The third goal, he explained, was more abstract. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not the way you humans talk about the abstract one. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There was in this attitude something feminine, a refusal of the abstract, the ideal, a submissiveness to the given, which rather displeased me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Once Sumerians had hit upon this phonetic principle, they began to use it for much more than just writing abstract nouns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was relieved to be done with law school, eager to get out of the abstract realm of academia and into work that felt more engaging and real. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The IAT is more than just an abstract measure of attitudes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Bogert first gazed speculatively at his fingernails, and then bit at them in abstracted fashion. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A series of doors were punctuated by brightly colored abstract paintings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Locke brushes his hand over the tops of cattails and bulrushes, looking abstracted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The brick walls are covered in posters and stickers, all bright and colorful, abstract and strange. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t “something”; it wasn’t just an abstract noise, a sound with no meaning. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s abstract wrapping. You just don’t understand my art.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately my art has been getting more and more abstract, as if the lines are pulling my hand rather than the other way around. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They remained there, tucked into his memory, deep within a cave of abstract thoughts: information and ideas about pawns and squares to be used, discarded, or ignored—all in perfect cadence and synchronicity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s made of blue glass, an abstract shape that looks like falling water frozen in time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Liszt was moving away from the idea of music as an abstract entity, something to be listened to attentively for forty or so minutes, towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It requires an ability to move back and forth between the concrete and the abstract, the immediate example and a scientific theory, and this movement is conceptually and historically problematic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Evidently it still appeared in the original Red Book, as it did in several of the copies and abstracts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He mumbled inarticulately to himself as he flipped the pages and then spoke with an abstracted air, “Sit down, Dr. Calvin! This will take me a few minutes.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

His paintings were gorgeous abstract masterpieces, and people were comparing him to the masters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Alvarez was using the word amateur in its traditional sense: someone who engaged in a pursuit not for money or fame but purely for the love of knowledge and the abstract quest for truth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It makes more sense to me than the more abstract forms of worship. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, that was what I was going to guess. You did an...abstract thingie...for all twelve ideas?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My younger sister who is a self-proclaimed-finance-whiz, says it best: Love is abstract. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The puzzlement in having to make sense of this abstract philosophical conundrum mingles with the poignancy of having to come to terms with the loss of someone we love. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

So the concrete picture and the abstract linkages of relationships fed each other, each making the other more meaningful and affording my emotions an opportunity to react to them with success and understanding. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That is, an abstract word was written with the sign for another word pronounced similarly but with a different meaning that could be readily depicted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the thought is abstract and far less alarming than the current agonies of my body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

On its surface are arranged, seemingly at random, several bright pink objects not unlike those to be found in abstract paintings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The essence of that originality was to take what composers normally did in symphonies - long, abstract, streams of ‘pure’ instrumental music - and turn it into a sung drama on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The big woman who looked like a southern "sudsbuster" was in charge of women's work, and spoke in abstract, ideological terms. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d talked in abstract ways about how each of us viewed marriage, and it worried me sometimes how different those views seemed to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We had always known that the regent had the right to arrange marriages for us, but now it was no longer an abstract possibility. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We say, we say. Be careful of say. Words say, ‘You have labeled this abstract, this concept, therefore you have captured it.’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He replied not: he seemed serious—abstracted; he sighed; he half-opened his lips as if to speak: he closed them again. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stood abstracted for a moment, then became aimlessly mobile. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It made me feel bad, but in an abstract, numb way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Law school had seemed abstract and disconnected before, but after meeting the desperate and imprisoned, it all became relevant and critically important. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have any particular style; some of her paintings were what she called primitive, some were impressionistic and abstract, some were realistic. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

How could principle, an abstract thing floating in the air, wedge itself so solidly between them, and turn Blaine into somebody else? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Fisher Ames of Massachusetts wondered out loud why the House had allowed itself to be drawn intoa debate over “abstract propositions” and now urged that the committee report be tabled. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And part of your job, aside from parsing abstract intellectual property issues for big corporations, is to help cultivate the next set of young lawyers being courted by the firm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I knew it was a deportation center, but those words were abstract until I saw what they meant. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system, where my sons are being educated, fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gebu halted, turned with an oddly abstracted air and held out his hand for the coins. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She tapped her foot impatiently, probably wondering why I hadn’t been writing abstracts since nursery school. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are still entirely figurative; Kandinsky’s first abstract painting did not emerge until 1910. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the forms of the signs became more abstract, especially when the pointed writing tools were replaced by reed styluses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though related to these abstract considerations, the mistaken belief in the mechanical nature of mathematics generally takes more prosaic forms. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tell each other this, in fact, when we speak of living languages, and I think we mean something more than an abstract metaphor. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This done, he moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Board represented the law of the land and not merely the abstract recommendations of a federal commission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even as genetics was being used to justify sweeping changes in law and society, the gene itself had remained a doggedly abstract entity, a ghost lurking in the biological machine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He got himself fixated on big and abstract issues, fueled by some crazy sense that he might be able to do something about them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being with Pearl made the world feel bigger, even as being with him made Pearl feel more grounded, less abstract, more real. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Oppie spoke in abstract terms because, as he acknowledged, the government’s demand for nuclear secrecy required him to gloss over the horrific details. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A reader of this intimidating passage can marvel at Butler’s ability to juggle abstract propositions about still more abstract propositions, with no real-world referent in sight. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But he’d been building this abstract new life for them since Luke took state their freshman year. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Of course, there was nothing abstract about a face. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s first two laws may seem a little remote and abstract: planets move in ellipses, and sweep out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought some energy to it, of course, but it was the energy that accompanies almost any abstract endeavor; I felt no personal danger; I felt no sense of an impending crisis in my life. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some genres, such as the scholarly journal article, force an author to lay out her point in a summary, an abstract, or a synopsis. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now, you might object that the experimenters stacked the deck by writing a passage about a concrete physical activity in vague and abstract language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What Belew had talked about the week before, how there was nothing else like winning a state championship, wasn’t something abstract now, but something they could feel. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of us, the periodic table is a thing of beauty in the abstract, but for chemists it established an immediate orderliness and clarity that can hardly be overstated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I thought, looking at an abstract fish of polished brass mounted on a piece of ebony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s telescope made two ideas that had previously seemed abstract and theoretical suddenly seem plausible and perfectly realistic: there might indeed be other inhabited worlds, and space might indeed be infinite. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My major in international relations with a focus on North Africa was no longer an abstract area of study, it was what I was living, eating, and breathing every day for three months. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Yet Johns abstract warnings of the perils of the unshielded cyclotron had less visceral impact on the staff than the fate of the very first mouse he irradiated with neutrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After eighteen sentences that mix wistful nostalgia with abstract philosophizing, the reverie is punctured by a stark revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The human brain works hard to abstract that out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a sweeping abstract something that’s a cross between an amoeba and a manta ray with eyes and mouths in unexpected places. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There was a world of difference between a body in the abstract and a body you desired, and Adina desired Duff’s body very much. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If women wore shoes like these, she thinks, they wouldn’t worry so much about more abstract equalities. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure you can. It doesn’t have to be representative. You can do abstract. Do you want crayons?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In their efforts to recruit masses, they had missed the meaning of the lives of the masses, had conceived of people in too abstract a manner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is an abstract or theoretical chair, a geometer’s chair, not a real chair. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the talks proved too abstract and bloodless, and far too disengaged from the social and political issues of the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also a scoop- neck short-sleeved black jersey top that shows off her breasts, a full cotton skirt of a dull blue-green with abstract black swirls and squares on it, a wide black belt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found that when I talked to them in abstract terms, my ideas were not understood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was brought out of my abstracted state by a salmon-colored cloud passing low in the sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Yet in this brief flash of six decades, the gene had transformed from an abstract concept in a botanical experiment to a powerful instrument of social control. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A huge crater now lives in the wall, like an abstract painting. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had spent a difficult year cadging money from philanthropists and foundations for a proton accelerator, the purpose of which had to be explained to them in the abstract terms of basic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No matter how abstract the work or how conceptual the problem being solved, no one at Langley ever forgot that behind the numbers was a real-world goal: faster planes, more efficient planes, safer planes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“An abstract of our argument for the debate tonight.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That preparation was critical as she put the abstract three-dimensional Cartesian plane to use in the service of the space technology lectures, which were eventually compiled in written form. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I stared at the toilet: a perfect porcelain bowl, set in the floor with rose-colored tiles arranged all around in an abstract mosaic. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was sitting, propped by several pillows, watching the commotion around him with a kind of abstracted childlike wonder. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was groping towards Right as a criterion of its own—towards Justice as an abstract thing which did not lean upon power. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did Mendel’s abstract “unit of heredity” become manifest as a physical trait? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even his family seemed to interest him in an abstract way, like lab specimens he’d come to feel responsibility and affection for. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It’s very clever.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Only now do I see that each piece, although geometric and abstract, seems representative of their personal lives. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They are all abstract and blend perfectly with the color theme of each room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we do have to write about abstract ideas. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Whenever he referred to him in his speeches he was careful to strip him of any human attributes and present him as an abstract functionary in some larger scheme. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Use farther when referring to physical distance; use further to refer to abstract ideas or to indicate a greater extent or degree. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is to this that he has responded, not the abstract logic of the language. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had heard Communists discuss discipline in the abstract, but when I saw it in its concrete form it tore my feelings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the stories were vivid, the lectures were abstract, treatises on obscure philosophical subjects, and it was to these abstractions that I devoted most of my study. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He said it would be laughable for me to continue to study luxurious and abstract knowledge when a world of practical utility awaited my laboring hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had abstracted real boar-spears from the armoury, so they were property armed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The report switched back to me saying something abstract and philosophical, and then it was over. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I examined the radio on the table with a show of abstracted interest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think it’s just an abstract concept? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My paintings have been getting more and more abstract lately, violent-looking with clotted swirls of red. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, Barack and I would take steps in this direction, hanging more abstract art and works by African American artists on the walls, for example, and mixing contemporary furniture in with the antiques. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Gardner's world was the abstract realm of codes, clues, and interpretation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jack’s arms were crossed now, and he studied Mr. Remora the way you might an abstract painting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sheriff would have liked a mind that could deal with abstract thoughts and ideas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the book was long, Charles always felt as though it was just an abstract. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love Alexa’s place, with all its happy colors and books and weird abstract art. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mind, he teased her by pretending to be macho, he’d tell her women were incapable of abstract thought and she’d have another drink and grin at him. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The danger which he presented was, after all, not immediate but slow and simmering, a sort which can, at least in the abstract, be postponed or diverted in any number of ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I seemed to be floating in pure, abstract blackness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down at a table covered with a cheery red- checkered tablecloth in a cold, abstract arrangement of squares—the kind of pattern the demons favored. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their speculations were purely abstract and theoretical; they applied to any possible world and not to our actual world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Seeing abstract images and performing them either on voice or instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Our peripheral existence, however, was something we had learned to deal with—probably because it was abstract. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I certainly had not expected to meet, for example, a plumber who was an abstract painter in his off hours and admired the work of Mark Rothko. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally remembered growing up surrounded by Sol’s woodwork, abstract shapes fashioned from fallen branches she would collect from parks as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jack’s arms were crossed now, and he studied Mr. Remora the way you might an abstract painting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Greeks were different; they embraced the abstract and the philosophical, and brought mathematics to its highest point in ancient times. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And in general, he’s just not someone who’s easily rattled or thrown off course by anything as abstract as doubt or hurt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Was I sabotaging my academic career over an abstract moral principle that mattered very little? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each begins its life as a rather abstract scientific concept, but grows to invade multiple human discourses—thereby transforming culture, society, politics, and language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a bad idea to rustle or fidget during these pauses: Aunt Lydia might look abstracted but she was aware of every twitch. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after the burn, thinking about the future feels wrong in some way, an abstract sin. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Logograms for abstract words were often derived by the rebus principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For certainly he felt more attached to them for their having turned abstract — missing them more than he had liked them, the missing being simpler. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In six weeks it would be an actual thing out there in the world, about halfway to completion, not just an abstract concept. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The iron was contorting, twisting itself out of the abstract curls and coils into a frightening face, which spoke in a clanging, echoing voice: “State your purpose!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The certainty that he was finally fighting for his own liberation and not for abstract ideals, for slogans that politicians could twist left and right according to the circumstances, filled him with an ardent enthusiasm. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For example, he once said: “It’s not enough to have respect for bishops in the abstract, you gotta watch out for them!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Byrnes, who up to then had viewed the atomic bomb largely as an abstract device useful for bargaining with the Russians, would recall that Oppenheimer’s astonishing figures left him “thoroughly frightened.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But besides his frequent absences, there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an abstracted, and even of a brooding nature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The White River is beautiful in the abstract—blue herons and geese and deer and all that stuff—but the actual water itself smells like human sewage. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I stared at the abstract prints, randomly finding pictures in the shapes, like I’d found pictures in the clouds as a child. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Whereas the buildings of Sumer and Assyria were covered with brilliant mosaics and splendid pictorial murals, the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the tube are gold circles crossed with seven red lines each—“joy” ideographs in abstract. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, he was a famously absent-minded scientist, living in an abstract world of ideas and numbers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a year of nagging from Mary and Margaret for George to publish anything about growing HeLa; in the end, he wrote a short abstract for a conference, and Margaret submitted it for publication. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Water stains formed brown abstract paintings between the store windows. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the time the war is an abstract event, happening somewhere else. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He would grow abstracted and silent, and a faraway look would come into his eyes, and the building was there before him—every stone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As my mind extended in this general and abstract manner, it was fed with even more vivid and concrete examples of the lives of Bigger Thomas. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Poverty to him was an abstract, distant concept, applicable to the tenants at Tres Marias and the indigent patients his brother Jaime helped; he had never had any direct contact with it himself. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had been self-conscious was now impersonal, almost abstract. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whether this process would produce explosions or merely heat became the focus of a rather abstract debate, for the practicalities of harnessing the energy were elusive. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

War, for me, had always been terrifying but also abstract, involving landscapes I couldn’t imagine and people I didn’t know. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted to catch the unglued schizo way he looked before he got run over by misery, so I went way more abstract than usual. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There are many such systems used in tournaments, and they’re as complicated as abstract mathematical theorems. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the fifteenth century artists were experimenting with the idea of infinite, abstract, undifferentiated space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I mean, I knew there was a whole city around them, but the other residents of Yazd had always been abstract. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I am staring at him, and his face morphs into abstract shapes, and I think, This is reality; everything is made of shapes; no one is human; language is shapes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It provides an abstract account of lines in space, travelling from the object, through the picture plane, to the eye, and an account of how these lines appear on the picture plane itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Using abstract notation is one way around this. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Leisured, and skilled at abstracting from immediate experience, the scholar is able to see how aspects of individual experience constitute a culture. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the fall, Richard Gray will show Mr. Dine’s latest abstract paintings in Chicago and New York. William Eggleston Joins Zwirner Gallery 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

My original drawings for the film are quite abstract. A Minute With: Tim Burton about his new "Frankenweenie" film 2012-10-03T13:07:51Z

According to findings from the German Ethics Council, that right is a “fundamental” one, and carries more weight than society’s “abstract protection of the family.” German committee says incest is a “fundamental right” 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Some of the paintings look abstract; others suggest hazy, dreamlike landscapes. His parents wanted him to run the farm, but he had other ideas 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Those abstract paintings have a stillness that draws the viewer in with an almost meditative quality, often with soft colors and a three-dimensional look. Exploring a Transformational Period in Korean Art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

By the mid-1950s she was rendering portrait heads in brightly hued, Lego-like blocks; most of these works would read as totally abstract if not for their titles. Art Review: ‘Maria Lassnig’ Celebrates the Artist at MoMA PS1 2014-03-27T21:52:41Z

Paintings realist and abstract will rub shoulders with sculpture, installations, video and performance art. The Week Ahead: Nov. 4 — 10 2012-11-05T18:54:20Z

Their reasoning was that she wasn’t a truly abstract artist because she was representing the spiritual realm. Judy Chicago on Rescuing Women From Art History’s Sidelines 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Organized largely according to subject matter, this show plays down that physical process and stints on Warhol’s influence on abstract painting. Art Review: ‘Regarding Warhol’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-09-13T21:37:57Z

While Hesse gave it a subtly surrealistic combination of industrial and erotic qualities, LeWitt favored a more purely abstract approach. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z

Born in Cuba in 1926, Ms. Sánchez began her career as an abstract painter and set designer working within politically radical circles in the years before the revolution. Art in Review: Zilia Sánchez 2013-06-13T20:50:12Z

The three solo shows at Hemphill Artworks don’t add up to an overview of the evolution of abstract painting, and aren’t meant to. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

The effect is of an indoor abstracted landscape, with the scrim functioning as sky and the beam and line providing shifting horizons. Art Review: Robert Irwin’s Light-and-Space Work Returns to the Whitney 2013-07-25T20:59:01Z

And, like Adams, she works with household and mass-market objects to make works that are formally abstract yet charged with memories and histories of people in South Africa simply trying to exist on the land. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

These are represented using more abstract and poetic imagery. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

On the way, you pass a dazzling collection of reddish, weathered sandstones, which look like abstract sculptures. A Portugal of Pristine Beaches, Tiny Villages and Little Else 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

It represents her initials, OK, with ancient rock-painting complexity, and she wore it vertically to make it more abstract. Georgia O’Keeffe, Stylist and Curator of Her Own Myth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Often in an abstract work, that comes as the ballet unfolds,” he said. PNB to premiere Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet 2013-05-22T23:10:53Z

Across some 70 works we see 11 of the artists who formed the group’s early reputation, ranging easily among abstract painting and sculpture, installation, environments and performance. Japanese Gutai in the 1950s: Fast and Fearless 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

At just over 6 by 8 feet, it is a pivotal painting in the history of American abstract art. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

De Kooning was declared, by an approving, territory-marking Clement Greenberg, “an outright ‘abstract’ painter.” Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

More than 200 photographs, graphic designs, abstract art, books and films created by Mr. Klein, who is 94, will be on display at the center from June 3 through Sept. 12. After a Storied Career, a Nonagenarian Photographer Returns to New York 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

This means, inevitably, that her triumph would be a more ambivalent victory than that promised by the abstract idea—or ideal—of the first female President. Hillary for President: No Joke 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

This feeling is enhanced by the fact that Bob Crowley’s set is dominated by an abstract neurological model of the brain, which hovers over a minimally furnished stage. In Tom Stoppard's 'Hard Problem,' a Search for Certainty and Order 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

In its completed form, the book is quite different from this penciled draft; it is abstract, fabulistic. Exhibition Review: The Morgan Explores the Origins of ‘The Little Prince’ 2014-01-24T00:34:37Z

In a clattery, uptown bistro, not far from the studio where he once watched his father paint bold abstract masterpieces, Earl Davis contemplates the greatest loss of his life. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z

Nominally the subject was lingerie-meets-tuxedo dressing, masculine and feminine, but on a more abstract level it was oppositions, good and evil, and the endless choices we face in these areas every day. From Givenchy and Alexander Wang, Competing Visions of New York 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

One pullover parka that looked like an abstract landscape was made from 46 kinds of fabric; another contained 150. A Fashion Show That Pretty Much Was a Work of Art 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

By turns playful, aggressive, experimental, abstract and conceptual, the sounds accompany, confront, prolong and reinforce the visual works. In Transit Blog: Champagne House Outside of Paris Hosts Sound-Themed Art Show 2011-11-15T11:00:11Z

The question isn’t abstract: Both Woody Allen and Roman Polanski made movies that came out recently. Perspective | Movies have become their own form of justice, even when they don’t make it to the screen 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

O’Mara’s reliance on statistics and scientific data makes his investigation come off as abstract. How Walking Changes Us 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

His early abstract paintings were seldom shown in public until he was in his 80s. Gustav Metzger, provocative artist who developed ‘auto-destructive’ art, dies at 90 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Battling with technology that was never intended to produce abstract soundscapes, he would create dazzling effects which pass in a moment. The flat-pack Stockhausen 2010-07-12T21:00:00Z

Aitken, 48, is a landscape artist of sorts whose work explores the abstract, ephemeral terrain of the mind and our fragmented, collective digital consciousness. Sneak peek: Doug Aitken's 'Electric Earth' will shake the MOCA landscape 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

His stories are fables about human progress—concretely imagined but abstract, even parable-like, in their sweep. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The painter Nengi Omuku, whose works of abstracted, fragmented self-portraiture explore mental health and fractured identities, is organizing the renovation, by artists, of a building at the city’s main psychiatric hospital. Lagos, City of Hustle, Builds an Art ‘Ecosystem’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Her first solo show, which took place in her hometown, Atlanta, featured abstract etchings. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

She created a fanciful print featuring abstract lovers and another one with bunnies. For here or there, `resort' clothes are wearable 2012-06-22T17:16:04Z

But amid the Victorian gothic, no structure is quite as eye-catching as the Johnson Museum of Art, an abstract concrete tower that looks like someone forgot to fill in the floors. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

He did the same two years later for the Tod's store on Tokyo's Omotesando shopping street, using only a slender skin of concrete in an abstract pattern of tree branches. Toyo Ito: the 'dropout robot' who never tires of reinventing himself 2013-03-19T12:03:06Z

In its abstract way French used words "like coins as values of monetary exchange", he felt, whereas English "was still at the swapping stage". The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Peter Manson - review 2012-06-15T21:55:09Z

The artist was famously averse to abstract painting, which he considered solely decorative. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z

Petric’s images are unique, often abstracted configurations that are generated from the algorithm. Can art help fight climate change? These 4 Seattle-area artists think so. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Suddenly, the most sacred genesis tale of Modernism — the invention of abstract painting — has acquired a female actor who actually got there several years ahead of the revered triumvirate of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

It is actually impossible to argue with someone who refuses to experience the power of abstract art, because to feel it you have to let yourself go a bit. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z

