Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules ...

Many believe that only those with an artistic eye can truly understand a painting. But is that always true? At an abstract ...

Abstract painting is a hardy perennial of the art world. Trends may come and go, but the practice of translating visual ...

An abstract painter and visual artist known professionally as K.I.A., Andersen has spent the last decade experimenting with ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

Switching to long-acting ART from oral treatments was cost effective for postpartum women with HIV and improved infant outcomes, researchers said at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic ...

When a large abstraction with a $60,000 high estimate sold for $1.2 million, the art world woke up and said “Who is Lynn ...

Works the size of postcards and bathroom tiles are challenging the market’s appetite for grand scales.

Tony Seker thrives in a world without boundaries. His abstract art represents the very antithesis of his childhood in Lebanon ...

London audiences will have a mouthwatering encounter with a Modern master whose impact on contemporary art has been enormous.

The Mid-City home that Nancy Hirsch Lassen shares with her newly minted husband, Jim Gambill, reflects the story of her ...

An emigre from post-war China, in Hong Kong Lui Shou-kwan married Chinese ink art with Western abstract art to forge the New ...