"In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Rauschenberg's image, "Ileana (Ruminations)," 2000, Print on paper, Collection of the Mattatuck Museum is one of the images ...

Her art kept an eye toward the future, but her life was shaped by the global turmoil of the 20th century. Born in Russia in 1908 to a Jewish family, the artist Esphyr Slobodkina spent her adolescence ...

This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art. By the time she painted this mysterious work in 1975, Miyoko Ito — the Chicago ...

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced “Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium,” a survey of work by the American abstract photographer and educator. Carlotta ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three Japanese American women artists whose overlooked stories bring powerful voices ...