Herbert Matter, from Switzerland, made abstract photographs of white fabric twirling in deep black space, which ended up in ads for stockings. The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Universal extended schooling trains many more people in abstract thought, be it through Algebra I or role-playing in social studies classes. Are humans getting smarter? 2013-06-03T20:25:00Z

Mr. Sondheim says he’s always most comfortable when he can create for a specific character instead of an abstract type or emotion. | 'Sondheim on Sondheim': Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams at Studio 54 2010-04-23T02:50:00Z

The lobby’s gray tones continued here, setting off dark furniture, abstract art and a retro clock. An Artsy Hotel Brightens the Scene in Ohio’s Capital City 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

And this is not just because of the light, airy, daringly simplified, almost abstract paintings of sand, sea and sky that characterized his last decade. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Its effects are often almost visual, akin to those of a large, abstract video work, with continuously changing shapes and colors. Music Review: Sounds of a New World, a Few Years On 2011-03-29T21:50:16Z

His quickfire watercolours of Parisian cabarets presage abstract expressionism, and here he focuses in and out of the scene like a cinematographer. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z

This abstract trench – or big silent 1 – is at its simplest and purest in this early example of his decisive style. Man Ray does glam – the week in art 2013-02-08T16:01:44Z

But this is an immensely creative threesome, with Guy's combination of abstract percussive vehemence, cello-like purity and avant-swing an inevitable focus. Agust? Fern?ndez, Barry Guy?and Ram?n?L?pez: Morning Glory ? review 2011-01-06T21:31:00Z

“This isn’t an abstract threat Trump is making – it’s very real.” 'I too have a dream': the podcast showing Trump the truth about US immigrants 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

At one end of the spectrum of possible “Satyagraha” productions is biopic; at the other, abstract ritual. Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass’s ‘Satyagraha’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

This sounds worth exploring, but remains an abstract profundity. Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

"The Great Society," being more widespread in its concerns, needs more human textures to keep from seeming abstract. 'The Great Society' a bustle of history lacking full LBJ picture 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

In response, he took to writing secret, tweet-size messages to Castro on the reverse side of his abstract embroideries, literally hiding subversive content in his art. A Bumpy Journey From Havana to New York Ends at ‘Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In fact, it seems to obscure the question: The more Chuck becomes known to Hannah, the more the women who accused him become abstracted. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

He captures what he cherished – concrete things like a house or a garden – in increasingly abstract, vibrant paintings. Remember the bad and the good times to build your future 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

It becomes abstract, which I would like to do more of. How Rollerblading Propelled Maxwell Alexandre’s Art Career 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

But the character’s presence is inherently abstract, a curious haze of memory and imagination that’s too thinly sketched to carry the emotional weight. Review | Constellation Theatre’s ‘Moon Man Walk’ stumbles through a cosmic voyage of love and loss 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

And all that abstract talk about time passing and frozen and resurrected? Review: ‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Above the abstract territory, these hint at dawn and sunset. In the galleries: A ‘Homage to Hillary’ is repurposed 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The work I tended to like was abstract — difficult, often impenetrable pieces whose formal complexity seemed to elevate the art to something more than the mundane. Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling) 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

In the living room, for instance, all the moldings are original, though there is something curiously hip and abstracted about them now. T Magazine: The Reinvention of Beige 2013-12-05T20:16:25Z

That meant a sleek coat, with pants or a skirt folding back in a flap at the midriff to reveal knits with snowflake or more abstract patterns. Special Report: Red Carpet Fading Away 2010-03-08T18:30:00Z

Shows at the new gallery have included contemporary Chinese and Middle Eastern art and American abstract painting and sculpture. 2009-12-03T23:00:00Z

As a public art pioneer, Morandi and his work bore the brunt of debates not only over the value of spending public money for artwork, but also the value of “abstract” art in general. Tacoma ‘Sun King’ sculpture comes out of storage 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The flowers have become light as air and almost as abstract. Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dal?, Magritte, Mir? and the Surrealists 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

But she liked to mix narrative into her verse, and always felt that she had trouble handling abstract concepts without attaching a story or a character to them. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The paint-by-numbers pictures happily accepted the popular dismissal that a child could make abstract art, while invoking Marcel Duchamp's dictum that the audience completes the art. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Sometimes all the colors came together on one dress, like a modern abstract painting. Mulberry, Illincic wrap up London Fashion Week 2012-09-19T01:16:05Z

The abstract pictures from western India reproduced in the book may be geometrically more diverse and ritually more specific than the “Homage” studies, but both kinds of paintings share a basic function and drive. Art Review: ‘Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper,’ at the Morgan 2012-07-26T23:09:42Z

The music exhibits are organized around five main themes, ranging from the roots of African American music to its global influence to more abstract themes like the concept of agency. The challenge of presenting ‘African American music’: First, define it. 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Beginning in 1950s, you see Mr. Davis’s dense compositions, abstract with a realist core, start to untangle. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The other long track, We Drift Like Worried Fire, is more abstract but no less suggestive: it is the sound of innocent people being hounded by malevolent social forces but somehow, together, making an escape. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z

I know that I won’t feel fulfilled until we have children – and the abstract idea of us doing so is utterly pleasing to me. I dread a baby coming between me and my husband | Mariella Frostrup 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Has he merely reduced the figurative particulars of Matisse to a set of abstract shapes that no longer function as representative elements? Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibition documents a one-way love affair 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s, rugged and remote Cuenca was the cradle of Spanish abstract art. Overnighter: Modern Art Amid Ancient Stone in Cuenca, Spain 2011-01-28T19:55:00Z

A giant drop-in art workshop will present opportunities to turn found objects — spools, wood blocks, metal — into holiday sculptures; make light-inspired abstract paintings; and contribute to a huge communal menorah collage. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

He spent his first year doing abstract painting, then dropped that for good. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

I was intoxicated by the sense of boundless space and ambiguity projected by this disembodied, almost abstract landscape. Hilary Spurling's top 10 unputdownable Chinese books 2010-05-11T10:30:00Z

“Desire is too abstract to measure,” Thea Cacchioni, a sociologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, recently told Bloomberg News. For a Happier Life, Have Sex Once a Week 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Although in 2013, there was an exhibition of works by Pre-Raphaelite painters full of richly narrative and emotional religious imagery, Stewart turned instead to abstract colored paper works by Ellsworth Kelly. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Monochromatically “black” statues have much the same “abstract” power as white ones, so the problem is racism — the freighting of aesthetic ideas with cultural, religious, racial and political implications — not the particular color in question. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

"Any schmoe can buy, and appreciate, a pretty painting, while spending millions of dollars on abstract art might display a combination of wealth and discernment," writes Bloom. Why modern art is all in the mind 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

The initial work that resulted from this awakening wasn’t overtly topical, but it was about as far from being abstract as she could get. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

That part in the abstract about patients with “rapid responses, prompt symptom resolution, and durable CRs” — the disappearance of all evidence of disease? My “truly remarkable” cancer breakthrough 2013-05-17T11:45:00Z

Along with a few other supervisory figures, they succeeded in giving the performance a distinctive texture and even an abstract narrative arc. Music Review: The xx Play to Small Audiences in a Big New York Space 2014-03-20T11:33:13Z

And I’m hoping to create an immersive environment that deals with that abstract experience of discovery.” Inside Art: Sarah Sze to Represent U.S. at Venice Biennale 2012-02-23T23:02:00Z

Before Clarke bought it, the house belonged to the artist Arshile Gorky, a survivor of the Armenian genocide whose colorful, surreal paintings foreshadowed abstract expressionism. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness.

Four dark bronze vessels from 1991 allude to Mr. Nagle’s obsession with the teacup, whose elements — bowl, volume, handle — he kept in abstract rotation for years. Review: ‘Ron Nagle: Five O’Clock Shadow,’ Delicacy and Tension on a Small Scale 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Plot points can be explained with greater clarity than they could through abstract movement. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

“These are abstract landscapes embedded with pieces of the land itself,” says Scott, “with red streaks referring to native blood spilled.” At the Autry Museum, artist transcends the expectations of the label 'native artist' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

For his new documentary, “Aquarela,” he used roiling seas, frozen lakes, collapsing icebergs and coral reefs the way an abstract expressionist might use oils — but at great risk. How Do You Film Water in Its Many Forms? Very, Very Carefully 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Tilmans is not the only German making a splash with a large abstract work. RA's 'sprawling' Summer Exhibition 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

They’re the ne plus ultra of profundity in music, the classical style pushed to the very horizon of experience by abstract thought and free-spirited bravado. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

In the magazine world, he became known for his ability to translate abstract concepts into powerful images. Horacio Salinas’s Charming Carnival of Creatures 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

According to his notes, one was a famous woman abstract painter; Cahalan looked into every well-known female artist from the period, only to hit a dead end. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Listening to de Blasio’s words, I was struck by his slick and merry gliding from the particular needs of a struggling community to the abstract Newspeak of Silicon Valley, promising at once everything and nothing. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

War is fought on many levels — the abstract and theoretical as well as the personal and immediate — and it encompasses a whole range of responses. ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

"Inherent Vice" references and evokes plenty ‎while being its own oddball, abstract, inscrutable thing. NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Chapman started painting still lifes, moved to abstract work and then gained some prominence for her photorealism. How an assistant to famed D.C. artist Gene Davis earned her stripes 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

After a while it hit me: these abstract objects displayed tastefully among her lush tapestries attempt to imitate the great American artist Cy Twombly. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z

It is abstract for my children as is the Holocaust. Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ergüven, talking from her home in Paris, says she had long had an abstract desire to tackle the question of what it is to be a woman in Turkey. Deniz Gamze Ergüven: ‘For women in Turkey it’s like the middle ages’ 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Their hectic patchworks of tomato reds, lush blues, peppermints, peaches and pinks recall American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell's most vivid, sun-drenched creations. Artist of the week 195: Alexis M Teplin 2012-06-21T12:59:44Z

She continued to paint in an abstract expressionist style and in later years made box assemblages reminiscent of Joseph Cornell. Adele Mailer, Artist Who Married Norman Mailer, Dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Whether you’re looking at a contemporary abstract work or the most lauded classical sculpture in history, slow art creates space for empathy. The ‘slow art’ movement isn’t just about staring endlessly at paintings. It’s also about accessibility. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Standing alone in the Rothko Chapel in Houston when I was 22, I finally understood that abstract painting could be an emotional, even spiritual, experience. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Later paintings display an extraordinary handling of color as she filters Northwest landscapes through an abstract impulse. Art books for the holidays: Gauguin, Dal?, Maria Frank Abrams and more 2010-12-02T00:40:00Z

Knowing how an event occurred removes it from the realm of abstraction — and genocide has, unfortunately, become an almost abstract term. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Patha painted this abstract while in the master’s program at the University of Washington, where she was advised to tone the color down. At Tacoma Art Museum: Camille Patha’s vivid ‘Punch of Color’ 2014-02-27T22:26:49Z

But if the parts are erratic, the whole is an endearing portrait of an idiosyncratic personality, now addressing itself to personal as well as abstract concerns. Simon Munnery ? review 2011-02-14T22:30:01Z

The concrete is clearly not natural, but its rhythms and textures are read as an abstract version of a rock formation. This unusual garden style could be a sustainable solution for urban landscapes 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

There’s no such thing, Chiang said, but the idea appealed to him in an abstract way. Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

It's nothing but quiet music and abstract visuals – sometimes a kaleidoscope, sometimes some fish – that lasts until dawn, and it's utterly mesmerising. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z

These surreally abstract games will serve as a corrective. Virtual Reality: From Guitar Gods to Birds of Prey 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“I can only think of you in the abstract.” Kim Gordon, Ex-Sonic Youth, Never Trained for This Career 2013-09-06T15:39:47Z

What’s more, as he retreated from the world, his writing grew increasingly solipsistic and hermetic, his mastery of the vernacular giving way to more and more abstract language. Books of The Times: A Biography From David Shields and Shane Salerno 2013-08-25T21:13:01Z

It includes nearly abstract pictures of objects, weirdly vivid advertising photographs in saturated colors and kinky female nudes. Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

There's patience and sensitivity and raw nerve, and it's good to see this kind of focus on the abstract, particularly when your life has become hopelessly concrete — and whose hasn't? My new TV addiction: Bravo's "Work of Art" 2010-06-05T22:01:00Z

He returned to New York in 1964, by which time his work was abstract and included drawings involving grids and random words. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

He went on to show at the prestigious André Emmerich Gallery, known for championing artists associated with Color Field painting, a postwar abstract style unrelated to race issues. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

These terms basically support whiteness by rejecting, or devaluing, all other forms of experience, especially minority experience, because these other experiences are not abstract, they’re too subjective. How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

He puts a big magnet on top of a television, and the picture is distorted into an abstract form that looks like a Brancusi or an Arp. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z

The Uruguayan artist melts natural forms into abstract compositions that employ mostly pale, earthy colors. In the galleries: Melding sound and art 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

“With animation you are always abstracting: you’re abstracting the human face, abstracting the performances, the design, what audiences pay attention to. You’re not being absolutely specific.” Abduction, imprisonment, Taliban: the cartoons keeping it real for kids 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

As an artist, she is best known for her large, labor-intensive abstract drawings, which she covers in silvery thickets of rapid pencil strokes. Now Serving | The Art of Kn?del 2010-03-10T21:02:00Z

I call myself an abstract painter, and he's one of the greats, so he's definitely an influence. Knockout. Hero. Genius: Cy Twombly 2011-07-06T20:30:03Z

It is the latest work by the abstract artist, who died in 1986 aged 88, to be targeted by thieves. Henry Moore sundial sculpture stolen from museum garden 2012-07-13T18:50:42Z

Mr. Larson’s prints include photographs, fragments of text that function like concrete poetry and abstract patterns made, for instance, by crumpling paper and feeding it through the machine. Review: In William Larson's ‘Fireflies,’ Fax Transmissions as Art 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Why we like her: For her current show, Skyfolds 1941-2010, which is full of glimmering silvery embroidery that suggests torrential downpours, ghostly visions or abstract expressionist paintings. Artist of the week 194: Jessica Rankin 2012-06-15T15:38:31Z

Throughout the show, whether in abstract paintings or sculptural installations, art and activism blend. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

What appeared initially to be a totally satisfactory abstract design with brilliant colors shimmering from the canvas, will upon closer attention suggest two figures standing facing each other. At Cornish College, a vivid Robert C. Jones retrospective 2014-02-21T00:05:15Z

The modest, soft-spoken Dow is quick to point out that the work - a distinctive abstract piece titled The Warrior - was not placed in the museum's permanent collection. Beav's brother Tony Dow now an abstract artist 2012-09-22T19:46:03Z

Lichtenstein is a conceptual artist who uses conventional representations to explore his abstract concepts. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z

Along with Jonathan Glazer's abstracted exploration of alien consciousness in "Under the Skin," these films helped set the stage for a year of challenging, original works. Crop of 'New Dangerous' filmmakers take edgy to new levels 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

In a rapid alchemy, the abstract and seeming opposites "work and lust" are transmuted into "metal and paper" – money at its most tactile. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z

One of these paintings, a graffiti-sloppy abstract, inspired the new album, lending the record its title and cover artwork. Ronnie Wood announces solo album 2010-08-24T13:25:00Z

If his outlined fields brought to mind an abstracted soccer — or, as he would insist, football — field, it was not surprising. Alan Uglow, Abstract Painter, Dies at 69 2011-02-02T05:47:58Z

It is an abstract, almost nostalgic desire – a pull toward a different, simpler world. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Complete and concise histories of the same crime could be marketed as separate publications, and publishers augmented court testimony with additional arguments, abstracts, confessions, and letters from the involved parties. The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Prints appeared on suits, sometimes almost dye-like, abstract or with knots. Giorgio Armani presents a 'Rhapsody in Blue' at Milan fashion show 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Looking at an original Shermund drawing is fascinating, almost like looking at an abstract painting; her placement of lines seems at first questionable, then perfect. The Lovely Nineteen-Twenties Flapper Cartoons of Barbara Shermund 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

In the abstract, cancer creates a sense of urgency. 'Alice & Oliver' is like 'Love Story,' but with more grit and less sap 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Watching Devin Welch murder Keith Richards' combination rhythm-and-lead style, it hit me that Welch's usual gnarly avant-garde technique is abstract Picasso, but he's also early realistic Picasso, master of the fundamentals. Tips from "The Rolling Stones" -- Seattle's premier Rolling Stones cover band, playing Capitol Hill Block Party July 22 2011-06-13T17:53:15Z

This was an era when the abstract held sway in modern dance, but here was something arch, theatrical and, most shocking of all, funny. Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures; Ballo della Regina; La Sylphide – review 2012-05-26T23:05:53Z

Bright abstract patterns evoke African and Latin American painting, with the shiny acrylic paint matted with cotton flocking, for paintings that take on the texture of fabric. Datebook: Experimental photography, stitched portraits, night of stories 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

“Refuse the Hour,” which required an hour and a quarter to accomplish its task, was then meant to make this abstract concept of what it means for time to be malleable into something material. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

In response, Miller made three large abstract paintings: “Prophecy,” “Sanctum” and “Atonement.” John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

It's a remarkable mess, like abstract collage versions of metal jams. Essential tracks: Kacey Musgraves offers straight talk in new song 'Biscuits' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

In recent years, he has moved in a more abstract direction, because "there's a bigger span if you get rid of the narrative," he says. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Many of the recent pieces are small and on paper, as the earliest ones were, though they include abstract patterns that probably wouldn’t occur to a young boy. In the galleries: ‘Strictly Painting’ is anything but 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

His one-man exhibition at that gallery in the spring of 1967 was a defining moment in the history of British abstract painting. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

“If you look at a dollar, it’s portraiture, it’s landscape art, it’s abstract designs. “I think people need to think more about money. J.S.G. Boggs, Artist, Dies at 62; He Made Money. Literally. 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

They explain that they lean toward formal, abstract sorts of art, avoiding Pop Art, for example. 51 Contemporary Artists, but Just Three Women 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

But most psychologists who study borders today see a more abstract relationship between those structures and mental health. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Whether you’re looking for abstract art, landscapes, or a custom piece like a foil map of the recipient’s hometown centered around the address you provide or a custom house portrait, Minted has you covered. 10 décor gifts that make perfect Christmas presents 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Architectural theories involving autonomy and critical distance basically support whiteness by rejecting other forms of experience — the Black experience, the Native American experience — because these other experiences are not abstract, they’re too subjective. How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

They are geometric, hard-edge and abstract, with compositions that radiate from their centers and palettes dominated by secondary colors — particularly orange and brown in the 1970s. Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Other sounds — a bell, a bullwhip, a half-valved trumpet moan — enter the music strategically, as references to his lyrics of violence and discomfort, or as characters in a kind of abstract audio play. Popcast: The Myth of Scott Walker 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Tenderizer,” occasionally accompanied by screened fragments of Hitchcock’s “Marnie,” “The Birds” and “Psycho,” plunges into, and abstracts, their psychological dramas. Review: The Spirit of Hitchcock, Distilled Into Dance 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

This is not an abstract art film, as one might expect from the man who filled a vast space in London’s Tate Modern with 100 million hand-sculpted and painted porcelain sunflower seeds. 'Human Flow,' Ai Weiwei's feature-film debut, takes on the global refugee crisis 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The digital works, shown on monitors about six feet tall, look like colorful abstract paintings marked with dots and vectors and constantly changing colors that reflect the shifting ocean conditions. ‘More Blue’: An Artwork Shows the Sea Changing During Lockdown 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Pot Plant “shifts cannabis from something that is abstract to something that is physical and tangible,” she said. What’s the Point of a Fake Pot Plant? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But it’s not a portrait of Mandelstam, it’s a movie about Mandelstam’s ideas—or, rather, it’s about Josh’s big sociopolitical and aesthetically sophisticated, oblique, and abstract ideas, insofar as they overlap with Mandelstam’s. Noah Baumbach’s New Movie “While We’re Young” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Rooms are devoid of art, but dried paint on my dirty floor-to-ceiling window added an unintentional abstract effect. A Montreal Hotel So Modern That Room Service Is by Robot 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Word got around among black artists that I bought abstract art,” Mr. Ollie said. Nights at the Museum: Good for Cultivating an Art Habit and Romance 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Far from a realist, Martin combines graffiti’s childlike directness with abstract expressionism’s spontaneity. In the galleries: A towering exhibit offers a new definition of domestic life 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The music is abstract and alluring and remains one of Stockhausen’s most durable scores. The Hot List: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Philharmonic 360,’ at the Armory 2012-06-21T21:31:01Z

The London auction house said Monday it is offering a drawing by the talented but fictional American abstract expressionist Nat Tate. Sotheby's to sell real drawing by fake artist 2011-10-17T10:51:08Z

Are the nerdy but muscular pop star and the Mediterranean wild child, considered in the abstract, mightily attractive people? "Friends With Benefits": Justin and Mila in the other, other sex-pals movie 2011-07-22T18:05:00Z

Any suggestion that an abstract canvas shared DNA with textiles, furniture design or the “minor arts” was therefore anathema. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Acknowledge its urgency, its complexity and the fact that to many in the audience, it may not be so abstract. No More Gang Rape Scenes in Ballets, Please 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

According to Gwynne, the phrase "to relate abstract ideas to their experience, lives and activity" requires "something of a struggle" to find a genuine meaning. 'Illiterate' letter wins campaigning professors an award for bad grammar 2013-05-03T10:18:21Z

I’m making this sound more abstract than it is. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z

She performs a kind of alchemic conversion from abstract theories of power to very human lusts and appetites, where costs are paid in the flesh. 2 Novels by ‘Alternative Nobel’ Winner Take On Power and Its Abuses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Today Miró, a genuine pioneer and forefather of abstract expressionist art, is revered in Spain. New Europe: Juan Mir?, a titan of art whose presence is still felt 2011-03-30T06:00:03Z

