FRANKFORT — The sun hadn’t yet rose when Mercedes Michalowski made her way to the Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts with plans to photograph an exhibition.

This is your brain on art: A neuroscientist’s lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good It took a Nobel-winning scientist who specializes in human memory to break new ground in ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock's signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee ...

John Opper is exhibiting in "American Masters," a group show of works by more than 40 20th-century American artists, today through June 1 at Foster Harmon Galleries of American Art, 1415 Main St ...

Abstract art, which reached its full expression, if not its final form, in the great Cubist Exhibition in Paris in 1911, was fully shown in the Armory Exhibition in New York in 1913 and thereafter ...

Abstract thinking is considered a type of higher-order thinking. ... With all of these examples, theoretical and intangible concepts are translated into a joke, a decision, or a piece of art.

Perhaps most powerful is how abstract thinking connects to meaning and purpose. When we tap into basic human needs—connection, security, expression, growth—we access an intuitive understanding ...

Or, more specifically, abstract art? We all know the answer. It was the free-thinking American and European painters of the mid-20th century, heroes like Mark Rothko, ...

A fresh voice appears in the Charleston art scene — abstract expressionist painter Demetrius Bing. He works out of a home studio with walls covered in paintings, all of which he’s made over ...