to experience vision as an active, unstable, bodily process. When the Museum of Modern Art opened ...