Colorful, abstract, round tondos will also be part of the exhibition. A Favorite Son Steps Front and Center in Chicago 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The year of the most recent piece in the show, an abstract color aquatint by Dorothea Tanning titled “At These Rites.” National Gallery of Art showcases Kainen collection

The works in the show range across genres and mediums, including abstract paintings, traditional figure studies, collages, documentary and art photography, and sculptures both fanciful and figural. An Exhibition Whose Curator Is 17 2011-07-09T05:02:48Z

I never intend to make them abstract, but it's difficult. Delorean: 'We're a friend alliance first, a musical project second' 2012-06-20T14:26:00Z

But she also paints heroic and godly figures from Judaism, Buddhism and the ancient Egyptian pantheon, as well as an abstract Islamic design. Review | In the galleries: Three local artists explore the transient nature of identity 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The wall becomes something to outwit: an almost abstract challenge that will not be ignored. ‘Omar’: A wall of betrayal divides Palestinian rebels 2014-02-27T22:36:52Z

She is abstract art, a construct of colour and couture. My favourite Hitchcock: Marnie 2012-08-13T08:31:07Z

The current array, chosen by the Australian curator Henry F. Skerritt, and hung last month, focuses on contemporary Australian Aboriginal abstract painting. ArtsBeat: Aficionados on Walkabout at Art Basel Miami Beach 2013-12-05T20:20:02Z

The show’s many abstract tunics are just as forceful. Art Review: The Power Suits of the Past, as Worn During Ancient Empires 2011-04-22T21:48:37Z

They were abstract, and they engaged with the history of 20th-century abstraction. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

They are totally abstract, virtually unprecedented for a church. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Visually arresting, technically ambitious and personally urgent, it can feel like a missing link between the abstract expressionists of the postwar years and the minimalists and conceptualists of the ’70s and ’80s. Perspective | Jack Whitten: once neglected artist lately the toast of the art world 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

All of them sold, with a new auction high for Helen Frankenthaler, whose “Royal Fireworks,” a spectacularly vibrant 1975 abstract, sold to a telephone bidder for $7.9 million, more than double the high estimate. Art Auction or Game Show? Sotheby’s Tries Something New 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Pain can be normalised until quiet fulfilment seems, if not entirely abstracted, just tedious. From Love to Girls – what TV's most toxic couples can teach us 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

As the D train crosses Brooklyn, riders see a gallery of multicolor landscapes, floral prints and abstract drawings. Art installations make New York’s subway stations galleries on the go 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The work, the artists say, is an attempt to bring together their city, Mecca, and Venice through an abstract sculpture onto which the artists will project images and sounds of the two cities. Echoes of Political Unrest at Venice Biennale 2011-05-25T20:49:54Z

Kennedy no doubt believed everything he said about art, at least in an abstract way. Perspective | John F. Kennedy became a hero to American art lovers — but he wasn’t one himself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

In itself it is too abstract, too cold and impersonal for his romantic, Hollywood-Shakespearean sensibility. | 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps': The Pride That Went Before the Fall 2010-09-23T16:10:00Z

Is there not an abstract, random, blot-like quality to their arrangement? The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z

He painted on the side, in an abstract, nominally Cubist style. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

“We realized as we came into an administration that had more of an affection for abstract art that we really needed to update our list,” Mr. Allman said. This Museum Has a Lived-In Look 2011-03-15T10:00:00Z

The closer that McBride gets to his goal, the more abstract the story becomes and the more uninteresting. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

There were maybe half a dozen interstitial parts involving Super 8-like, grainy-color videos, or dancers moving in various styles to an abstracted bit of melody, or modest light shows. Music Review: Beyoncé’s Return to Stage Is a Return to Familiar Form 2012-05-26T08:21:01Z

Durant bent over, looked down and in the hardwood floor allowed himself to see the abstract shape of the milestone before him. NBA Finals are irrefutable proof that the United States has undergone a radical reorientation of the extraordinary 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

“But I did feel like it would be fun to attack it in a new way — not to make it abstract again, but REAL. To be more in-your-face with the oddity of it.” At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway

Other canvases are dense with metallic leaf and pigments, suggesting abstract expressionism as refashioned by someone with a Midas touch. In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch

“Transparent Forms,” a Condo abstract oil on canvas in gorgeous soft pinks and yellows, takes up one wall in the foyer. When Contemporary Art Speaks to This Collector, She Listens 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Ellsworth Kelly, whose deceptively simple use of color and shape made him one of the past century’s most significant and enduring abstract artists, died Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y. Ellsworth Kelly, abstract artist of enduring influence, dies at 92 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

“So often the process of creating can seem really abstract,” she added. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Marla Olmstead sold her abstract paintings for thousands of dollars when she was just 4 years old, but, years later, a “60 Minutes” segment and an investigative documentary questioned if her father guided her brush. Six-Figure Artworks, by a Fifth Grader 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

The new Wayne Shorter Quartet started out playing versions of those tunes, like “Footprints” and “JuJu,” often modified or abstracted to the point of near unrecognizability. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

If it is meant to be a modern-art abstract then I guess it works. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

The resulting white plates seem abstracted and slightly spooky. Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“I’m not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work,” she said on a sunny afternoon at her Upper West Side penthouse. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z

In the 1960s, his work grew more abstract. Wynn Chamberlain, an Artist in Paint, on Screen and in Novels, Dies at 87 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

Even when painting is abstract, he seems to be saying, color never really is. Art Review: Following a Painter?s Options Beyond the Canvas 2011-08-04T22:00:30Z

Sanna imbues the tale with details gleaned from true refu­gee stories, and her art — with abstract lines and sweeping curves, geometrical, angular figures and warm, muted colors — conveys every emotional moment. Best children’s and young adult books 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

The question became more than abstract this week when I faced a discomfiting truth. Perspective | What defines a ‘must-see’ movie? And does ‘Infinity War’ make the cut? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Many retailers prefer abstract mannequins for reasons of aesthetics and cost, a consideration as they shift more marketing dollars to online sales and reduce display staffs. The World of Mannequins 2010-05-05T21:23:00Z

The songs were more abstract and less melodic than anything on “Body Talk,” the 2010 album series that made Robyn a star. Robyn and Röyksopp: robot pillow talk & more at Marymoor | Concert review 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

But I think you've always got to write something prompted by an emotion as well as a kind of abstract kind of argument. "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

None of that would matter without fine performances, and the father-son casting, which in the abstract seemed gimmicky, turns out to be highly effective. Review: In ‘Chester Bailey,’ a Case of Physician, Shrink Thyself 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Like Joseph Cortina, Michael Spears paints abstracts that convey a strong sense of motion. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the tension between physical and digital art 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

I totally believed in gay rights, I believed, in the abstract, that marriage equality was a basic right and that stories of gay people being kept from their partners’ deathbeds were a travesty. Outrage culture changed the world: “PC” critics are wrong — marriage equality happened because activists used shame and rage 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Certain arrangements of paint suggest figures or objects, she said, through tacitly agreed conventions – but in the end, all painting is about relationships of colour, shape and line, whether abstract or figurative. Bridget Riley presented with Sikkens prize for her work in colour 2012-10-29T21:28:17Z

The hard lines of the outlined bodies contrast loose, sometimes watery areas of color, although not all the latter are abstract: The patterned background of one consists of hundreds of pink and green sperm. In the galleries: Where nature and art come together

In the background is the dancer La Goulue, while the room itself melts into a curtain of abstract colour. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z

The intent may be purely abstract, but there’s a hint of Caribbean landscapes. In the galleries: Inspired by their homelands and beyond 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

And artists have been selling abstract rights rather than objects for a century. Beeple Has Won. Here’s What We’ve Lost. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

It’s clad in shadowy gray precast, thickly grooved concrete panels spectrally embossed with abstracted roses that refer to floral decorations on historic buildings in the neighborhood. Sugar Hill Housing Will Have a School and a Museum 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Richter stepped in, lending a print on aluminum of “Annunciation After Titian” that he made in 2015, and a dozen other works — some with figurative imagery, many abstract and never before exhibited. Titian and Gerhard Richter: Keeping Faith With Painting, 5 Centuries Apart 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

She painted a lot of abstract stuff, but oddly this one is a naked woman on a red background. Zoey Deutch Enjoys ‘The Joy of Cooking’ and the Occasional Tracksuit 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Both pictures are partly abstract yet precise in their implications. Review | In the galleries: ‘Habitats’ at Target Gallery showcases the nature of creativity 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Inspired by that coast and Manhattan’s architecture, he turned out the modern, often abstract works — 60 on view here — that made his reputation. Promising Exhibitions From Coast to Coast 2011-03-17T04:45:08Z

Like the organic forms in Krasnow’s sculptures, the abstract shapes in his paintings lock together in a unified, balanced whole. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

On the less impressive side are enamels that seem to aspire to the condition of Modern easel paintings, encompassing subject matter both abstract and figurative. Craft & Folk Art Museum weaves 'Little Dreams in Glass and Metal' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

He’s won 16 large outdoor public art commissions since then - some abstract, others figurative - including works at Reser Stadium at Oregon State University, the Capitol Mall in Salem and Portland State University. Tacoma ‘Sun King’ sculpture comes out of storage 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The large ones include so many of these figures that they form abstract patterns. Artist Devin Troy Strother's raucous, rollicking extravaganza in Santa Monica 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

As often, in this sonnet, abstract nouns are favoured to good effect, giving the reader space in which to translate them into imagery. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z

"I've always thought it was really strange that artists made paintings and threw away the palettes, because the palettes are like happenstance abstract wonders," he says. In Pictures: Ryan Gander in Manchester 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The moves are magnificently abstract, and, in the end, "Sharks" is all the more gripping because of it. Catch 'Sharks' before it swims away 2011-06-03T16:28:51Z

A dual personality results: The resemblance to tapestries is slightly archaic; the anarchic, abstract profusion seems completely of the moment. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The previously abstract dilemma of how to cope with a potential time bomb inside one’s body was now horribly mine. My decision to keep my breasts: When Angelina Jolie’s choice is different from your own 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

And it's almost a decade since annoying tech-marketing types started using "mobile" as an abstract noun, referring to the end of computing as a desktop-only affair. SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z

It’s a dull joke, but it suggests that if Mr. Colen were content just to be an abstract painter, he’d do O.K. at it. Dan Colen Creates an Elegy for Dash Snow 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

A 2013 exhibition at the Flowers Gallery consisted of painted frames within the canvas defining a central abstract image. Richard Smith, British Painter Who Turned Toward Pure Color, Dies at 84 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Bule’s restaurant job brought her intimate knowledge of the tenacity and exploitation underlying more abstract debates about immigration. Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

But there's a good reason for that: none of those couples make the mistake of actually singing about their relationship, except in the most abstract terms. Can music and marriage mix well? 2010-05-05T14:48:00Z

But it’s still a bit abstract and the cultural and ethnic divide allows them to couch their arguments in different ways that confuse the issue for most people. Radical right, radical hypocrisy: Same-sex marriage masterstroke exposes extremist agenda 2014-04-29T11:43:00Z

What if women were not just abstract objects to possess, but people with their own agency and motive force and career goals? Review | ‘By Force Alone’ is an exciting and wickedly funny reimagining of the King Arthur legend 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

There's a satisfying balance of concrete and abstract. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z

Many readers found his verse highly abstract and often obscure. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

They don’t discuss abstract philosophy; their chief concerns appear to be the maintenance of the coffee urn and the arrangement of the chairs. On Adjacent Stages, Two Haunted Houses, Circa 1882 and 2019 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

But the many characters and relationships are too shallowly written to allow us to care about them other than in the abstract. Review: ‘Vilna’ Takes Jewish Prisoners on a Desperate Quest 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Many founders of the movement — Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still — stuck unswervingly to signature abstract styles won through long apprenticeships. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Jackson Pollock’s works typically get “abstract art,” “New York School,” “splattered/dripped,” “repetition” and “process-oriented.” Art.sy Is Mapping the World of Art on the Web 2012-10-08T20:57:27Z

Later, his focus shifted to portraying angular street scenes and city parks that seem convulsed in movement, animated by abstract slashes or sweeping zigzags. At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

During the Christmas holiday of 1915, she—isolated, intent—created a series of abstract drawings that was the first to define her as an artist. The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

He staged huge parades for child martyrs, and festivals for a new state religion that glorified an abstract Supreme Being. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Besides rose and black, dove gray and an abstract flower-print pink were other alternatives. Special Report: Fashion: Ready for the Red Carpet 2011-01-27T18:36:35Z

Its cover art shows a missile, the world, and a mathematical grid in an abstract freestanding relationship with one another. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z

But this abstract vision of the artist misses the point entirely. Marc Chagall: should Tate Liverpool really call him a 'modern master'? 2013-06-05T13:17:44Z

The abstract work, made up of nearly 5,000 irregular red tiles, was commissioned by the architect Welton Becket for the Pasadena office of the Mutual Savings and Loan Association. Adding a New Name to the Canon in Clay: Doyle Lane 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

A teacher gave him a pass to go to the Museum of Modern Art, where he was first exposed to abstract art. Freddy Rodríguez, Artist Who Explored His Dominican Roots, Dies at 76 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Unable to do abstract math, he was forced to find a new career. | Scream Sorbet 2010-10-08T21:30:00Z

But soon wordplay gives way to works that delicately balance the aesthetic experience of abstract form against the easy familiarity of everyday things. Art Review: An Artist Who Makes Much Out of Very Little 2011-06-30T22:05:51Z

Some of his works hang in her apartment — bold, abstract paintings, and a pen and ink sketch of a scene in Antalya, Turkey. At age 101, this woman released her first collection of poems 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z

As abstract as it is, the choreography builds emotion through repetition and allows sensation rather than words to guide the story. Netflix’s ‘The OA’ and the Transformative Power of Dance 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The earlier ones are human, the later ones abstract. Anna Karina on love, cinema and being Jean-Luc Godard's muse: 'I didn’t want to be alive anymore' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Fusing these disparate things yields pictures that are both spontaneous and monumental, like the more solemn examples of abstract expressionism. Review | In the galleries: Julia Mae Bancroft stitches the past to the present 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Many of the works demonstrate a similar logic, reducing or transforming the description into a completely abstract representation. Last Chance: ‘Raw/Cooked: Ulrike Müller’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-06T22:21:20Z

He took limos everywhere and presented himself like an abstract canvas. David Bowie: Invisible New Yorker 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

"In my operas, in contrast to my choreography, even though I rely on abstract movement, I also respect characterization," she wrote. Trisha Brown Dance Company brings familiar favorites, world premiere to Seattle 2011-03-26T01:04:18Z

“He’s always been more interested in the abstract, and he draws a lot from painting,” Mr. Baryshnikov said of his father. Up Close : The Marginalized, Front and Center 2013-07-31T20:00:36Z

“It’s actually very painterly, like an abstract painting, but it will change all the time,” Christo, a Bulgarian-born American citizen, said of his project. Christo’s Newest Project: Walking on Water 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Her abstract yet clearly botanical drawings incorporate soil, tannins and plant pigments as well as pencil and ink, and the centerpiece of her show is a massive wall piece of leaves, pods, flowers and such. In the galleries: Semi-fictional streetscapes resemble stage sets 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Byrd’s other dances were abstract, but this one was about human connection and separation. A grand duo in Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater and Attacca Quartet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

So it takes him only a few sentences to domesticate the abstract idea of credit-default swaps. Books of The Times: Roger Lowenstein Traces ?The End of Wall Street? 2010-03-31T22:53:00Z

Each has this abstract space – no walls, no place – like a Velázquez. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Cage’s experimental influence can be felt everywhere in Hunt’s work, from videos in which he carries on absurd conversations to musical scores that look more like abstract drawings. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Asked whether any had ever declined to be profiled by him, he could think of only one: Cy Twombly, the magisterial abstract painter, who died in July. Calvin Tomkins Continues to Chronicle Artists 2011-10-04T20:34:15Z

The rest of us can watch the mega-chains spar, jockeying for the love of some abstract ideal of a sarcastic Gen Z-er, or whoever it is they think they’re performing for. The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

No, nor are such lofty, abstract inner lives always easy to recognize as human. ‘The Garden Party’ Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

She was an airy, abstracted, confectionary presence — a case for the dangerous notion that innocence is the best defense — and you would have thought a little of her would go a long way. Review: Hip-Hopping With the Stars in ‘Half Time’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zorn’s short abstract piece has no words, just a vocal line for solo soprano singing all manner of “ah” sounds and vocal gymnastics. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

All these artistic affinities are happenstance, though Fischinger was well acquainted with abstract art. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z

Since its inception, abstract painting in the West has given as good as it has gotten. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

Sex seems to be on Lee's mind today, albeit in a typically abstract way. Ethereal girl 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

The Jesuits, after all, were a religious order—the greatest one of the day—whose purpose was saving souls, not resolving abstract, technical philosophical questions. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

Constantin Brancusi is an obvious inspiration for many abstracted forms in five complicated wood sculptures from the last five years at Jason Vass Gallery. Douglas Tausik Ryder's curious wood sculptures at Jason Vass Gallery 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The study ranges from the nineteenth-century work of Eadweard Muybridge in confirming the results of horse races to the comparison of lines in the abstract to their practical application in tennis. Highlights from the Third Week of the New York Film Festival 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Fair enough, since the show contains some abstract, impressionistic depictions of Vietnam War atrocities and some garden-variety nudity. Mandatory Viewing: Nancy Spero’s Bold Feminist Art 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

They shed special light on a crucial period in the development of this firebrand painter and lifelong abstract art denier, who, despite quite a bit of exposure, has yet to receive his due. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The Letters, particularly in its opening minutes, conveys a sense of abstract menace reminiscent of Pinter or Mamet. A Stage Triumph in Chicago: The Letters — Menacing Head Games in Stalin’s Russia 2013-01-29T15:30:58Z

I find it’s abstract enough not to feel like work, but interesting. Review | A former congressman asked his old colleagues for book suggestions. Here’s their list. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

West, who didn't say when he had considered suicide, is credited as director of the abstract 35-minute film, which features portions of nine new West songs, boldly colorful visuals and off-kilter camera angles. Kanye West says he had considered suicide 2010-10-19T16:01:00Z

It’s an abstract journey that, by the end, they are emotionally moved in some way. Dance of the District 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

This is true of the night-time heavens depicted in the Hall of the Ambassadors, but also of the way the apparently abstract ornamentations and decorations invoke the natural world with exotic floral and vegetal motifs. Exhibition Review: Temptations Found in Gardens of Islamic Delight 2011-05-20T23:27:00Z

This show, although it excludes his formative representational paintings, covers Arp’s early Dadaist and Surrealist and later abstract periods and is fairly comprehensive. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Considering its origins as an abstract musical, eschewing traditional plotting and consistent characters in favor of thematically connected vignettes, Jason Robert Brown’s “Songs for a New World” is an inherently malleable work. Review | Monumental Theatre’s ‘Songs for a New World’ vividly imagines a better tomorrow 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

In its third and last room a show of many surprises concludes with yet another one: a sampling of the abstract painting that Mr. Condo has been doing almost since he career began. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z

It went from seeming abstract and theoretical to being about a kind of desire for quality. | Michelle Grabner on Christopher Williams’s Vivid, Exacting Photographs 2014-05-09T13:00:48Z

This almost abstract style, Ms. Berliner said, was a philosophical reaction against the tradition of realism. How ‘Bambi’ Got Its Look From 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Art 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

In Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park Series the abstract is in constant conversation with the figurative. Paper Gallery: Art Books: ?Spider-Man,? ?Supercell? and More 2012-03-08T22:24:41Z

He brought anime into our visual language and this poetic interpretation, "the void," which was like an abstract, experimental theater interpretation of boxing. "Like photographing sculpture": Cinematographer reveals what makes "Creed III" look so good 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

People, in all their troubled, moral complexity, matter more than laws and abstract principles do. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Rather, it is about the relationship between abstract reasoning and visual imagination at a time — not long ago — when the most advanced theorizing in math and physics seemed to defy visual representation. Art In Review: ‘THE ISLANDS OF BENOîT MANDELBROT’: ‘Fractals, Chaos and the Materiality of Thinking’ 2012-10-04T21:12:39Z

The descriptions of RyuGin’s courses are wonderfully abstract: Dishes have names like “Coolness Warmth Playfulness Nostalgia and Temptation” and “A Message From the Coast of Japan.” A $1,000 Day in Tokyo for $100 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

But even in its most abstract mode, On Fillmore put on a real show, with both of its members periodically walking out into the crowd. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z

When the abstract painter Mark Rothko visited Pompeii he was entranced by this painting. Red is the colour of sex – and the colour of money when it comes to selling art 2013-06-12T14:16:24Z

Sérgio Sister is a Brazilian artist best known for making geometrically abstract paintings and sculptures. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Behind him hung a photograph from Merians’s last art show, an abstract image that, given the hour, seemed to the metaphorically inclined to show a sun sinking from a purple sky into a purple sea. Turning the Torture Report Into a Book 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Sometime in the ’60s, it seems, subjective consciousness replaced abstract form as the main object of exploration. Last Chance: The Pace Years: When One Gallery Is Not Enough 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

Orra’s diagrams for Edward’s natural history and geology lessons are almost wholly abstract, and often reduce the natural world to bands of solid color, outlined with lines of black. Mushrooms, Magma and Love in a Time of Science 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Those efforts include floppy female half-figures from the “Bunny Gets Snookered” series and the abstract, coiled knots of the strikingly expressive “NUD” pieces, which can suggest entangled couples, malformed fists or Matisse sculptures. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

There’s a hint of landscape in Wendy Plotkin-Mates’s abstract paintings, which are often thickly textured and in extreme vertical or horizontal formats. In the galleries: Art history slapstick 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The resulting videos feature playfully patterned building-block-like shapes floating around, falling into place, then falling away again, as they continuously construct and deconstruct abstract structures. Seattle’s Oxbow gallery offers an unusual way to support artists 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Gordon played the role of outsider in Danish art, unaffected by events within it, his paintings in the style of postwar abstract impressionism based on literature and music. Gordon Fazakerley obituary 2011-08-11T17:21:27Z

