Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Abstraction by Andrew R. Johnston. University of Minnesota Press. Andrew R. Johnston’s book will undoubtedly frustrate general readers with its dense ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...

Lisa Corinne Davis, "Convulsive Calculation" (2025), oil on canvas (all images courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; image by JSP Art Photography) Five years ago, I reviewed ...

Geometric abstraction, the almost mathematical deployment of color and form, boasts a rich history that dates back to such early 20th-century masters as Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian. In the past ...

A Geometric Zig Zag Lines of 3D Effect Vector Optical Illusion is a fascinating visual puzzle that hides a 3D image within a 2D pattern. At first glance, it appears to be a random collection of ...

The shapes in Terran Last Gun’s artwork — skyward-gazing discs, sharply drawn triangles, portal-like doorways and striped expanses — aren’t purely abstract. They’re rooted in forms he noticed in ...