Before the 1980s, abstract painting typically embraced pure form — gesture or geometry as something self-contained, insulated from outside contamination. Over the past generation, however, another ...

Chris Johanson makes conceptual art in a Venn diagram style. Johanson creates a simple painting based on Venn diagrams, an art lesson developed for students in partnership with SFMOMA for their ...

From Conceptual art history and industrial photography to small-scale painting and experimental sound, it’s a week that shows London at its most varied (and most alive after dark). Raven Row 6.30PM–8.

Art Making Space for Painting in Mexico City, Where Conceptual Art Reigns MEXICO CITY — In places like Mexico City, where conceptual art with an overt socio-political agenda currently dominates, media ...

A few eyebrows were raised when Ivan Massow was appointed as chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 1999. Massow, who had not previously been much known for his interest in ...

Under what circumstances does painting turn into conceptual art? You can see it happen in the work of German artist Markus Linnenbrink at Sweetow, which at first looks excessively optical. Viewer ...

Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808" depicting the execution by Napoleon's troops of a group of Spanish captives is an excruciating work of art. The French soldiers are painted in a tight group, ...

For some strange reason, the show mostly tamped down my Sargentophilia. Maybe it was the sheer number of pictures on view, but something seemed to end up confirming Sargent’s reputation as a glib ...

Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops. This week, the column takes us to Los Angeles, for Tinsel Town’s annual art week. I think I’ll remember this Frieze ...