A series by Nobles, “As I Sit Waiting,” presents video and audio of interviews with women about their experience with access to abortion, as well as sculptures that resemble abstracted waiting room chairs. An Idaho College Removes Artwork About Abortion, Citing a State Law 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

In the wittiest of the photos, two ant-size humans seem to teeter on the apparently hard-edge crest of a massive dune, dwarfed by both nature and abstract forms. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The second and more abstract idea is that the Puerto Rican realities, present and past, thrown into relief by Maria are also the realities of oppressed countries and cultures across the globe. Puerto Ricans Expand the Scope of ‘American Art’ at the Whitney 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

I started to feel like I was asking a lot of questions and I was in a medium that’s more abstract, where less is more. Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Judith Pratt’s abstract drawing is large in scale but simple in its recurring patterns. Review | In the galleries: Even when extravagance is the theme, less can be more 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Santos Silva’s work, whether stylized figurative portraiture or abstracted lightscapes, is imbued with that same sense of dynamic suspense. In Transit: Showcasing a Portuguese Artist Working in Paris 2011-04-08T10:00:04Z

The actual fish and chips arrive separately in a pail: breaded pollock like a midweek kids’ tea and fried abstracts of swirly potato tendril. David Shrigley at Sketch, London W1 – restaurant review 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

His furniture designs for the house were also among his most innovative, especially the tall, elegant chair backs — abstract designs based on hollyhocks. Cultured Traveler: California Houses as Celebrities in Themselves 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z

Unlike service, which is technical and easy to describe, hospitality is abstract, harder to define. What Is Hospitality? The Current Answer Doesn’t Work. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Massive sheets and rolls of photographic paper are beautifully distressed by baroque cross-associations between recognisable photographic male nudes and an elaborate network of abstract chemical stains, evocative silhouettes and deliberate technical errors. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z

The last decade’s obsession with process and abstract photography is one explanation. Review: Barbara Kasten’s ‘Set Motion’ at Bortolami 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

But like most of Godard's work since the late '80s, this really belongs to a different tradition: It's an abstract experimental film, a work of Pop-Situationist-conceptual art or a politically driven video essay. Cannes: Godard, still alive and still baffling 2010-05-18T15:30:00Z

With an estimated value of $185 million, the Pietzsch collection includes works by Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro as well as American abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. Berlin's Botticellis, Rembrandts entangled in protest over move 2012-07-14T23:39:03Z

The history of postwar American abstract painting remains a work in progress. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Projected onto the wall over it are changing compositions of flat, colorful abstract shapes and a simple mask with eye holes and an oval mouth. Art Review: Trisha Baga at the Whitney, Greene Naftali and MoMA PS1 2012-12-27T22:07:57Z

He said that that each of the paintings, including the less naturalistic and more abstracted “Starry Night,” contained a pair of cypresses, one tree taller than the other. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

On the wall are two abstract paintings from 1958, demonstrating that William was one of the first British artists to embrace abstract expressionism. Block rocking dad 2013-02-26T08:36:22Z

Sewn together from pieces of canvas, batting, tarp and other pliable materials, with acrylic applied in places, they’re big and roughly geometric, purposefully imperfect and allusively abstract. New York Art Galleries: The Virtual Experience 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

She is judgmental about bourgeois privilege and consumerism, but her only serious political discussion with Olive is an abstract discourse about creation and destruction inspired by drawings in the Morgan Library. Bombs and Bank Robberies: A Political Novel of the 1960s 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

At the time, Moore was already hailed for his figurative and abstract wood, bronze and stone sculptures, modern carvings that were influenced by archaic and pre-Columbian figures. Lauren Bacall's idol? Letter reveals it was British sculptor Henry Moore 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The walls were hung with small abstract paintings in brown and orange, each carefully framed. I walked away from my Pentecostal faith to live my own life — and nearly lost myself 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

“There are times I’m maybe wanting to work on abstract side, but people will always find political agenda,” Abraham says by phone from L.A. as his company tours. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

They should ensure that clear English abstracts and keywords from their papers are available; this may be more important than the original abstract itself. The giant shoulders of English 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Something you are trying to figure out and, as abstract as it may be, it gets answered in a song or a performance. TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe on using a "weird gaslighting technique" in new film "Ultrasound" 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

She was talking about Frank Stella, the American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor, whose work is all over the museum until July. The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

But the dominant works here are 11 large, colorful, intricately patterned prints that bring to mind checked or plaid textiles, abstract paintings and, in one circular instance, the Maya calendar. Art Review: Trisha Donnelly in MoMA’s Artist’s Choice Series 2013-01-02T15:59:43Z

With their vivid hues, poured pigment and formidable size, Tzu-Lan Man’s paintings resemble abstract expressionist canvasses. In the galleries: Small universes and a large cosmos at Greater Reston Arts Center 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

They are powerfully flat, more literal than abstract. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

When the gallery was first established in 1993, said Rana Snober, its chief executive and daughter of Ms. Orfali, Jordanians were not too enthusiastic about abstract art, but she has seen them become more appreciative. Middle East: Iraqi Artists, Actors and Designers Try to Build New Lives in Jordan 2011-03-23T19:29:27Z

Now, decades after the suffrage movement, and women’s lib, and the sexual revolution, the abstract idea of “the wife” still looms large in our cultural imagination—and sanctimony, loyalty, and resentment orbit her like moons. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

He has four abstract paintings in the show. Meet the Artists in Mickalene Thomas’s Orbit 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The forms are abstract, but the Baltimore artist strikes a note of simulated realism by painting shadows under some of the squiggles, producing the sense that they hover above the rest of the image. Review | At the galleries: How humans threaten the natural world 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Diebenkorn went back and forth between representational and abstract work before ending up firmly engaged with abstraction during the final decades of his life. Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibition documents a one-way love affair 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson, who was also an accomplished abstract artist, died in 2017. A Painter Who Puts It All on the Line 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

“When my wife met me,” says Katz, “she said, ‘I thought every intelligent painter would be painting abstracts. Alex Katz at 88: Portrait of the artist unable to slow down 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

They prefer flat blocks of color and cartoon-style outlines to graduated modeling and shading, and they splash and drip pigment with the abandon of abstract expressionists. In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

It encompasses painting, sculpture and mixed-media assemblages, in both abstract and representational modes. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

“But train songs are so much more abstract. If you think about a song like ‘Folsom Prison Blues,’ by Johnny Cash, that’s actually a train song. Billy Bragg’s Railroad Songs 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

From 6,000 miles away, abstract reflections on the strength of Senegalese institutions crumbled instantly before the assault of apocalyptic headlines. My daughter’s Ebola scare: Why we’re not ready to panic (yet) 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Whether they make subtly abstract sculptures or paint colorful scenes of their own lives, the artists have one thing in common: a belief in art’s power to heal. Museum Shows With Stories to Tell 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Among the seven O’Keeffe works to be featured is “From the Lake No. 3,” an abstracted landscape of the area around Lake George, N.Y., where O’Keeffe and Stieglitz spent summers. Georgia O’Keeffe in a New Light, Hawaii to New York and Between 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

They were less enamoured of his abstract experiments in the 1960s, in many of which unidentified shapes float in colour fields, and of the calmer, more minimalist work of the early 1970s. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

Nixon held a more specific and less abstract contempt for his perceived enemies, especially specific reporters and media outlets. HBO’s ‘Nixon by Nixon’: On tape, the heart of darkness

Personifications abound, and abstract statements prevail over elaboration of concrete detail. Poetry of the Taliban - review 2012-05-25T21:55:05Z

Among the best of them was “Ocean Park No. 89,” a 1975 painting from the artist’s celebrated series, this one an abstract image of a sunset. All 43 Works From Bunny Mellon’s Collection Sell at Sotheby’s Auction 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

A group of 24 are part of a 2022 series titled “Black Vessel for the Traces of Our Young Lords and Their Spirits,” whose abstract forms evoke both the body and the funerary urn. Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Employing stark, somewhat abstract sets and costumes that blend realistic and surreal touches, the production plumbs the teeming yet murky emotions of the opera. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

For works that are so purely abstract, they’re oddly full of personality. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Greenberg’s personal preference was for more impressionistic, abstract designs that evolved during a cake’s decoration as his muse beckoned. William Greenberg Jr., Baker Who Sweetened Manhattan, Dies at 97 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Also an effective fertilizer, Mr. Eliasson said, it offers an abstract commentary on “the gardens’ role as a symbol of the king’s fertility, the idea of fertility at the expense of our society.” Olafur Eliasson Envisions a Spectacle in Versailles 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

The colorful abstract painting, in which Mr. Hantai bunched up the canvas, creating an overall abstract pattern, may appeal to younger artists today because many of them are taking a new look at abstraction. Inside Art: At Cosmopolitan Resort in Las Vegas, Yoko?s on View 2010-08-05T21:30:00Z

"There's definitely a womb-like quality. You feel free and vulnerable. There's sound and light, but it's so abstract that it's divorced from meaning.... It's like living inside of a poem." Floodwaters make statement in 'Holoscenes' at Museum of California Art 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Signposts were abstract, indicating the trail, but not mileage to the next town. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z

To this end, she writes tear-stained letters to abstract, high-up Army entities, begging for reassignment. Bored to Death in the I.D.F. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Rather than the all-over, canvas-filling brush strokes favored by other abstract painters, Mitchell’s works were looser, gathered away from the edges. The Roots of Joan Mitchell’s Greatness 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Modern abstract painting was by then institutionally encrusted with metaphysics. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

While each piece of each puzzle is a pleasant-enough abstract painting, taken together they add up to far more than the sum of their parts — especially with titles that seem to set them into play. Artists at Seattle's Foster/White turn books into art 2012-07-19T20:12:11Z

They’re among the strongest parts of this record, both abstract but in different ways: the first one elegant and the second one squirrelly. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

It may sound strange, but for all her success, and all the attention to her cosmopolitan sources, Mehretu has been consistently underestimated as an abstract painter. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Pedro Key last year allowed the artists to paint the facade of his house with abstract figures that still catch the eye of passersby. Artists use street murals to change image of violent Caracas slum 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The flower was a nice bit of cross-referencing: the loopy 1960s daisy with a more abstract variety. On the Runway Blog: Prada's New Flower Power 2012-09-20T19:59:38Z

Across town, Gagosian Beverly Hills displays more strictly abstract work from his final decade. Cy Twombly in Los Angeles: Cheeky, Challenging, Classical 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

It is as if the eye did not “see” what was before it, but only what the brain selected to “see”—abstracted images of an intricate reality, a kind of Platonism of the “real.” Poisoned Landscapes 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

But what goes on in the precincts is more abstract this year, thanks to the large number of mail-in votes — many of which won’t be calculated until after the in-person vote. How is TV news going to cover the weirdest, most fraught election in history? All of your questions answered. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

The abstract idea of being a star is someone who transcends and in a way is immortal. Delroy Lindo on his "Da 5 Bloods" pro-Trump role: "He felt reviled because of his love for America" 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her paintings have toyed with unlikely intersections of architectural space, abstract patterns and textile prints. The Artist Testing the Limits of Ceramics 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

With him, I stay abstract, I try to be a pathway to heart and soul. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard, the interview: 'It hurts, there is pain, there are blessings' 2012-08-16T04:25:00Z

It was in 1961 that she abandoned figuration for her abstract works, initially in black and white only, moving on to using colour in the late 1960s. Early Bridget Riley works to go on show at National Portrait Gallery 2010-04-26T17:47:00Z

A long time ago, abstract painters talked freely about freedom. Tomory Dodge puts freedom back into the picture at Acme 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Areas of flat color are adrift with abstract and representational elements as well as writing — passing thoughts, the news, quips — often partly submerged in the shuffle of erasures and new additions. Review: Squeak Carnwath Speaks With Her Varied Palette 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Projecting slides through spinning, cutout wheels, he gradually shifted from abstract fields of color and shape to an old-school psychedelic anthology of occult, religious and surreal imagery, all in frantically flickering juxtaposition. Review | With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The focus is post-2000 abstract work from all over Latin America, giving the Phoenix Art Museum its first works from Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. Spring Shows to Keep Art Lovers Busy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Both artists present sound in abstract form, as notion. Art Review: ‘Soundings’ Features Art With Audio Elements 2013-08-08T20:41:20Z

On the walls hang large, vividly colorful paintings composed of greatly enlarged marks copied from Bushmiller’s versions of abstract painting. Jayson Musson: ‘Exhibit of Abstract Art’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Yet perhaps the contemporary label was what released Ms. LeCrone into a welcome hint of drama, a poetically ambiguous hand-on-a-shoulder that she beautifully abstracted by repeating it with two trios of unequally mixed genders. Dance Review: From Emery LeCrone, Two Dances to One Bach Partita 2014-03-25T21:50:23Z

It’s not just a matter of abstract principle or journalism-school morality. This American Life?s Apple Retraction: The Danger of Truthiness 2012-03-16T19:32:44Z

It was abstract expressionism, but the tune, “To See/Tootie,” never sealed itself off, inviting engagement instead. Music Review: A Melting Pot of All Kinds of Rhythms, Harmonies and Vamps 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z

The audience encircling the musicians was in turn surrounded by eye-catching abstracts by the French painter Jean Miotte on the walls. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z

It’s always quite an important choice: How abstract or real do you want to be? ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Throughout his career, De Keyser remained in debt to the heroes of abstract expressionism, even though his work consciously eschewed the large scale of Mark Rothko or Barnett Newman. Raoul de Keyser obituary 2012-10-14T15:40:33Z

If the pictures that result distill natural phenomena to their essential qualities, they appear less abstract than archetypal. Review | In the galleries: Even when extravagance is the theme, less can be more 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

It is a little moody, not super bright, although I did an abstract floral print inspired by Paul Klee. Browsing: Track Pants Are Evergreens 2010-05-26T20:57:00Z

The first is a tribute to the seminal exhibition Bradley curated 50 years ago, showing abstract works by 18 Black and white artists side by side in Houston. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Three days later, movie officials reported a second theft: a 150-pound abstract art statue that was stolen from the vicinity of a cemetery. ‘Beetlejuice 2’ Props Are Stolen From Set, Police Say 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

They're essentially big balls of black fur with neon teeth, so visually solid, almost abstract, that they appear to absorb light. Cut-rate budget, first-rate frights 2011-08-05T23:30:00Z

Unfolding with a reticence that’s occasionally confusing, “Les Cowboys” presents a suggestive, almost abstract take on terror and the generational toxicity of bigotry. Review: In ‘Les Cowboys,’ a Girl Vanishes, and Her Father Can’t Bear It 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

A lot of music was abstract yet absorbing. Noon to Midnight, L.A. Phil delivers new music (and free ice cream) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

The American abstract show has garnered tepid reviews. 2009-12-03T23:00:00Z

Yet her standing sculptures complement the other artworks, thanks to shared concerns with natural and abstract forms. Review | In the galleries: Synthetic consumer products prove to be a natural medium 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The book fulfills a longtime goal of the artist’s daughter, Emily Mason, a New York abstract painter who worked closely with Rizzoli on it but died in December before its completion. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

It is this collection that dominates the film’s visual field: a smorgasbord of surrealism and abstract expressionism. Before Amy Schumer and her “160 pounds and can catch a d*ck” swagger, we had this amazing sex-positive feminist role model 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

So maybe in some abstract way that helped me — although angry — not be bitter. He served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement. He was innocent of the crime. 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

But it may also be seen as an abstract essay in rhythmical, colored movement. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z

The conflicts didn’t feel abstract to me then. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Some liken looking at color field or abstract expressionist paintings through a pair of shades to sitting through a symphony in noise-canceling headphones. Dear celebrities (and everyone else, too): Stop wearing sunglasses at museums! 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Typically, thousands of years of history and a few museum floors would separate say, “The Temple of Dendur” from a painting like “Rising Green” by abstract expressionist Lee Krasner. Review | Miss visiting museums? Engaging with art on a small phone screen can actually be rewarding. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The 40-minute Piano Quintet is even more remarkable: it's an attempt to translate the experience of war into abstract instrumental music. Koechlin: Piano Quintet Op 80; Quartet No 3 – review 2013-06-05T15:08:25Z

Skarstedt offered 10 new vibrant acrylic abstracts by the artist, as well as two large-scale resin sculptures, all of which found buyers, according to the gallery. Brexit? What Brexit? The Art World Carries On Unfazed at Frieze London 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

A number of abstract psychological concepts remain popular because they satisfy the need for consistency among the investigator’s semantic networks. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

The squat, abstract piece, waist-high and hefty as a boulder, features two interlocking, acid-green ceramic forms that undulate like the hills of a lush volcanic island, perched on a curved steel-and-wood foot. Arlene Shechet Creates Beauty Out of Chaos 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Either way, her show, like several others in New York galleries over the last few months, indicates the adamant strength of abstract art by women. Art in Review: Rebecca Morris 2011-01-06T22:09:45Z

Louis Dudek, a literary critic who focused on modernist poetry, once described Mr. Hine’s poetry as “a series of extremely recherché, abstract, contrived word forms, containing oblique and ambiguous philosophical essays and meditations.” Daryl Hine, 76, Poet, Editor and Translator 2012-08-25T03:43:30Z

The songs were often abstracted, but “Maybe,” which closed the set, unfolded on deceptively simple terms: a quarter-note melody, played by Mr. Speed with sighing restraint, before an eventual onrush of distortion. Music Review: Three Bands, Floating Their Music on a Cool Breeze 2011-06-12T22:53:07Z

Jamie Bond and Natasha Oughtred's account of the lyrical second movement, however, is very fine indeed, with her nervy vulnerability perfectly counterpointed by his elegant line and cool, almost abstract, presence. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Through her photographs, she transformed abstract mechanical and optical principles into perceptible and concrete phenomena: revolutionizing science and photography both. In Transit Blog: Photographer Who Captured America at the Jeu de Paume 2012-02-27T15:45:26Z

There are some longueurs in its later galleries, replete with dozens of later abstract paintings and reliefs: so many dancing circles, so many boogieing lines. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

I note that he considered free will “one of many abstract matters in the Bible” whose meaning “remained elusive and about which he would consider himself a skeptic if the church allowed it.” Letters to the Editor 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

“In my view — perhaps in no one else’s — there is a very abstract quality to all my movies,” Mr. Wiseman said. Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

I want to see that translate into change with prison reform and education reform, and not this abstract thing. Kehinde Wiley on Protests’ Results: ‘I’m Not Impressed Yet’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

From the outside, it has the austerity of a monolith, a concrete tower reachable only by a long dirt footpath through fields of wheat, with a steel triangle for a door, like some abstracted steeple. How Can I Avoid Feeling Lonely When All My Friends Are Coupled Up? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perry attacks the screen with the slashing strokes of an abstract painter on a tear, filling the frame with sweating bodies, giant heads, claustrophobic rooms and singularly unromantic glimpses of New York. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

As she puts it in her introduction, the concerns of her subjects “were not abstract to me.” Going for Broke, the Middle Class Goes Broke 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

In impressive new textile works, Jordan Nassar employs tatreez, Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery, to generate fields of ornate geometric patterns and interrupt them with insets of evocative, abstract landscapes — hills and valleys, the sun and sky. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

It is one in an iconic series by the Dutch-American abstract expressionist that explores the female figure. Recovered de Kooning painting back in the spotlight 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

On to Henry David Thoreau and artist George Catlin, who dreamed of national parks in the abstract. Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Over the fireplace, where a Gainsborough portrait once hung, a bright red abstract canvas by Reinhart makes for a somewhat startling centerpiece. In London, Embassy Residence Is Showcase for American Art 2011-02-28T21:27:00Z

“The material being abstracted may actually bring the work up a notch,” Mr. Swing said. Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

But this array — diverse in both style and subject — also encompasses Leonardo da Vinci, Marilyn Monroe and a certain U.S. presidential candidate whose hair is abstracted into a yellow pop-art swirl. In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

They explore traditional African themes such as motherhood in both realist and abstract forms which periodically catch the eyes of curators in far flung Western capitals. Zimbabwean artist's dynamic stone sculptures find global acclaim 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

There’s a relatively figurative side and there’s a totally abstract side. The Surprising Tale of One of Frank Stella’s Black Paintings 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Ron Nagle’s tabletop sculpture, from which the show takes its title, is both a three-dimensional picture and abstract tableaux. 'Pavlova's Dawg and Other Works,' a group show that's playful and profound 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The contribution of the third creator whose work will go into the pavilion, the performance artist and theater director Pauliina Feodoroff, is more abstract, but no less politically grounded. At Venice Biennale, a ‘Different Notion of Nation’ 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

Clare doesn't believe in God at all, but is undoubtedly a nice person who likes being nice: "I relate to people rather than abstract ideas," as she put it last Sunday. Rewind radio: Good Morning Sunday; Pity the Poor Soccer Stars; 5Live Breakfast: Your Call – review 2013-01-26T22:30:01Z

The photographs were then digitally altered, creating the abstracted patterns that now appear on a series of thick cotton fabrics woven on a jacquard loom. Martyn Thompson’s New Paint-Splattered Fabrics 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Akram’s first piece for the company, “Dust,” was transformative for us, and I knew he had an amazing capacity for narrative, and an abstract, spiritual side. ‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

“She only paints in abstract and minimal ways. This is very unusual. A lot of contemporary artists use the old techniques but almost always figuratively, which is its origins.” Rediscovering the Joy of Japanese Art in London 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Radiohead made its songs jitter and crackle, with new electronic overlays and abstract funk rhythms dancing through paranoia and foreboding. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Festival, With Radiohead, Phish and D’Angelo 2012-06-11T22:47:19Z

“I thought it would be fun to just get kind of abstract and make it a fantasy dream sequence in a way, not literal,” he told TrekMovie.com in 2019. Douglas Trumbull, Visual Effects Wizard, Dies at 79 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Figures depicted in thin brush-strokes — a crying baby, a reclining man — are overlaid with inches-wide, barely translucent swathes of dark ink that seem to point toward the abstract possibilities of the human form. At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z

