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Picasso’s Daughter is Donating 9 Artworks to The Musée Picasso

Spanish artist Pablo Picasso was a pioneer of the Cubism art movement — a kind of abstraction that utilizes geometric shapes to portray a subject. Examples of his famous works include The Weeping ...

How to Take Up Abstract Painting in Your Older Years

No matter who you are, you probably wanted to take up art at some point in your life but couldn’t because you didn’t have the time or resources to dedicate yourself to it properly. But now you’re ...

The Artist Who Could See Sound - Kandinsky on Google Arts and Culture

Wassily Kandinsky endeavored to achieve visually what musicians achieve with sound: the communication of complex feeling and emotion, without using narrative content. Kandinsky was not just curiou...

Waiting (Patiently) for the Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection

After five years of watching and waiting, Parisians were told this week that because of ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, they must wait just a bit longer before going inside the much anticipated Bou...

Driven To Abstraction - A New Documentary on the Knoedler Scandal

The documentary Driven to Abstraction revisits the infamous Knoedler scandal. In 2011, after 165 years in business, Knoedler & Co., one of the most venerated fine art galleries in the world, c...

Can Abstract Art Change Our Mindsets? Yes! A New Study Finds

A new abstract art study claims the human brain processes abstract art and figurative art in different ways. The study was led by four researchers from Columbia University in New York. Participant...

Can MIT's Latest Blackest Black End an Artist Feud?

The race towards total blackness has hit another milestone: in collaboration with the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, German-born conceptual artist Diemut Strebe has created the blacke...

The Movie-Like Story of Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre painting

Next month, restoration will begin on one of the most notorious paintings of the 20th Century: “Woman-Ochre” (1955), by Willem de Kooning. The painting is part of the famous Woman series, in which...