God is so absent from the world of “The Great Gatsby” that the closest any character can get to him is to turn to this vague ...

Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history.

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on ...

Greek painter El Greco is one of the best known artists in the history of Western art, as his works have influenced countless painters.

India’s cultural richness, deeply embedded in thousands of years of civilization, manifests itself in various forms of ...

Through her new book “Irreverent,” Melanie Rudd hopes to empower other women to break free from the narratives that have kept ...

Celebrated actor Val Kilmer has died, leaving behind an enviable filmography and a visual art practice in which he confronted ...

Her integration of new technologies into her practice paradoxically allows for a return to something elemental—a deeper ...

After Auschwitz, no traditional representation is adequate to explore in paint both the mystery of suffering and God’s ...

It happened to Rembrandt, and it happened to Caspar David Friedrich. Towards the end of his career, Germany’s greatest ...