Moore should be happy, but he's greedy for power: as he puts it, he wants to be a verb, not an abstract noun. Thrillers: review roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z

He took lessons from it: He turned up his color, broke down and abstracted his forms. Review: ‘Van Gogh and Nature,’ Exploring the Outside World in High Relief 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“We invented abstract art, and we are still doing that kind of silly stuff.” Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The black-and-white, documentary style, almost anthropological in tone, is one of the great screen treatments of a novel, faithful to the book while putting a face on the abstract. ‘Lord of the Flies’ and More From Peter Brook at BAMcinématek 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

This minor manifesto, embedded in a draft of his first novel, conceives of a book with greater intellectual and artistic ambitions than Hemingway ever produced—one akin to the more abstract fictions of the modernists. Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions in "The Sun Also Rises" 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Duffy aims for a more abstract staging that has the vibe of experimental theater in the 1960s. Theater Review: Brecht’s ‘Baal,’ Hoi Polloi, at Jack in Brooklyn 2012-07-22T22:04:47Z

At night the abstract play of lights from vehicles and buildings, however much it may seem at odds with the nature of the presentation, generally affords edification of its own rather than distraction. Music Review: Jordi Savall Brings Hesp?rion XXI to the Allen Room 2010-05-03T22:07:00Z

On the work’s second screen her movements, again recorded by computerized lasers, register as looping, twisting, animated lines suggestive of abstract film. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

She became chief curator two years later, and she and her team gradually expanded the foundation’s purview to include a fuller range of abstract artists of the 1960s and ’70s. Yale Museum of British Art Chooses Dia Curator as Its Director 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The first problem is the story — or perhaps the larger problem is simply that of the story ballet, now back in fashion after the long reign of the plotless, abstract dance. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

This ambiguous perceptual experience is akin to looking at the paintings of Ad Reinhardt, the Abstract Expressionist master of abstract geometries enmeshed in barely differentiated shades of black. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Another time, they got together to “listen to music and see what we saw in the music or what we heard,” and then express those feelings in an abstract painting, said Arlington’s Tajai Walker, 11. Girls’ rooms and futures look bright 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Her work uses repetition as an artistic tool, becoming like abstract manifestos “as political as they are economic, reflecting subversively on social behavior and social structures,’’ the catalog said. ArtsBeat: Brazilian Artist Wins New $100,000 Prize 2010-12-10T21:37:00Z

The runway was abstracted into a series of interconnected vestibules that changed proportions from room to room, becoming smaller towards the back of the space. AMO’s Infinite Palace Runway For Prada 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

There were shaved fur shifts and rainbow-tinted abstract expressionist coats; terry tennis car coats and patent princess ones. Donna Karan, Maria Cornejo, Rodarte, Thom Browne, Vera Wang And More Show at Fashion Week 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Using mathematically calculated techniques that go back to Italian Renaissance architects Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti, he maps out abstract patterns that create vertiginous spatial illusions. Richard Wright's stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum 2013-03-14T13:19:05Z

The setting is contemporary — but vaguely so, stylized, almost abstract. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

The film is, however, immensely vague, abstract almost. To the Wonder – review 2013-02-24T00:05:30Z

The lingering absences of Aïnouz’s parents — his father, who is alive but was never around; his mother, who was always there but is now gone — give shape to these abstract and ephemeral images. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Although he always considered himself a sculptor, at the age of 51 he started to produce paintings on canvas, abstract, monochromatic, and marked with dot-like patterns. Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

In “Vane,” an off-white triangle pointing downward on a tan background reads like an abstracted bikini bottom thanks to a red fingernail-tipped digit overlapping its upper edge. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

At first, the moving "fragment of bone and muscle" seems more abstract than animal. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z

Two of the show’s most recent works, abstract “Blot” paintings from 2014-15, exploit Warhol’s late-career motif of giant Rorschach ink blots. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The images, initially so close up that they are nearly abstract, are projected on large screens upstage at the Experimental Theater at Abrons Arts Center. Review: ‘Mytho? Lure of Wildness’ Teases the Senses 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

This man is not some abstract celebrity who I've never had a personal conversation with. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Realistically and in the abstract, they depict the breadth of human experience. In Oslo, Gustav Vigeland’s sculptures capture a Norwegian essence 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The art is mostly abstract, bright and colorful, though some works include nods to football. Miami’s Refurbished Stadium Will Be Decked Out in Street Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

There was Kip Thorne, a wildly imaginative professor from Caltech whose gift for theory allowed him “to roam the vast ranges of the severely abstract.” Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

“She was a really cool woman and ahead of her time in the spiritual and abstract realms. She was New Age, in a way.” | From Acne Studios, Wearable Art by an Abstract-Painting Pioneer 2014-03-11T13:00:07Z

In the late 1970s and early ’80s, Steve Keister produced a startling series of abstract sculptures, which he displayed overhead in galleries, hanging them by nearly invisible filaments. Steve Keister: ‘USOs: 1978-1981’ 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Images of aquatic creatures and seafaring technology, derived from old engravings, complement the swirling abstract grays and blacks of von Brakle’s 3-D pictures. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

The artwork is hung between two of the living room windows, above a lovely abstract piece by Ms. Chapman herself. The Exquisite Details of a Fifth Avenue Apartment Renovation 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

“It sounds like a toothpaste brand – abstract and cold.” 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

However, Moriyama pursued his own radical approach to photography, exemplified here by the abstract work from his book Farewell Photography. Klein and Moriyama at London's Tate Modern – reviews roundup 2012-11-19T11:37:06Z

Kaiser described losing Richter — lauded for his bold experiments in abstract painting — as more of a “symbolic loss.” Marian Goodman Joins TriBeCa Gallery Throng 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

You can sponge up the Fashion Week experience in a more abstract way: through a video series of visual and thematic diaries we have been publishing daily. On the Runway Blog: Day 6 at Fashion Week: Tory Burch, Vera Wang, Rodarte, Marc by Marc, Narciso Rodriguez 2013-09-10T13:56:34Z

When we think about the work of someone in this abstract art, the intrusions of speculative biography can seem quite out of place. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z

Inspired by the example of the avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, the Vogels began exhibiting a range of movies — experimental psychodramas, poetic documentaries, abstract animations, banned French bedroom farces and forgotten classics, complete with notes. A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

His work blends the abstract with the figurative with the downright surreal. 5 artists to watch from 'The Best American Comics of 2014' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

DiCaprio is in Switzerland for the international art fair, where he’s been spotted checking out abstract paintings among other works. Leonardo DiCaprio Makes an Important Contribution to LACMA 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

“She set herself up a project early on, which was to explore materials, whether metal or polyurethane or rubber or glitter, and to test the boundaries of abstract sculpture,” Ms. Hoptman said. Art: A Life of Melting the Status Quo 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Some video works are also included, like Kenneth Anger’s 1960s film “Scorpio Rising,” an abstract, experimental film about a band of traveling gay, Nazi bikers. What's on This Week Around the World 1457-12-02T05:00:00Z

Beauford Delaney’s work from the 1930s to the 1970s spanned a range of styles, from naïf urban scenes and portraits to abstract. Beauford Delaney Returns to the Scene 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

But it does offer the real explanation for why Castor’s parents went north — a telling reminder that migrations aren’t just abstract sociological phenomena, but also happen family by family, for individual reasons. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

As the context becomes more abstract, the actors’ job gets more difficult. Review: After Apartheid, Who Are ‘Boesman and Lena’? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

There’s a theory that Cézanne viewed his human subjects the same way he did the apples and mountains in his other work: as mere abstract shapes, excuses for testing the mechanics of depiction. They Suffered for Their Cézanne Portraits 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Leiby is part of a recent spate of female artists making comedy about reproductive rights that digs into the realities of abortion today more than abstract arguments about it. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Further abstracting that experience, the screen version sometimes replaces the young cast with prerecorded adult actors performing the same script. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Here, she abstracts its elements into a calmly grand practical fantasy. Agnès Varda’s Art of Being There 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

McClodden converts handguns and parts of larger guns into reliefs using a plastic called Kydex that records but also softens and abstracts each object’s form. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

The Baltimore digital photographer captures action by whipping her camera past the subject as she opens the shutter, producing the mostly abstract pictures exhibited in BlackRock Center for the Arts’s “Amped-Up.” Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Its attempt to chronicle the war is not an abstract project: this was not just a world war, it was also a local war. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Great War Opens in Meaux, France 2011-11-12T00:48:01Z

In 1973 he paid $180,000 for Willem de Kooning’s abstract landscape “Police Gazette,” a record price at the time for the artist. Ernst Beyeler, Top Dealer of Modern Art, Dies at 88 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z

In January Rachel Rossin hosted a one-night event at Signal in Bushwick that featured one of her virtual reality projects, and now she is showing another such piece along with her near abstract paintings. In Rachel Rossin’s ‘Lossy,’ the Virtual Reality of Living in a Painting 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Though with neither dialogue nor obvious motivation, he’s less a character than an abstract mechanism to force an emotional catharsis: a trigger for mother and son to reboot and reconnect. Review: Emotional ‘Desolation’ and Woodland Horror 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

As a next step, someone might convert the McLaughlin-Landau-Platzker collaboration into an abstract film, one picture of one painting at a time. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

"As a work of art, part of an abstract history lesson set to music, ghostly echoes of the 20th century, it is mesmerising," Paul Morley wrote in The Telegraph. Kraftwerk mixes art with music in sell-out shows 2013-02-07T13:56:45Z

The violence wrought here wasn’t abstract or historical or a matter of debate. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

It was looser, more abstract, with a downbeat attitude that felt true and fresh, and masculine elements that worked so smoothly into the collection that you didn’t really notice them at first. On the Runway: Narciso Rodriguez: Not Trying to Be Groovy 2011-02-16T03:51:23Z

My Modern Met surveys the vibrant, abstract murals of Miami artist Hoxxoh. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

“I want to eat my supper in silence. I do not want to hear about somebody’s love troubles. I wish them well in the abstract, but I do not want to be part of it.” Chris Thile: Radiohead would be 'dream guest' on A Prairie Home Companion 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

For one, the market for fashionable young abstract painters underwent a correction. A Year of Highs and Corrections in the Art Market 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

In a room with abstract expressionism, women also dominate, with two works by Helen Frankenthaler, and a Joan Mitchell and a Grace Hartigan near works by Mark Rothko and David Smith. Perspective | Is Crystal Bridges, in rural Arkansas, the most woke museum in America? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Much of Dada’s original performance art seemed intent on bringing language closer to that same abstract state. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Peralta, a polymath who got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wales, is the son of the Filipino anthropologist/playwright Jesus T. Peralta and the abstract artist Rosario Bitanga-Peralta. A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Its concerns about violence and injustice in the world feel intellectualized, abstract, unreal — lost in busyness, and upstaged by a chicken. Review: ‘They Are Gone’ Is Kathryn Hamilton’s Play About Protest and Apathy 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

“What else could be in there?” wondered Ms. Sillman, an abstract painter based in New York, about the show. Meret Oppenheim, a Rebel of Surrealist Art, Wanted the Last Word 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

“But it’s not abstract at all. Every single number was a person, and one of those was my dad.” Raven Leilani, a Flâneur Who Is Going Places 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

In addition, Ms. Douglas exhibits solitary efforts: suitably modish, performative canvases in which hyper-realistic hands and feet are connected by improvised, abstract lines. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Valencia describes the work as “abstracted getting-to-know-each-other, in front of an audience.” Performing and Creating as Equals Across the Age Gap 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

But most of the paintings are abstract treatments of odorless concepts. Paul Laffoley ’s ‘Bauharoque ’: deep thoughts, pretty to look at 2013-04-18T21:49:50Z

In recent years, local artist Janis Goodman has mostly shown large abstract drawings. Review | In the galleries: The grid is the primary motif but subject to subtle change 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

And choosing something with religious associations, no matter how tenuous or abstract, is something I’ve never consciously done before – not beyond a vicarious, anthropological sense. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dale Ferguson's design – abstract white houses aggressively dumped on a floor of black earth – perhaps sounded good in principle, a concrete visualisation of the claustrophobic black and white morality of Puritanism. The Crucible – review 2013-06-28T00:38:00Z

"People don't universally understand that literature does more than inform and educate, it takes children from the particular to the abstract, an essential skill for GCSEs and university, and for achievement," he said. Spending cuts put libraries at risk, authors warn 2010-10-20T14:42:00Z

In the 1960s cultural identity and abstract painting were still widely viewed as irreconcilable. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z

In one picture, an abstract yellow-green swirl contrasts the subject’s slightly darker green eyes. In the galleries: Conversations between mother and daughter, teacher and student 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

It was a vivid red dress with a stunning abstract print, but it also left many American designers feeling snubbed. At the final Obama state dinner, Versace’s glamour shimmers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

On “The Good Wife” the city gleams with Eastern-educated power brokers who command their authority out of offices appointed with Oushak rugs and abstract art. Critic?s Notebook: Dirty Politics: From Halls of Power to Hotel Suites 2011-05-18T05:50:00Z

The prose is very plain; the characters are a little abstract; the questions they ask aren't quite as interesting as they suppose. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z

Eventually his interest in Modernist formal innovations led to colorful, Picassoesque paintings depicting domestic family scenes, often featuring young children, and by the end of the 1940s his paintings had become entirely abstract. Will Barnet, Painter, Dies at 101 2012-11-13T23:34:33Z

The equestrian simile turns an abstract idea into a strikingly concrete memory. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z

Although the superimposed forms are abstract, they evoke real organs, muscles and blossoms. In the galleries: Gordon Park’s photos from the Jim Crow-era South 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Ameur-Zaïmeche never resolves these anachronisms, instead crafting an intentionally abstract film that powerfully evokes the repetitions of history and the troubling universality of violence. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

As a quick aside, when we talk sensor size, the number that gets thrown around is pretty abstract for how large the sensor is. The hand-held camera you have to have 2012-08-05T15:59:00Z

“But art, even when it addresses political issues, occupies an abstract realm beyond society.” Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

To the inhabitants of the Niger Delta, oil is a specific, destructive, stolen substance; to Western stock traders it’s an abstract source of competitive and speculative profits. Art In Review: MARK BOULOS: ‘PROJECTS 97’ 2012-06-21T22:04:03Z

It announced her alliances with producers associated with the Night Slugs label in England and the similarly minded Fade to Mind label in Los Angeles, who favor subterranean bass tones, abstract syncopations and gaping spaces. Kelela’s ‘Take Me Apart’ Is R&B That’s Intimate Inside and Out 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Other videos hinge on monologues and dialogues spoken by eerily familiar automated voices that ruminate on punctuation and abstract, philosophical ideas of language. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

The abstract canvas of swirling ribbons in reds and blues had sold for $4 million at Christie’s in New York in November 2011. ArtsBeat: Basquiat Painting Draws Top Price at Christie’s 2013-06-25T23:22:55Z

The central work in the programme is Alastair Marriott's Sensorium, an abstract ensemble piece set to seven of Debussy's Preludes and choreographed for 13 women and two men. This week's new dance 2011-03-12T00:08:03Z

They employ the free gestures of abstract expressionism, but with a face, a likeness intruding on the pure relationship of paint to surface. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Both books received an abundance of visceral criticism, much of it contradictory: Some readers accused her of airing private grievances, while others complained her approach was too impersonal and abstract. Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

They dismissed Minimalism’s premise that art had to be abstract, laughed at the post-Minimalist belief that painting was dead and largely ignored the Pictures Generation assertion that the only good image was a photo-based one. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

It is because totalitarian, being abstract, is odorless. Books of The Times: Paul Berman?s ?Flight of the Intellectuals? 2010-05-02T21:52:00Z

“A lot of people just don’t identify with it; they don’t have a brother or father or cousin or mom in the military, so it becomes more abstract.” In the Marines, a Connection Between Art and Combat 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

Twelve middle schools each submitted about 10 student photographs, from beautiful portraits to abstract close-ups, action shots and delicious images of favorite foods. What Washington looks like, from the middle school perspective 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

The earliest episodes were an explosion of abstract animation, catchy pop music and documentary footage of kids at play and grownups at work, all delivered in short, colorful bursts. 'We know we're more than a TV show': how Sesame Street made it to 50 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

By 1953 my pictures appeared to have reached a stage of total abstraction and I was one of that very small band of British abstract artists much ridiculed by our critics ... William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

“I work almost exclusively with documentary photographs,” she said, “but he examines crystals and reflections and abstract patterns of things.” Library of Congress acquires major archive of African American photographer Shawn Walker 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

And, later in that cartoon, Woody is blown into an abstract configuration that Mr. Klein, in his article, calls “the convergence of animation and Soviet montage.” That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret 2011-04-10T22:05:14Z

In the abstract, any brand — whether it's an industry or an individual — can choose its own descriptors. Fake news and the “other white meat”: How pork became poultry, and why it matters 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

Kenneth Clark, the then director of the National Gallery, had declared Germany "very much not my spiritual home" and condemned the influence of abstract art on British artists. Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z

Earth-like circles exploded into chemical elements, abstract graphics and finally a circular keyboard that became a kind of musical space station in the cosmos. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Would he have commissioned the show if it had been presented to him in the abstract – a couple of lines pitched over a conference table? ‘You think: are we really doing this?’: how TV’s strangest shows get made 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

A glossy coat of translucent deep purple with glittering metal flakes embedded in it gives the abstract form a sensuous veneer. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z

It’s abstract on one hand and Pop on the other.” Wade Guyton’s Computer-Made Works at the Whitney 2012-09-27T12:00:35Z

Even the sketches for the National September 11 Memorial by its architect, Michael Arad, some of which are also shown here, are meditative, abstract, focusing on the gaps left by destruction. Exhibition Review: 9/11 Exhibition at New-York Historical Society ? Review 2011-09-07T21:28:42Z

Her voice was suddenly quieter and darker, and that was the clue that these thoughts weren’t abstract — that they had a specific, intimate trigger. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z

While Im took an abstract route with his clothes, hair and makeup pulled more literal cues from the world of athletics. | Siki Im 2012-02-12T19:55:05Z

Holzer didn't set out to be a conceptual artist who uses text, but rather an abstract painter. Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side 2012-06-04T17:36:01Z

While abstract, the pictures suggest storms or machines, seemingly rotating in a manner that draws the arcing fragments together. Review | In the galleries: Erika Cleveland’s ‘Healing Dolls’ are playful in their duality 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

But it could be “tricky to represent something in the abstract,” said Vyvyan Evans, a British linguistics professor and author of “The Emoji Code.” How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

He dabbled in cubism and painted in abstract black, white and gray. From Spain to Florida: new Dali exhibit begins 2012-10-11T18:13:08Z

These “Mysteries” are abstract but most resemble landscapes, and the local artist’s technique is a traditional one. In the galleries: These landscapes are something short of idyllic 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Politics is often discussed using abstract and seemingly neutral language. Forget “dialogue” with Donald Trump and his supporters: They have empowered hatred and harm 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Sure, the venerable institution brims with colorful paintings by Dutch masters and other notables, but the real jewels are the dozens of black canvases donated by the French abstract artist Pierre Soulages. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z

He is one of the major inheritors of Allen’s influence, a player who can be abstract and rhythmic and crisp all at once. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

What emerged in assemblage was a more abstract conception of black consciousness. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Dating to the early days of feminist art, this approach is exemplified by strong, symmetrical, abstract forms, references to the body, and craft practices such as weaving and sewing. What is the 'women's aesthetic'? The gallery show '3 Women' offers some answers 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

His first response was to reduce the scale of his paintings, which resulted in a series called the Hand-Helds: small abstract works mounted in wide, beautifully crafted wood frames. Art so good it needs a spoiler alert 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

As in the Apple and Gabriel plays, food is an anchor, grounding abstract and fanciful talk in the reality of subsistence. Review: Listening to ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Virgin Ears 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

An abstract puppet representing the physicist Stephen Hawking marvels over the universe. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

I realised that the Americans had made a major discovery … putting abstract painting on its right scale. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

Mr. Cline improvised freely in collaboration with the painter Norton Wisdom, creating anthropomorphic shapes out of abstract color and sound. Wilco Tinkers and Experiments at a Festival It’s Happy to Share 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

She was discussing — in the abstract, of course — the connection between her latest creations and recreational drugs. | Fashion Diary: Drug-Fueled Fantasies (Without the Drugs) 2011-03-07T22:08:44Z

The abstract painter Julie Mehretu captures the maelstrom of emotion inside the American poet Jean Valentine as she recollects a recent voyage to Greenland. | Adrift in Solace 2014-03-20T13:01:07Z

The first begins with Conner’s early abstract paintings, whose colors darken and textures turn to heavy-duty collage as early as 1954. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The next year, Celia consulted the psychic, who, knowing none of the back story, described “beautiful papers with abstract designs” — which Celia took as a reference to her father’s monotypes — and his lung cancer. A Sibling Rivalry Divides a Famous Artist’s Legacy 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Prints run the gamut from abstract to figurative, minimalist to maximalist. Increasing Exposure for Native Artists 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

By massing colours into abstract blocks rather than striving after mere mimesis, the artist offers a self-conscious commentary on the possibilities and limits of watercolour. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

She said that the abstract set and timeless costumes — including new heraldry for Arthur’s knights — “create a tension between the past and the future.” A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

The theory here is the same as in, say, painting or music: I feel that the best abstract artists are likely to be those who have mastered traditional drawing techniques. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z

So, I find anything you can do to move yourself to a more abstract space. Cate Blanchett and Cindy Sherman: Secrets of the Camera Chameleons 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

“In my imagination,” he told me, in an e-mail translated by Ken Liu, “abstract concepts like the distance marked by a light-year or the diameter of the universe become concrete images that inspire awe.” Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

But where she really excelled was in the two series of sketches: more pictorial and concrete in the “Waldszenen,” more abstract and elusive in the “Gesänge.” Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-21T20:08:54Z

