Sometimes the best inventions and ideas come at us unexpectedly. The Slinky. Post-It notes. Penicillin. The same could be true of art, as the Tumblr accidental aRt proves. The site features ...

Asad J. Malik wanted a way to express what he was feeling and thinking without actually saying anything out loud. Art, of course, has long been a favored form of such expression, but he also wanted ...

Ever wondered what the internet would look like stripped of all its content? In the hands of artist Rafaël Rozendaal, it looks a bit like a Piet Mondrian painting infused with a confetti-inspired ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

From shoes to New Yorker covers, the power of a strong visual aesthetic is at the center of this beautiful documentary series. Despite its title, “Abstract” is relatively easy to grasp. The upcoming ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...