In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...

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In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Born to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, Aaron ...

The stacks of FedEx boxes and cubes of cracked glass scattered throughout the third floor of the Hirshhorn don't look like priceless works of contemporary sculpture, which is probably why museum ...

Hazmat suits, gloves, a respirator — Fabiola Menchelli needs all of it to handmake her large format art. For her new certain silence project, the artist from Mexico City worked with toxic color ...

Photography’s uncanny ability to represent the world had such a profound impact on society in the early 20th century that its role in non-representative art has been overlooked. “Shape of Light”, Tate ...

This October, a collective of local photographers will push boundaries at the Adler Center in "Women Undefined - Transforming Reality into Abstraction." The 13 female artists in Women Undefined break ...

Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts, vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s more ...

Rishi Deka, a UC San Diego postdoctoral researcher in radiation medicine and an award-winning photojournalist, has taken to creating what he calls “psychedelic abstract photography” in response to the ...

“Death by Abstraction,” a solo exhibition by abstract photographer David Robertson, shows at Gallery 1855, 820 Pole Line Road, through Feb. 28. A reception is planned for 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, ...