Natural forms move from realistic to stylized to abstracted or from fully dimensional to relief to pierced fretwork. Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Klagsbrun illustrates how life changes both in and by her work, which itself is transforming from traditional painting into something more abstract and sculptural. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The US and Britain were very different places at the time: America was at the height of its wealth and global power, and abstract expressionism suited the confidence of this epic society. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z

Nor was he interested in mixing abstract music with abstract painting; he’d seen some of that, when he lived in Seattle, and didn’t like it. ?Brooklyn Babylon? by Darcy James Argue and Danijel Zezelj 2011-11-04T15:26:17Z

They are too abstract to say with certainty. MoMA Takes a Stand: Art From Banned Countries Comes Center Stage 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The artwork is divided into 14 panels, some of which are abstract patterns, while others are more narrative, depicting human silhouettes. Santa Monica's newest selfie moment: street art off the I-10 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

From the moment Jackson Pollock appeared in Life magazine, the New York abstract painters were revered, renowned, and part of modern American national identity. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z

In “Barbershop,” reflections from the mirrors above a worktop create a series of rectangular patterns, like an abstract painting. For Hurvin Anderson, the Barbershop Is Haven and Inspiration 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

He unpicks knotty passages and brings the meaning close to home, making the abstract seem immediate. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z

Dry firing target practice results in the seven seemingly abstract paintings here; a laser and computer program translate the infinitesimal movements of a shooter’s hand into jumpy Twomblyesque scribbles. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

In Gnosticism, for example, there is the fabulous story of the Hebdomad, seven Archons, abstract creatures with the power to create or destroy a world. Michael Scott's top 10 Doctor Who creatures 2013-03-19T16:23:01Z

Another method involved turning your desire into something abstract or not quite real. Gimme gimme gimme: how to increase your willpower 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

A tall plant blithely blocks a good portion of an abstract still life. L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky exiting as a champion of arts 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Phoenix museum displays Asian works, Geoffrey Beene couture, Arizona landscapes, American abstracts from early last century, old masters and the occasional Picasso and Warhol. Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

This explosion of animal-made abstract art — which might be likened more to the work of Franz Kline, Joan Mitchell and Wassily Kandinsky than that of Picasso or Pollock — is good for zoos’ gift shops. Answering the Many Questions About ‘The One and Only Ivan’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

This includes freestanding assemblages and wall sculptures, both figurative and abstract, that combine natural and discarded elements to riff on classical architecture, the nature of portraiture and colonization. Datebook: Jimmie Durham's long-awaited U.S. retrospective, masculine and feminine and the nature of translation 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Paradoxically, for a film named for a place, the new film is the more abstract, the more archetypal, the more generic film—like Scorsese’s “The Departed,” it’s a genre film, a classical melodrama. Kenneth Lonergan’s Devastating, Liberating “Manchester by the Sea” 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

It is highly cerebral, thick with abstract and erudite dialogue and also full of charm and sensuality, lingering in landscapes and rooms and savoring the pleasures of music, color and talk. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The biggest insult you could deliver to an abstract painter was that his art — I use the pronoun advisedly — was “decorative.” The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Ms. Versace wisely turned the detail into abstract swirls set into coats and mini sheaths, sometimes interpreted with a coiling bit of colored python on a knee-length black or white sheath. On the Runway: Versace: New Baroque 2011-02-25T23:33:36Z

One–off Radio 4 doc which sees Jarvis Cocker pay tribute to the postmodern author, best known for his tough, abstract novel Trout Fishing In America. Catch-up TV guide: from Labyrinth to Plebs 2013-04-06T05:00:04Z

Danny resists commitment, but it seems to be because he thinks guys are supposed to do that, and Debbie’s desire for domesticity seems similarly abstract. Movie Review: In ‘About Last Night,’ Couples Map Differing Paths to Love 2014-02-13T23:23:40Z

The abstract paintings were always about something in the real world. Thomas Nozkowski’s Final Statement 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

But in its wake, Mars Volta veered instead toward the abstract concepts and extended, multifarious compositions of psychedelia and progressive rock, sometimes mixed with the salsa that Rodríguez-López grew up hearing. The Mars Volta Returns With a Swerve: Its Own Version of Pop 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

The themes are also becoming more bafflingly abstract. 'I've never seen tent rage like it!' How Bake Off lost its way 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Kandel is a confident writer, and his enthusiasm for brain science and abstract art shines through. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

I love making the big heads because it’s a chance to be very abstract. Jenny Saville’s Nudes Bring Renaissance Masters Down to Earth 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Robert De Niro recently managed to regain six works by his father, who was an abstract expressionist artist. Lawrence Salander, New York art dealer who fleeced stars, jailed 2010-08-04T18:04:00Z

Ms. Rossin has achieved something, forging a connection between abstract painting and augmented perception that opens up a fourth dimension that existed only in theory for earlier painters. Museum & Gallery Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

I use ontology and epistemology, and their derivative forms, whenever the subject involves an abstract idea and I want to convey a sense that I have given deeper thought to it than I really have. Gene Weingarten: Admit it. You don’t know what ‘epistemological’ means either. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The most worrisome risk is more abstract, but nonetheless powerful. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The emphasis on the group serves to abstract but also expand aspects of the narrative and speech in Plato’s words, and the contrasts of patterns and styles keep developing an extraordinarily rich tension. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z

A key part of any music copyright trial is the testimony of musicologists hired as expert witnesses for each side, who present dry, abstract analyses of the music. 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

And, as Kandel himself admits at the end of the book, abstract art almost never does this; his favorite artists have no interest in how the parts combine to make the whole. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

One thought, though: The series’s accounts of violence against African-Americans tend to have an abstract feeling, and some direct insight into the racist mind-set could help to communicate its full force. Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Sarah Clough provides a black-light flashlight to display the fluorescent pigment that appears to lie beneath the surface of her abstract painting. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The stripped-down, abstract staging of the WNO production does not include sets specific enough to designate a location. A new opera about a dictator may or may not be about Trump. It depends whom you ask. 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Dangers and threats that are difficult to visualize — such as abstract fears, or real invisible hazards like a poison gas attack — often cause similar metaphors to appear across the sleeps of concerned dreamers, she said. Why Am I Having Weird Dreams Lately? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

It ended with blast after slow blast of the closing chord, dozens of times, turning into slabs of abstract noise. Music Review: Global Citizen Festival, With Neil Young, to Combat Poverty 2012-09-30T16:23:44Z

The selection doesn’t quite add up to a retrospective, but it does include two early abstracts and six 1980s representational pictures. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

When you’re full of energy and potential, the system’s nefariousness remains abstract. Viv Albertine, Midlife Radical 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Finished yesterday,” he said, looking at the yellow, black and white abstract painting by the artist Jacqueline Humphries from the sidewalk outside the store, on the Bowery at Broome Street on the Lower east Side. A Metal-Gate Makeover 2011-05-02T22:50:43Z

Time is an abstract and collectively imaginary concept, and often our brains must latch onto contemporary metaphors to fathom its churn. Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

“There is no person more important to the trajectory of my career as an abstract painter in the United States than April Kingsley,” Mr. Little said by email. April Kingsley, Curator Who Championed Unsung Artists, Dies at 82 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

These characterizations are a reminder that abstract paintings, far from being esoteric, are often most fruitfully contemplated in straightforward human terms. Review | How one abstract artist refuses to be boxed in 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The story rendered the abstract threat of climate change in concrete, even cinematic, terms, informing the reader without surrendering an ounce of high-level drama. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gordon presented a more abstract, Minimalist view, nudging simple, repetitive melodic fragments ahead at length — perhaps too great a length — before adding in the prayer’s opening words: “All vows.” Review: Maya Beiser Offers a Concert of Both Rock and Reverence 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Several Nashville natives are part of the mix, including Kit Reuther, who is known for her abstract paintings and sculptures in muted tones. Five Places to Go in Nashville 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

“This is a game with abstract terms,” he said, “What is important is to return to people’s fate and allow the viewers to be part of someone’s life.” A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Mural marks the moment he began to move towards the abstract expressionism seen in his famous "drip" paintings, in which he poured paint directly onto the canvas. Pollock's Mural painting restored 2012-06-27T15:56:19Z

The association of Modern art with villainy isn’t new in movies: Hitchcock had fun with it in a memorable quick bit in “Suspicion,” in which a detective distrustfully eyeballs an abstract painting. Movie Review: ‘Alex Cross,’ With Tyler Perry as James Patterson’s Detective 2012-10-18T22:17:48Z

For instance, she spoke at length about abstract sculpture, architecture and animal rights. My 2-Hour Talk With A 7th Grader: Snapchat Soars While Twitter Has Turbulence Ahead 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Those results are more experimental, composed into abstract diamonds or squares, and with body parts photographed in rapid-fire succession, or a light bulb dangling alone in space. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

She draws lines in the air with her fingers, which manifest into swirling lines on screen; eventually her image floats, like an eerie ghost, in front of a series of vibrating abstract lines and shapes. Dance Review: Cori Olinghouse at Danspace Project 2013-12-13T22:32:48Z

There’s a rugged loveliness to the L.A. painter’s seven abstract compositions, each of which is made up of simple shapes, unfussy smudges and wayward doodles. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Trisha’s work, because it’s so abstract, is interested in other things. A Choreographer Dances Out His Feelings About Race and Religion 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Her coaxing of a pleading Stormy Weather out of abstract beginnings was breathtaking. Take Five 2012: John Fordham's year in jazz 2012-12-18T14:09:36Z

When the ’60s began, young artists like Rauschenberg were in rebellion against abstract expressionism, with its insistence on art as a vehicle for personal feeling and existential angst. The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

The upside of my choice is that I enjoyed Fincher’s film on its own terms, in all its abstract, intellectual, postmodern glory. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Neel belonged to no groups, was sui generis and scarcely scraped a living when American art was dominated by abstract expressionism and pop. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

This electricity unifies nearly all his paintings, edge to edge, with a bracing combination of the familiar and the abstract that still has few equals in modern art. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z

Like Eadweard Muybridge’s early photographic motion studies, Conner’s film uses 27 black-and-white shots in extreme slow motion to create an almost abstract visual choreography. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Is there anything more familiar and abstract than the madness of a human heartbreak? The best music of 2015: Young Thug, Ellie Goulding and Kelela shine 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

“The abstract expressionists were not painting in a void, in the decade after Auschwitz and Hiroshima.” What’s in a wall text? At galleries, it may be masking an artist’s heritage. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Two very different, but extremely complementary, approaches to the challenge of making abstract art are on view at the G. Gibson Gallery this month, and both are engaging and satisfying in their own way. Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Sam Gilliam, the abstract artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s with his large-scale draped canvas paintings, will join Pace Gallery’s roster of artists, the gallery announced Monday. At Last, Sam Gilliam’s Star Ascends in New York 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

One, “Mixed Feelings,” is an 18-foot-tall abstract torque shape that makes it appear in motion. A Renaissance Master Finally Gets a Showcase 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Americans don't like abstract theorizing or deep introspection; we are a nation of doers, not thinkers like those effete Europeans. 'America the Philosophical': Deep thinking in the land of the free 2012-06-06T21:19:10Z

I’m drawn to its abstract nature, and the burst of brush strokes are very powerful. In Chelsea, a Little Piece of Prerevolutionary Iran 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

That abstract mood is also reflected in the severe yet spontaneous logic of his solos—yet his multidimensional sense of form is as natural and intimate as breathing. How Eric Dolphy Deepened My Love of Jazz 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

"Anything that needs a lot of detail to explain or understand is trouble. It's also hard to make an emoji for something abstract - like good governance, or a responsible president," Davis said. Smiley faces to rolling eyes: Where do all those emojis come from? 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Things seem scarier in the abstract than end up being in the reality. Q&A: Raising a Blind Kitty 2010-12-23T08:00:00Z

Canterbury said she was particularly struck by a series of abstract representations of lighthouses done in the 1930s, a time period in which Ida O'Keeffe drew positive attention from art critics. Works of Georgia O’Keeffe’s sister to be exhibited 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The Swiss architect proposed to neatly stratify all urban functions into cleanly separated bands, forming a linear city based on an abstracted human form – with a head, spine, arms and legs. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z

“I don’t think there is any great painting that doesn’t have good abstract qualities” she announced late in life. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

In a series involving images projected from slides, the work is all but abstracts. Susan Bee: ‘Photograms and Altered Photos From the 1970s’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

As often in Mr. Ghebreyesus’s paintings, there are abstract sections of checks and stripes, and enigmatic details. The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

As he mulled on time in the abstract sense, the day was getting on. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The successive building up and wiping away of pigment results in “abstract pictures,” as most are dryly titled, whose hidden depths and lost pasts remain stubbornly inaccessible. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

In “Weather,” the collapse exists on a scale at once broader and more abstract: the end of the world itself. Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ Is Emotional, Planetary and Very Turbulent 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

There had been a few decently received shows of Bourgeois's own work in the 1940s and early 1950s, but then the abstract expressionists swept the decks clean. Louise Bourgeois obituary 2010-05-31T21:50:00Z

These meticulously made pieces draw from the well-known language of industrial design, yet are oversized and abstracted, and thus eerie. Review | In the galleries: If creative ceramics are your cup of tea, go to the Renwick Gallery 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

A marionette Socrates, aided by his wife and students, uses abstract parables, paradoxes and, of course, the Socratic method and Socratic irony to examine epistemological and moral topics like justice, democracy and liberty. Theater Review: ‘The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates,’ at La MaMa 2013-12-09T22:33:28Z

Ms. Sherald also starts with realism, but softens and abstracts it. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Often religion is thought of as referring to some inner disposition or abstract belief, such as privately held convictions about salvation separate from politics. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

They are a tribute to a gifted abstract artist who was overshadowed by figurative giants like Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Damien Hirst: From Artist to Curator 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

A view of them in black socks is most amusingly countered by Ms. Clayton with an image of an untitled abstract painting by Myron Stout. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

For her version of a “romantic Peruvian print,” she designed a multicolored stripe pattern with tiny abstract hearts woven into espadrilles and sandals. | Tabitha Simmons Finds Romance in the Andes 2013-08-20T13:00:35Z

The abstract yet seemingly organic forms dovetail, interlock and sometimes appear to tie themselves into knots. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

“How do you describe a black and white Franz Kline? Or any abstract picture, how do you describe it and to what depth of description does one need to put?” Galleries From A to Z Sued Over Websites the Blind Can’t Use 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Its literalness is uncharacteristic of her more abstract work. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

He had a restless romance with abstract painting that sparked a perpetually evolving body of work, leading him to dubbed himself “The Mutator.” Ed Moses, 'Cool School' painter who helped forge L.A.'s art scene, dies at 91 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The constant is an almost endlessly fruitful tension between the abstract appeal of a colored plane and the inevitably concrete materiality of its execution. What to See in Los Angeles Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Tying Raymie to a grate in the floor is wrong in the abstract, but is it also wrong when that child might burn down a house and kill others? Should More Defendants Be Claiming Insanity? 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Light is both a particle and a wave in 24 small, abstract paintings by Brooklyn artist Emily Davis Adams. A vast landscape unfolds in bands of color: Emily Davis Adams at CB1 Gallery 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

How does one render visual what is so abstract? 'Inside Out,' 'The Matrix' and more: Ranking cinema's notable head trips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Feldman’s piece — scored for percussion, celesta, viola, choir and soprano — was an abstract analogue to Rothko’s canvases. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Sienese style they collectively shaped was defined by the interplay of two seemingly antithetical preferences, one being descriptive realism and the other abstract decorative patterning. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z

His abstract vistas and valleys are transformed by various photographic techniques. Landscape photographer lets imagination color his world 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

His description of the “day-to-day abstract humiliation” of not having a driver’s license until he was 26 is a painfully honest account of the toll that ennui takes on black social mobility. His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

It’s abstract and lasts barely 11 minutes, but clearly suggests rising and falling action. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

The exhibition will span nearly seven decades, concluding with some of his spare abstract paintings from the late 1980s, around the time he received a diagnosis of dementia. Inside Art: The Cat Is Stuffed, but the Bird Is Real 2011-01-06T22:44:44Z

Included are actual poppies sprouting in patterned soil, watery abstract ink paintings and pop-art-style oils of swamps. In the galleries: Four curators share one spotlight 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

But Tal R’s undiluted color is very much his own; even now, its brashness is more usual in abstract painting. Tal R: ‘Altstadt Girl’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Leigh Maddox’s “Changing Landscapes” overlaps two slices of glass painted with abstracted scenery; the view shifts not with the weather but with the viewer’s position. In the galleries: ‘Micro-Monuments’ that take on a global perspective 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Using computer modeling he elongates and abstracts the features, altering details so that the image “loses the journalistic sense of portrait to become an icon.” Monuments: The Poetry of Dreams 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

The dance troupe with a Busby Berkeley knack for turning human beings into springy, abstract shapes returns to Seattle to open the World Dance Series' 2011-12 season. What our writers love this week 2011-09-28T23:43:08Z

Today her candidly mercantile approach is reflected in Sotheby’s’ sale catalog, a lavish volume that aspires to scholarship, with offerings grouped under headings including minimalism, abstract expressionism, modernism and surrealism. Art’s New Perch: Your Neck, Not Your Wall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Suzanne in the conservatory is as suave as a Degas but for the jungle of abstract marks growing around her; two paintings – two kinds of painting – in one. Manet: Portraying Life – review 2013-01-26T19:44:58Z

Still, the delicate lines and pastel splashes of color are frequently at odds with a sexual violence at once explicit and powerfully abstract. Two ’70s Movies on Video Enter the Valley of the Cult Heroines 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

He first emerged as an artist in the late 1970s, one of a group producing and exhibiting abstract work, which Cultural Revolution authorities deemed bourgeois and decadent. Critic’s Notebook: Pei-Shen Qian’s Paintings Examined 2013-12-30T22:57:08Z

It’s certainly true that you get $25 worth from your visit on some abstract scale. Met Changes 50-Year Admissions Policy: Non-New Yorkers Must Pay 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The hats worn by the ladies, which resembled, variously, overturned buckets, flowerpots, lampshades, fezzes, salad plates, tea cozies, flying saucers, abstract artworks or, in one case, a pile of feathers. A Traditional Royal Wedding, but for the 3 Billion Witnesses 2011-05-01T04:18:15Z

Mr. Smith’s work is colorful and incorporates elements like abstract swirls and scribbles along with recognizable natural objects like fish and leaves. Inside Art: Josh Smith in Venice And Connecticut 2011-04-14T21:03:10Z

The cover, designed by Feininger, is an abstract graphic design emblematic of his early Bauhaus work. Inside Art: Learning the Identity of a Phantom Picasso Subject 2012-03-01T23:28:37Z

The art world was still in the thrall of Jackson Pollock and the abstract expressionists, and Close became a devotee of Willem de Kooning, in part because his paintings used discernible images. 'Chuck Close: Life': The Northwest native painter who brought the portrait back to modern art 2010-05-26T23:49:00Z

Unlike the New Adventures pieces, it is abstract and balletic, a sextet for two women and four women, danced — and filmed, by Alexander Izliaev — with verve and wit. A William Forsythe Sampler, JoyceStream and Bourne’s Legacy 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Concurrently, beginning on Feb. 9, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto will present the opera in a stylish abstract staging by James Robinson, originally mounted by the Opera Theater of St. Louis in 2004. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

Elsewhere, the band works in a quieter, more abstract tone-painting style. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Lofty dreams and big ambitions, an eye to abstract values and the gift of gab, are no longer enough to bear the moral conscience of the nation. We Can Handle the Truth 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

“A lot of my stuff was making fun of abstract pop culture in a way that was removed emotionally.” Patton Oswalt: ‘I’ll Never Be at 100 Percent Again’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

You usually don’t associate Mr. Sher, whose triumphant production of “The King and I” continues its run at Lincoln Center, with daring directorial concepts and abstract scenic designs. Review: Metropolitan Opera’s New ‘Otello,’ Bold and Tentative 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Turning an abstract abomination into a concrete horror by interviewing asylum seekers, King and her producers at once personalized the crisis and placed it in a global context. At the Border, TV Networks Find Eloquence in Starkness, Speechlessness, and Disbelief 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

With no political record behind him, questions arose not only about Warnock’s legislative priorities but also about his views on abstract issues like the proper relationship between religion and politics. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

They formed beautiful abstract floral patterns that were stunning, the kind of work that takes years to perfect. On the Runway Blog: Narciso Rodriguez's Simple Yet Effortless Mastery 2012-09-12T01:52:12Z

Buyers looking for rhythmic harmony in abstract art at affordable prices may succumb. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

Somehow the Jekyll and Hyde metaphors come across as both too literal and too abstract to really work. Gothic feel but murky focus for Mammals' 'Dream Journal' 2011-03-08T17:11:00Z

Sarah Crowner, known over the last decade for stitching together cutout shapes of plain or painted canvas to form rectilinear abstract paintings, is sticking to first principles. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Inspiration, a place of solitude and humility — the titles of Miller’s deeply contemplative canvases identify the profound abstract qualities his work shares with Fouquet’s figurative imagery. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

In his painting the basic repertory of images is abstracted into nearly hieroglyphic signs. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z

The language becomes abstract: “Beringian metals filled plans and made profits.... Proof of prophecy lay in revenue and plans fulfilled.” A View of the Bering Strait That’s Anything but Narrow 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Q: What are the hardest and most abstract words on her board? The story behind Stella, the first ‘talking’ dog. It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Grainy and clear, mundane and epic, abstract and straightforward, the snapshots run the gamut of textures, moods and experiences. Photographer Chase Jarvis aims to make artists of us all 2010-07-19T18:58:00Z

In it were not only Interview covers and ephemera, but also early and late work barely seen or recognized: Pop paintings, late abstracts. The Man Who Made ‘Everyone Look So Famous’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

