The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

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 ...

Abstract art is what's needed as a response to the violence around us. And I think Cy Twombly's art is ultimately the most powerful history painting of our time. Why is abstraction suddenly flavour of ...