They bought one of the German painter’s abstract pieces at a time when it was considered a garish deviation from his popular realist works. Peek Inside Zöe and Joel Dictrow’s Art-Filled Home 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

His use of purely abstract forms broke with centuries of artistic tradition. Celebrating Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer in abstract art 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

They form a narrow stack at the center of the trunk’s round side, like an abstract homage to the tree it was once part of. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Each look is broken into a minimal stack of color bars, then combined to abstract the collection’s hues. Front Row to Fashion 2014-02-14T12:59:49Z

By placing this debate within the emotionally charged setting of a family, Sultan in his book added dramatic weight to an abstract discussion. A Photographer Turned the Tables on His Parents to Learn About Himself 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Projected above is a slide show that includes 150 images, some up close, abstract and sculptural; others distant and architectural. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

His defense of police officers made sense, because these were no longer abstract issues; this was personal. Firefighter Chases Woman Down Street 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

His topics, illustrated by realistic images and abstract structures, include U.F.O.’s, time travel, alchemy, the mind-body problem, utopia, relativity and quantum theories, and science-fiction movies like “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Art in Review: Paul Laffoley: ‘The Boston Visionary Cell’ 2013-01-17T22:45:06Z

The animation is uproariously inventive, drunkenness itself becoming an abstract, filmic state. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z

“It represented the cross-pollination that Taeuber-Arp was so deft at, combining turned-wood construction and painted abstract patterns over the visage,” she said. A Swiss Dada Pioneer Finally Gets Her Spotlight 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Wordless, they employ moving, abstract images of mercurial fluidity painstakingly choreographed to music. Jordan Belson, Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 85 2011-09-11T09:36:30Z

She went instead to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she began her experiments with wire sculpture, eventually becoming known for crocheted abstract forms in wire that often held other forms inside them. Form, function and the feminine 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a city being adapted for human beings, not for some abstract vision of a global consumer. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z

In the abstract, that is excruciating to me, and I think it was after the fact. John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

They were simply incapable of picturing an abstract situation and of entering into a game. Do (strict) Chinese mums know best? 2011-01-16T00:06:32Z

Large ceramic vessels decorated in abstract patterns sit on the floor in front of painted canvas “windows,” rest on eccentrically designed wooden tables or emerge from the center of painted “rugs.” Betty Woodman at David Kordansky Gallery 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“We stayed up until six in the morning, cleaning up the recording and deciphering the words. . . . You abstract the sound into shapes, start selecting, magnifying.” ‘White Tears,’ by Hari Kunzru, hears the distorted sounds of the past 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

He made more than 15 studies for the mural, moving abstracted versions of Jacob’s ladder, the tablets of Moses and other symbols into various positions. | 'Modern Art, Sacred Space': Daring Expressions in ?Modern Art, Sacred Space? 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z

“Some of my abstract paintings are so minimal people don’t spend enough time with them,” he told Dr. Ramos. Freddy Rodríguez, Artist Who Explored His Dominican Roots, Dies at 76 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

She went on to paint many more abstract series, totaling nearly 1,300 works, as well as a few portrait commissions and other naturalistic works, many of whose whereabouts today are unknown. In Search of Hilma af Klint, Who Upended Art History, But Left Few Traces 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Petric thinks of the algorithm like a paintbrush and, indeed, the overall pieces are very satisfying, seeming at first like an abstract landscape or a fluid blend of large pictures. Can art help fight climate change? These 4 Seattle-area artists think so. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Studies show ravens are intelligent and capable of abstract thought. A raven was shot, left for dead. Here’s how a bird-loving lawyer saved it. 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

Although abstract, the pictures incorporate text, architectural features and bits of found images, which are printed on the canvas. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

She incorporated images of her body and pictures of places she’d visited into her abstract process, creating a hybrid style that mapped the associative nature of memory. At 77, Howardena Pindell Exorcises a Chilling Memory From Childhood 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

The show also includes several abstract drawings done almost entirely in stippling. Art in Review: Zilia Sánchez 2013-06-13T20:50:12Z

One of her motifs was the theme of the current show: figures falling or flying through abstract space, which is often painted with expressionistic jags and bright swaths of color. 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Toronto International Film Festival co-director is standing in his Carlton Street office, studying a giant film schedule as if it were an abstract gallery painting. Toronto film fest boss stays cool under pressure 2010-09-03T03:05:00Z

But her stillness is mystifying rather than enigmatic, and it is hard to feel anything but the most abstract pity for Mary. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z

The drawings, sketchbooks and music and dance scores in the show tend toward stripped down, more or less abstract and usually black and white. Beyond Abstract Expressionism: MoMA Rethinks the Art of the 1950s 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Like many moments in “Secret Things,” the image suggests drama and emotion, but its non sequitur juxtapositions are also abstract. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

These he would cut into playful shapes, some representational and some abstract, which he would arrange and rearrange on a surface until he arrived at something vital, vivid and new. Henri Matisse Cuts Loose 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the years between the two World Wars, German painters reacted to the prevailing trends in abstract expressionism, turning once again to realism in their work. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

They adopt such abstract nouns as access, outreach, inclusivity and challenging. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z

Or Jason Hackenwerth, who takes the medium in a totally different direction by using balloons for abstract art. From thin air, 40,000 balloons add up to one giant public art installation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Her colorful tapestries, often in the form of wall hangings or rugs, show her flair for whimsical abstract design and, like other examples of the couple’s work, are highly sought-after today. | Marriage by Design 2011-01-20T15:30:43Z

These may sound like silly, abstract questions, but they could hardly be more serious or more relevant. | 'Another Year': Injustice, British and Otherwise 2010-12-28T18:18:34Z

There is no thought or impulse of mine, be it revolutionary, feminist, radical, dirty, beautiful, silly, abstract or murderous, that feels ugly. Eileen Myles, the Poet Muse of ‘Transparent’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Seemingly contorting its muscular limbs, Arp’s abstract “Homage” is expressive, tightly wound—Rodinesque—evoking, in form and spirit, Rodin’s crouching figures, entwined lovers and clasping hands. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

"This Is Not My Life" features more disembodied hands — one in color, one in black-and-white — busying themselves by surrounding the central figure with some Jackson Pollock-worthy abstract squiggles. Davidson Galleries: Artists play mind games using sharp skills 2012-07-18T18:52:03Z

Up now is “Cutting Edges,” a group show of abstract painting drawn from a private Norwegian collection. 3 Choice Museums and a Treat for Kids, No Subway Trips in Between 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Here, both local and international artists of all stripes, from avant-garde sculptors to abstract painters, display their oeuvre in a sun-washed space. 36 Hours in Macau 2012-11-04T04:00:23Z

The sections of the jams that Ono excerpted to fit on an LP in 1970 were usually the most tense, jarring, abstract stretches — which is to say she chose well. Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Sixteen of Mr. Fábrega’s abstract paintings with bright yellows, blues and reds hung on the concrete walls in an exhibition he called “Banana Republic.” Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z

McDonald's response to what is effectively a work of fiction is to steer it away from its period towards something more abstract. Mary Stuart 2010-06-06T20:30:00Z

The abstract impulse that Taeuber-Arp brought to her art and life wasn’t only about color and line. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The set was unusually abstract for Chanel, with onlookers perched around white, tiered mounds that resembled icy islands. Chanel swaps skirts for jodhpurs at Paris Fashion Week 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

They’re paintings: brightly colored and abstract, with geometric patterns or expressionistic swaths. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

And yes, it may seem strange to apply extremely technical standards to this abstract spiritual practice, but doing so isn’t without precedent. Astrology Is Hard, Even if It’s Fake 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

When they multiply you have to stand back to distinguish the figurative shapes among the mass of abstract signs. Keith Haring, the Political Line – review 2013-05-14T13:01:35Z

Bloom’s and Hostetler’s celebrations of nature are also explorations of abstract form. In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

A lot of it is abstract, and it took a lot of trial and error to actually land on a formula that works. ArtsBeat: Which Jazz Greats Were Left Off the Blue Note 100? 2014-03-24T21:04:37Z

However, Mr. Cumming's vivacious colors and slightly abstracted forms render the scenes less specific, less local. William Cumming, 93, colorful member of Northwest School of artists 2010-11-30T03:16:00Z

They also miss out a third part of the equation – abstract painting, a profound tradition that evolved in the modern age. Painted into a corner: are the stuckists right about modern British art? 2011-03-31T14:17:40Z

Hofmann's abstract paintings celebrate the vibrant tensions possible between color and form. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

A beautiful small abstract sculpture of rough, rocklike forms standing on end by Ron Nagle is like a piece of Ms. Pitt’s film embodied in vividly glazed clay. Art In Review: ‘VIVA LA RASPBERRIES’ 2012-08-02T20:31:29Z

The dominant art of the period was abstract expressionism: a very assertive, extrovert, macho art like that of Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, very gestural. Knockout. Hero. Genius: Cy Twombly 2011-07-06T20:30:03Z

And identity is deeper and much more profound than this very 18th, 19th, and 20th century idea of simplistic, black-and-white division, abstracted, binary ideas. "Lyric writing is not easy": Michael Stipe looks back on creating REM's "New Adventures of Hi-Fi" 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

In a musical zone that diligently parses itself into subgenres, the festival’s 67 acts added up to both a dance marathon and a broad-spectrum survey, from crowd-pleasing trance and relentless techno to abstract minimal house. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z

If you abstracted Bowie the actor from our screens, he would still haunt the senses of cinema-goers, because his music has crept into movies, sometimes when you expect it least. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

It was just a very abstract idea – this thing is so powerful, it contains your whole world, and it links you to somebody in a way that 10 years ago would have been impossible. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z

Last month, at Sotheby’s “The Now” sale of works by “the most exciting artists today,” one of Bull’s richly layered abstracts sold for $907,200, an auction record for the artist. Sales at Art Basel Fair Don’t Show Signs of Downturn 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

He turned away from the abstract and figurative painting he had long struggled with and began to create dense grids populated with numbers and colors. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The prominent abstract painter is having her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at this new Boyle Heights space. Datebook: Portraits of pugilists, a key L.A. collagist gets his due, and a piano show about destruction 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Takacs brought a balletic fierceness last year to his staging of Philip Ridley’s “Tender Napalm,” an equally abstract, poetic standoff between a man and a woman. Theater Review: ‘I Am the Wind,’ by Jon Fosse, Features Men Alone at Sea 2014-01-17T02:00:01Z

The success of this red and pink abstract also said something about the current taste of the region. The Biggest-Selling Artist at Auction Is a Name You May Not Know 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

It was, true to its museum commission, painterly, with staging that was not a depiction of the songs but abstract surroundings for them. Music Review: Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall 2012-01-28T01:02:07Z

But the dance itself, fashioned in the classical ballet style of Antony Tudor, is a bit too abstract to connect with emotionally. A night of 4 world premieres, including 1 by Mark Morris, at PNB 2012-11-04T15:35:35Z

The second set begins with “Life Before Insanity,” and gathers force with the one abstract jam after another — “Thorns of Life,” “Trane,” “Revolution Come, Revolution Go.” The spontaneous magic of Gov't Mule in concert: "We feel more comfortable on stage than anywhere" 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Psychology boils away the particulars of individual experience to arrive at abstract generalities. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – review 2012-05-24T08:00:02Z

“When I try to articulate it, it sounds really abstract, but I think it’s actually very practical,” Odell says. Jenny Odell on why we need to learn to do nothing: ‘It's a reminder that you're alive’ 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Curry has created a series of colorful abstract images in painted aluminum. Inside Art: Met Is Ready to Unveil New European Paintings Galleries 2013-05-09T20:39:52Z

In the early 1960s, many Modernist abstract painters reacted to Pop Art with fear and loathing. Review: Vern Blosum, ‘Late Work’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

But it's the sharply focused, more abstract and austere geometric works that claim prolonged attention. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Insane” is rife with sharp, brutal details that pull the reader beyond the realms of abstract policy debates. The ‘Insane’ Way Our Prison System Handles the Mentally Ill 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

The other collections were an abstract line, Lift, and another realistic one called Street Boys. Up Close: Kevin Arpino Creates Fashion Mannequins – Up Close 2012-12-12T22:52:53Z

The work is basically representative of three series, the digital paintings, buildings and abstract works. Hossein Khosrojerdi's first U.S. solo show opens at Tara Gallery 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

From the abstract patterns in the Spanish ceiling of the museum’s Islamic art galleries, she gleaned that a fragment can be multiplied almost to infinity. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

But that marketplace treats T-shirts and sneakers and Supreme ceramic dishes as abstract commodities: soybeans, lean hogs, whatever. At Round Two, There’s Always a Buyer 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Washington Color School, whose earliest exponents began staining canvases with diluted acrylic pigments in the late 1950s, is often presented as either a subset of New York’s abstract expressionism or a response to it. In the galleries: The Washington Color School on show

Baghramian, who was born in Iran, will present abstract, polychrome sculptures, in the niches, that “seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam,” the museum said. Met Museum Commissions Bring Contemporary Art Front and Center 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Almost everything is in black and white, and most of the works are driven by abstract, hermetic conceptual purposes. ‘For a New World to Come,’ Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Sitting in his expansive studio in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles last year, the abstract painter Mark Grotjahn refused to answer questions about the way he does business. He’s the Very Model of a Modern Major Artist 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

I think it likely that there are no finer galleries of abstract art than the cabinet drawers of the tropical butterfly collector. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Doig senior worked as a shipping clerk, but was a keen painter of mainly abstract landscapes in his spare time. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z

Undoubtedly an argument could be made for facing mankind’s capacity for violence, even in an abstract, philosophical sense. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“In cities like Paris, people are not that affected, and you see it as an abstract thing.” In Paris, Art Confronts 2 Crises 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lonergan poses these questions not in the abstract, but as practical matters. Review: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and the Tides of Grief 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Designed by Erik Teague, who also designed the costumes, the heads have a soft, slightly abstract shape, and they glow from within, their blank eyes and faces nearly white. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Its first half is abstract, theoretical: an exploration of the meaning and means of theater itself. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Throughout the sunlit store, Mr. Thomas’s abstract paintings and writings fill the spaces between clothing racks and bright brass shelves heavy with the brand's thick hoodies and sweatpants. Is It Street Wear or Is It Art? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The northwest Tower Gallery will showcase works by Alexander Calder, while the northeast gallery will feature abstract expressionist works, including a changing selection of Mark Rothko paintings. Soon to rule the roost at National Gallery of Art: A 15-foot blue chicken 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

But as it goes on, the production becomes increasingly abstract. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

The most abstract thing to say about “American Crime,” ABC’s anthology miniseries returning for a second installment tonight, is that the direction is like nothing else on broadcast television. This show flips all the scripts: A male prep school athlete, drugged and raped — and what happens next 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The music’s abstract mystery curdled into something labored and portentous. Music Review: Dead Can Dance at Beacon Theater 2012-08-30T21:48:08Z

There will come a time, next year or maybe later, when 2020 will have receded enough that we’ll no longer experience it as the Never-ending Now, when time became maddeningly abstract. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

You, the watcher, are part of a faceless mob, abstract and infinitely distractible. At ?Malfi? and ?Bum Bum? in London, Active Audience 2010-08-12T22:26:00Z

And then obviously, there's the ending with the suitcase that has sort of a nice finality to it, in terms of bringing in what seems like the abstract. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

He moved to New York in 1969 and first displayed his work in 1974 in a group show at the Bykert Gallery, a well known Manhattan redoubt of abstract painting at the time. Alan Uglow, Abstract Painter, Dies at 69 2011-02-02T05:47:58Z

Still is credited with pioneering the abstract expressionism movement. Probation for woman who attacked Still painting 2012-06-01T01:13:07Z

Mr. Robinson’s mother was an artist specializing in abstract painting. The Setup That Lasted Six Years 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

That was true of Norman Lewis, whose 1962 painting “Evening Rendezvous” is both abstract and deeply political. ‘Fighting for Change’: Life as a Black Artist 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

He also likes to incorporate more abstract works by artists like Henri Matisse and Georges Braque into his sessions. Museums Embrace Art Therapy Techniques for Unsettled Times 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Some people in Radio 4 would like to make looser, more abstract radio. Next week's radio: from The Truth And Nothing But The Truth to Private Passions 2013-05-18T05:00:08Z

In these huge works, up to two metres high, he strips the human body down to something more abstract, elemental and direct. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Disclosure is not a film about trans representation in the abstract. 'Tough but profoundly cathartic': can Disclosure change trans representation on screen? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Roberts said the Columbus statue was particularly important to Whitney because “it marked her first experimentation with a new, abstracted style and allowed her to further build her international reputation.” Retracing the Spanish Path of My Ancestor, the Founder of the Whitney 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

This sounds, in the abstract, pretentious and forced, but the result is flickeringly poetic. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree

He is abstracted: floating, worried, not part of things. Review: ‘The Colour in Anything’ Mourns Lost Connections 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

It would be another few years until Guston had his first exhibition of completely abstract works in New York — no human figures, no objects in sight, marked by clusters of color at their centers. Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

The album looks at popular American tunes in an abstract light, with Frisell’s gentle, probing genius at the forefront. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

When we first did the piece, I hadn’t done much abstract dance, and I don’t think the swan choreography was as strong as it is now. All the Swans At This Lake Are Male 2010-10-08T15:44:00Z

Like the previous film, “Watermark” begins with a lengthy, almost abstract sequence that records repetitive movements, which seem to ache to tell a story. ‘Watermark’ documentary shows the beauty of decay 2014-05-01T18:08:33Z

This is a movie almost entirely populated by abstract concepts moving through theoretical space. Review: Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Finds the Joy in Sadness, and Vice Versa 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In kaleidoscopic colors and patterns — tribal motifs, overblown peonies, cheetah spots, abstract skulls and awning stripes — they’re eye candy for a new generation. It?s a Turban, It?s a Dress (It?s a Scarf) 2011-05-25T21:01:02Z

When assembled, the pieces, which the artist referred to as lobes, will form one mammoth abstract beehive purposely affixed to the ceiling, as if hung from a tree branch. An 8,000-Pound Tribute to the Power of the Beehive 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

There also were bold colors, like regal purple and splotchy patterns, perhaps abstract flowers, on a coat that the designer said was cut in “enveloping volumes.” Fashion Review: From Alessandra Facchinetti, a Step Forward for Tod’s 2014-02-21T20:06:13Z

Their abstract shape is partly dictated by the tree’s natural growth pattern and partly by the artist’s piecing together of multiple blocks of wood. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kusaka approaches her medium with a Process artist’s deliberation, combining and recombining abstract motifs, marking techniques, pale glazes, clay bodies and vessel shapes with a consistent sparseness. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

No spiral abstracts on a floor with patients recovering from strokes, who might get dizzy, Lange explains. Abstract Frank Stella sculpture 'Adjoeman' joins Cedars-Sinai artworks 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

But no matter whether Mason was working in figurative, abstract or primitivist mode, the exuberance of his work is consistent and irrepressible. A museum-worthy Alden Mason retrospective at Wright Space 2013-05-13T17:40:24Z

The effect of the literal trains and the physical doors is to revivify concepts that are so much a part of popular consciousness that they have become abstract, almost generic. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The bag proved itself to be less abstract than I thought — at the end it was the No. 1 best seller. Designers of Desire: Marco Zanini at Rochas 2012-09-27T18:15:19Z

In “Jackie,” Larraín announces his intention to depart from literal truth from the very beginning of the film when we hear the eerie, disorienting chords of Mica Levi’s boldly abstract score. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

And yet they seem so human: Preljocaj puts a heartbeat into his abstract interpretations, which only falter a little when a section of jiggles and grinds seems unnecessarily literal. Ballet Preljocaj: Helikopter/Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-23T16:52:38Z

The blue and white abstract patterned tiles are cold and relieve some of the all-permeating heat of the city. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z

Though abstract and on a grand scale, the garden had a human dimension as the models walked peacefully around it. Fashion Review: The Stage Is Big, and Lagerfeld Fills It 2010-10-05T22:56:00Z

She is an abstract painter whose works channel the austerity of Minimalism but incorporate acoustic panels — the kind used in concert halls or music studios — atop the canvas. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

She chose a rather abstract landscape, but Hunk liked a drawing of sunflowers; Moo liked a portrait of a woman. Stanford's Anderson Collection museum to feature trove of couple's art 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

One of the leading abstract artists of the postwar period, Kelly created works of cleanly juxtaposed colors and shapes, many of which reside in major museums. Ellsworth Kelly: 'Flexible perfectionist' remembered by Eli Broad and museums around the world 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

The “opposition” for me isn’t abstract — it’s who I break bread with at Christmas. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

One of the most intriguing pieces is Tariku Shiferaw’s large abstract painting, which plays with the surfaces above and below a sheet of clear acrylic. Review | In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

After relocating from a run in London, "Red," a play about abstract artist Mark Rothko, picked up seven nominations, including a nod for best lead actor in a play to British actor Alfred Molina. "Fela!." "La Cage aux Folles," lead Tony nominations 2010-05-04T17:06:00Z

A calculated departure, it allowed him to venture beyond the deliberately overexposed snapshot-like images and word pieces for which he is known and into more abstract, and modish, terrain. Taking the ‘Lady’ Out of the Lady Bag 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The paintings look completely abstract but they are built up in places with layers of text. The Art Show at the Armory: Blue-Chip Brands Show Their Best 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

At this point their very different skills in combining abstract and narrative force exceed hers. Art in Review: ANNIE ATTRIDGE: ?Hearts of Oak? 2011-02-03T22:05:46Z

What's fascinating is the way Sander echoes the color-scheme she uses for his body in the swimming abstract shapes around him. Seattle Erotic Art Festival marks its 10th anniversary 2012-06-21T20:30:06Z

The handful of action scenes, for all their mortal dangers, come and go with an expository brevity and an elusive, abstracted physicality to match. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Calling themselves Smokehouse Associates, they painted neighborhood walls with brilliantly colored abstract murals and enlisted local residents in the creative team. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

In the initial reports from 2009, Italian newspapers noted that the designers accused prosecutors of basing their claims on “a completely abstract calculation” of their taxable income based on a hypothetical market value. Dolce and Gabbana May Face a Criminal Trial for Tax Evasion. 2011-03-23T19:20:12Z

In 1959, Robert Smithson, a young abstract painter who would eventually become known as a pioneer of land art, went back to his boyhood home, in New Jersey, to visit his pediatrician. The Source of Robert Smithson's Spiral 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

This show brings together that work with a new series titled “…from dawn to dusk,” in which she plays with inverted colors and abstract forms. At Museums and Auctions, Private Treasures Are Unveiled 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Honed over decades, his starkly drawn tableaus of abstract lines and shapes, lit with minute precision, have adorned Shakespeare plays and Philip Glass operas alike. At 80, Robert Wilson Holds On to a Singular Vision for the Stage 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Jackson Pollock Was an inveterate alcoholock And it was on the inside of his windshield that this drunken berk Painted his last abstract expressionist work. Style Invitational: Gaaah! It’s Limerixicon XII 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Her work became more streamlined and abstract in the 1950s and ’60s. Doris Lee, Unjustly Forgotten, Gets a Belated but Full Blown Tribute 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The concert was all about the music — minimalist and abstract R&B, played by a trio that barely moved from their sitting positions. Concert review: James Blake at the Tractor Tavern 5/19 2011-05-20T18:34:07Z

It’s the first of many cages Giacometti would design, and its abstract prisoners are trapped in an endlessly unconsummated dance, not unlike the sequestered bride and bachelors in Marcel Duchamp’s “The Large Glass.” Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Striving to assemble language into art, I want to construct an imaginative world that is entirely my own, which is neither confessional nor abstract. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Majumdar excels at depicting the workings of power on the powerless; for her characters, power is no abstract concept but a visceral assault on the body and its senses. A Facebook Post Lands an Innocent Woman in Jail in This Riveting Debut Novel 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

According to an article in Social Psychological and Personality Science, five studies of undergraduates showed that more formal clothing helps with cognition and in particular with abstract processing, which helps with creativity and problem-solving. Quarantine reset: 5 steps to make you feel more in control 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

It's much easier to hate people in the abstract. TV OD with Simon Munnery: Wonderland – Young, Bright And On The Right 2012-08-03T23:05:14Z

There’s evidence of all these disciplines in the show made up of abstract paintings and drawings, most from two 1990s series titled “Magnetic Fields” and “Radiation Explorations.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Big canvases, bright colors and bold innovation are the hallmarks of mid-20th century abstract expressionism. ‘The Muralist’ review: The search for a relative behind famous canvases 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Now, in its sixth and final season, which begins Sunday night on PBS’s “Masterpiece,” the hardest truths of the 20th century are no longer abstract or optimistically shrugged aside. ‘Downton Abbey’s’ final season seems intent on sticking the landing 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

The paintings are done in a geometric abstract style that Ms. Jaffe adopted in the late 1960s, abandoning the gestural brushwork with which she began her career in the early 1950s. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Early on, Hopper also wrote poetry, painted abstract canvases and made sculptures. Dennis Hopper's Lost Album: life both sides of the lens 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

What they have in common with mathematicians is that the outside world sees them communicating in something other than standard English prose, and concludes they must be doing something really weird and abstract. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

She also continued painting, adopting a colorful abstract style associated with the postwar School of Paris rather than imitating Picasso. Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Frank Stella, the abstract artist who made the piece, circles it on foot, viewing it for the first time since it was installed. Abstract Frank Stella sculpture 'Adjoeman' joins Cedars-Sinai artworks 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The music is live and largely elegiac, the dancing virtuosic and mostly abstract though flecked with gestures of vulnerability, pain and anger. Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a guy in the middle of a world tattooing tour painstakingly concealed the Arabic script on my right arm with an abstract design that looked like stained glass. Two Tattoos Gone Wrong 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

It is also abstract art by another name. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

She began making loose maquettes — abstract nests of wire that she “tried not to manipulate too much, letting it still have its own wire-ness.” In the Studio With an Artist Devoted to the Line 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

On the left stands a model in a streamlined green dress; then in three sequential images she disappears until only the dress, an abstract shell — it could be cast from auto-body steel — remains. Review: A Nuyorican Artist’s Career Survey: Loud, Proud and Timely 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The earliest of his works in the show is the large-scale “Blue Nude with Sword” from 1979, the first figurative, as opposed to abstract, plate painting that Mr. Schnabel made. Julian Schnabel and the Great Painters, Side by Side 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

I hope it does reach a big audience, but that’s such an abstract thing. Director Rian Johnson on Looper’s True Meaning and Who's the Next Joseph Gordon-Levitt 2012-09-28T12:00:34Z

The suites, decorated in rich blues with abstract art that evokes the ocean, include soaking tubs; use of the Trump Spa lounge areas; and, in the evening, Trump wine. Checking In at Trump Hotels 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Backstage the designer talked about being inspired by the work of the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, known for his abstract photographic reinterpretation of everyday life. Special Report: Transparent Choices 2010-09-26T16:42:00Z

McLaughlin’s work does reflect a reduced abstract geometry familiar in the Western avant-garde — especially Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Katherine Bernhardt contributes abstract paintings loosely based on Moroccan rugs; James Brown is represented by large handsome watercolor collages on linen; and Tony Cox weighs in with bold, paintinglike embroideries of yarn and canvas. Art In Review: DURO OLOWU: MATERIAL 2012-03-01T22:50:55Z

Pictured through a window and from behind, they gaze at a huge abstract painting on the wall in front of them. Andreas Gursky Is Taking Photos of Things That Do Not Exist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Several of her abstract drawings and paintings are also included in the exhibition, showing the symbiosis of her visual art and her craft. At 97, preeminent jewelry designer Betty Cooke is still inspired to create 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

The memory triggers thoughts which seem rather abstract and personal. Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström 2013-03-04T10:39:48Z

In an age when visual satisfactions scroll by on Instagram in seconds, he revels in the physical — enshrining abstract forms as maximalist feats of mass and scale. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

He brought in some of his work to hang; eventually, clients began buying his large-canvas abstract paintings and triptychs. Of coiffures and canvases 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

He brought his innovative and interpretive abstract expressionism to L.A. in '78, igniting the nascent scene locally. At 85, choreographer Rudy Perez is still inspired by the rhythms of everyday life 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Its branches, made of red-orange cast resin, resemble segments of a coral reef but function more as abstract forms than as depictions of real-world phenomena. In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Video images of mundane scenes from Rabat, mostly of people working, are projected onto the pyramids, becoming abstracted and psychedelic. Meriem Bennani’s ‘Gradual Kingdom’ Focuses on Morocco 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

A brilliant abstract painter from the Caribbean and Canada, Thomasos made audacious mural-size canvases that evoked an architecture of floating cities, prisons and slave ships. My Artist Ghost 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

The corollary of the almost exclusive attention now accorded to abstract considerations is that the most beautiful pictures often fetch comparatively modest prices. Auctions: When Catalog Descriptions Dictate Value 2011-06-24T12:00:06Z

Typing in black and red, he produces intricate abstract patterns, images like that of a much-enlarged wristwatch and lists of rhyming words and popular songs titles. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

You’ll notice an anthropomorphic aspect to many pictures, which suggest comically abstracted faces and figures. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z

"Martin has a tendency to project personal paranoias into abstract universals, an ugly miscegenation of instincts with a need for profundity." Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

The idea is gargantuan, the visual scope of the devastation is enormous, the destruction is depicted in furious detail—yet the horror of that destruction remains theoretical, abstract, and implicit. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Seattle Times reader Steve Piccolo’s abstract image of the moon framed by brick exhaust stacks at the University of Washington’s Red Square. Reader’s Lens | Moon, with red brick 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

So instead they picked “The American Spectrum,” a row of abstract faces painted in a gradient of skin tones from dark to light. Faith Ringgold: ‘I Didn’t Want People to Be Able to Look, and Look Away’ 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

The curves of the other works depict the female body, abstracted but recognizable. Review | In the galleries: Roving photographers capture street scenes around the world 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

It was made after Delaney, a gay black man, moved to Paris, where he changed from making figurative work to mostly abstract compositions. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The group scenes, however, put flesh on abstract arguments and historical squabbles. | 'Urge for Going': Political Conflicts, Family-Style 2011-04-12T22:33:25Z

Filled with climbing houseplants, simple wooden furniture and, most profoundly, her art — abstract paintings and hulking sculptures made from Carrara marble — it’s a place that time forgot. | A Love Eternal 2014-04-09T13:00:01Z

The assumption was that if you made abstract art then you were copping out, that you were choosing to be with the mainstream.” The Sculptor Melvin Edwards Prepares for ‘Now Dig This!’ 2012-10-21T04:02:38Z

But on a much smaller scale, it could still succeed, as the original did, in making history “less abstract,” Dr. Delmont said. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Where “High Flying Bird” is both confrontational and elusive, intensely physical and analytically abstract, “What Men Want” is plainly foregrounded and simplistically flattened. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

A scroll of abstracted flowers, a hint of leopard spots and baroque flowers — all in one streamlined top-and-pants outfit — showed the creative duo’s skills. Special Report: Fashion: Catherine Versus Kate 2011-02-20T18:15:49Z

To be taken to an abstract somewhere I had not yet imagined. How Susan Sontag Influenced Patti Smith’s Reading Life 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

At meetings of the Club, a famous downtown discussion group made up mostly of abstract painters, he became friends with Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. Robert Goodnough, Painter Who Eluded Categories, Dies at 92 2010-10-13T03:57:00Z

There is no point talking about it in the abstract. Perspective | The World Cup will show us soccer is more than just thrilling. It’s art. 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Throughout “The Spectators,” such a notion is embodied by the images, which are sharp, concrete, deftly rendered, and also slightly abstracted at the same time. 'The Spectators' illustrates the push and pull of city life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

I also wanted to tell the story in an abstract way. A Minute With: Icelandic writer on setting a musical in an elbow 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Even in the most dizzying and abstract images, the impossible-not-to-imagine pine scent is bracing, the sap tacky on our fingers. Paper Gallery: ‘Joe’s Junk Yard,’ by Lisa Kereszi, and More 2012-10-18T21:31:56Z

But Mr. Morris’s choreography, abstracted yet bursting with emotion, was like that, too. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

On the wall opposite these dresses, a dozen James sketches revert back to a more abstract turn of mind. Art Review: American Style at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum 2010-05-06T22:29:00Z

“I didn’t want to do music with somewhat disconnected abstract imagery,” he said. ?Brooklyn Babylon? by Darcy James Argue and Danijel Zezelj 2011-11-04T15:26:17Z

In 2016, one of tins that make up the abstract work was bought in Milan for two hundred and seventy-five thousand euros. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Forget about Hopper's own pretensions, his abstract fancy-pants photos of street paintings, those candid snaps of his fellow myths in their heyday and his papier-mache banalities. For sale: Dennis Hopper's house 2010-10-04T19:30:00Z

An aspiring abstract painter in his youth, Mr. Rosenquist worked for years as a commercial artist, often perched on scaffolding hundreds of feet in the air. James Rosenquist, painter of unnerving large-scale masterworks, dies at 83 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The designers said they wanted to create an abstract floral painting feel to the line, whose mixed designs were also inspired by couples borrowing each other’s clothes. Ballroom meets the beach as Peter Pilotto opens Milan Fashion Week 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Smith’s ethos revolves around listening and singing, concepts so abstract as to seem meaningless, but which nevertheless compel the musicians around him. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The spacious interior is cleft down the middle by two towering white walls — an abstracted fjord — with high-up bridges that cross between them. ‘Mad dash to the finish’ as Seattle’s new Nordic Museum prepares for its grand debut 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

That portrait’s presence colors the viewer’s perception of the abstract pieces in the same gallery. Gerhard Richter’s (Sort of) Gifts for a New Museum Go on Show 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

"Jackson Pollock said that abstract art requires a lot of force." India's 'child Picasso' puts on his goggles and takes aim at the canvas 2012-07-03T13:40:55Z

Several line West Seventh Street, including The Edmund Craig Gallery, which features representational and abstract pieces by local and national artists. Cool Off in Fort Worth 2011-06-29T13:20:13.430Z

Her use of this material is a critique of the male-dominated world of abstract art and the view of the kitchen as a woman’s primary workplace. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

But the hearings also repeatedly made clear that this was not about an abstract principle or a bad thing that happened in the past. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Crocetta’s intricately textured paintings such as “Tidal Rhythms” are also abstract, but inspired by natural forms. Review | In the galleries: Two outdoor exhibits where sculptures take vegetal forms 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Some of the works of art become more conceptually abstract, as in Gretchen Bennett's color pencil drawings. Art preview: SAM's Kurt Cobain show traces the global influence wielded by a native son 2010-05-05T22:14:00Z

Egg chairs, midcentury sofas and jazzy abstract paintings of Khmer dancers are evocative of the era. Bauhaus on the Beach: A Corbusian Retreat in Cambodia 2011-10-27T12:40:00Z

Sally Timms of the Mekons opened “Queen of the Silver Dollar” as a spooky, melancholy dirge, with shimmering, abstract glissandos from the band, before settling it back into country. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z

Below are some abstracts of select articles from our upcoming inaugural issue. Porn Studies – from plumbing to narrative theory? 2013-05-03T12:48:41Z

This is a precise, if somewhat abstract, word for a chaotic, destructive pattern of behavior that Lydia’s position has allowed her to get away with. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

To be recognised as someone who truly knows their economics, it is not enough simply to master abstract theories. The worldly wonks 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Here is abstract art for our time, tactile and elusive.• Nan Goldin, Tony Cragg and Robert Rauschenberg ? the week in art 2011-07-22T12:06:33Z

“There is a lot of abstract work and work where the imaging is involved with the natural world.” Sotheby’s to Team Up With Drake 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The larger-than-life centaur sculpture Kardinal Julian of 2006, for instance, has a fanged mouth and an abstract painting in place of eyes, overshadowed by an SS officer's cap. Artist of the week 79: Andreas Hofer | Skye Sherwin 2010-03-18T13:04:00Z

Sometimes the globe became a swirling mass of abstract colors and shapes, suggestive of continental drift. Review: ‘The Tempest Songbook’ Closes Gotham Chamber Opera’s Season 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Coburn begins with her abstract oil paintings, selecting sections of them to reproduce in watercolor. In the galleries: Attention to detail 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

We were talking about the fact that for a dispiriting number of people, including in the White House, assault is merely an abstract concept to be strategically wielded. Perspective | A non-assault taught us a lot about the White House’s cynical view of real ones 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

While most of his titles are abstract — "Dormant Blue," or simply, often, "Untitled" — there are occasional references to narratives or landscapes. Art review: Horiuchi's collages, some rarely seen, demonstrate his mastery 2010-04-08T20:16:00Z

But the designer abstracted the school uniform references to the breast of a sweater or to box-pleated skirts, streamlined by sewing some panels together. Fashion Review: Pringle Plays With Uniforms While Topshop Goes Military 2012-02-20T19:07:46Z

His current obsession is photographing flowers in microscopic detail; the samples in his office are radiantly beautiful, resembling richly colored abstract paintings. Joel Grey, a Broadway Eminence, Comes of Age at 83 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

His abstract paintings, which touch on themes of violence and war, are collected by Charles Saatchi and Mr. Pinault, a frequent visitor to his studio. The Art World?s New Darlings 2011-06-03T20:03:02Z

On the scrim, we saw a series of black-and-white photographs of Wendy Whelan, the ballet dancer, and an abstract man made of stars. Outer Space, via Virtual Reality, in Prospect Park 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

At times, Girard’s abstract staging still seems to distrust the material, but kinetic conducting and a richly characterized central performance show that it may simply have been waiting for a few artists to redeem it. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s the way he sticks to approachable, figurative images that are playful, but never off-puttingly abstract. 50 works by beloved Seattle artist Jacob Lawrence on view in expansive exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Moses distinguished himself, Koshalek wrote, by combining “a plastic vocabulary rooted in European and American abstract art with a personal quest born out of his desire to continually reinvent himself and his art.” Ed Moses, 'Cool School' painter who helped forge L.A.'s art scene, dies at 91 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Seen from above in a model, the tumbling abstract disc forms recall the explorer Wilfred Thesiger’s description of the “apparently haphazard confusion” of the desert dunes. Architecture Review: Celebrating the Delicate Beauty of the Desert Landscape 2010-03-22T22:46:00Z

You can't wet something abstract, and an appetite falls into that category. 11 commonly misheard phrases that actually make sense 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

One of the first artists she showed, to the outrage of her neighbors, was the jazz-loving proto-Pop abstract painter Stuart Davis, whose seven works look especially great here. A Forgotten Pioneer’s Art World Is Resurrected at the Jewish Museum 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Most galleries serve refreshments, and the artists are often on hand to discuss their work, which includes a range of impressionistic watercolors, brightly colored abstracts, intricate etchings and sculptures. Old and New Wests Meet in Arizona Desert Foothills 2010-05-20T21:49:00Z

So those lines that we consider as being abstract, they’re probably more attuned spiritually than they are to abstraction. Wadada Leo Smith, Raising Issues With a Horn 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

As a teenager in Hamilton, Mass., despite being twitchy and shy, Burnham was enthralled by the abstract and dramatic. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Victor Velle’s documentary is certainly noble in its attempt to drive home some of the more abstract aspects of our environmental crisis, such as the global — and unequal — effects of local actions. ‘8 Billion Angels’ Review: Giving Earth Top Billing 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

“For me the death penalty was no longer an abstract thing,” Mr. Hargreaves told me recently. Last Meals on Death Row, a Peculiarly American Fascination 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

I ordered these shoelaces from Amazon, but all I found in the padded envelope with the abstract jet leaving behind a satisfied smile of a contrail was disappointment. Style Invitational Week 1325: Stand up and jeer — jokes for the WHCA dinner 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

It was one of some 20 large “pastoral” abstracts that Mr. de Kooning painted on Long Island during a creative resurgence. A Richter, Owned by Clapton, Fetches $22 Million at Christie’s 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Using grout, Molly Zuckerman Hartung gives a small green abstract canvas a protective border of tiny stones and bits of glass to poetic effect. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

I knew the practice was supposed to bring me closer to Jesus, who spent forty days fasting in the desert, but that closeness seemed so abstract a reward. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

It’s Low at its most abstract, and bleakest. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Simpler but just as striking is Jessica Beels’s array of abstract gestures, painted in metallic pigments on a ribbon of shiny black material. Review | In the galleries: Cultures, collisions, climate change and French connections 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Even more abstract is a picture of two electrical outlets in a bare white room with two green power cords. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

These works drew comparisons to muscular abstract paintings by Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov and others. Peter Voulkos, an Influential Sculptor Who Broke the Rules 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Bernice Bing, whose intense abstract expressionist paintings fused Eastern and Western techniques, had a lot going against her in the eyes of museum curators. Ignored in Life, Bernice Bing Is Discovered as Museums Rewrite History 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Another prominent pianist, Robert Glasper, dipped a toe into the art world with the abstract painter Mark Bradford. Jason Moran, From the Venice Biennale to the Village Vanguard 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Of course there are fashions; at the moment we have a wave of new narrative ballets, and perhaps a wave of abstract ballets will follow. ‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

As soon as you say what you see in his abstract configurations of swollen blobs, probing protuberances and welcoming crevasses, you feel that your words exaggerate the playful relationships that unfold in his elusive images. What to see in L.A. galleries: John Altoon, Maria Lassnig, a funky fairy tale and stenciled magic 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

To kick things off, the gallery has a new show of Krifka’s exuberant figurative paintings, all full of sex and death, balanced by the precise and cerebral abstract installations of the L.A.-based Goeritz. Datebook: Vintage car design, objects of desire, flight of the bumblebee 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s amazing to see how Mr. Ghesquière continues to abstract Balenciaga’s Spain. Fashion Review: Balenciaga, Rochas, Rick Owens, Dries Van Noten, Branquinho: Fashion Review 2012-09-28T00:07:01Z

Nearly 10 minutes long, “Tracer” features four dancers performing abstract movement and never straying far from the Rauschenberg wheel. How Do You Reconstruct Lost Choreography? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

“Lots of variables here. They could be looking at a Rembrandt and the kid is a tiny Rembrandt, or looking at an abstract and the kid is a tiny Pollock.” They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

The golden-yellow background of spiraling and wavy lines could almost pass for wallpaper and wainscoting; highlights and shadows are exaggerated, but not yet abstract; and the connoisseur’s pleasure, though unexplained, is evident. Winold Reiss, an Immigrant Modernist Way Ahead of His Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

She has a strong message, however abstract it is, and rare, but there’s something there that has a magnetism to it. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

One reflexively thinks they belong to different centuries, Soutine pursuing a painterly expressionism with its roots in the 19th century, while de Kooning is central to abstract expressionism in the middle of the last century. Review | Gehry renovation at the Philadelphia Art Museum is stunning and sleek, but suits the old building 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

At the start two film projectors run optically mesmerizing abstract films by Len Lye in which scratches in the film seem to dance to percussive tribal music. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z

Cinema often struggles with dramatising difficult ideas, particularly if they are abstract. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

He considers himself fortunate to lead a company that commissions so many full-length narrative ballets, as opposed to shorter abstract works, which are generally much less costly. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

They were precise and exact, yet to me they looked like abstract paintings. Alejandro Guijarro's best photograph – a Cambridge University blackboard 2013-06-19T17:12:58Z

On the plus side, Linda was smart to go deliberately abstract here, shunning the attempted photorealism of her peers for something with a little more artistic licence. 'It looks like a haunted waxwork': The Great British Bake Off bust cakes – ranked! 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

In form, too, his music evolved, from closed and abstract symphonic patterns toward open-ended, atmospheric stretches within a continuous unfolding of melodic transformation. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z

But meeting him at his home, Lewis isn't lost in ethereal spheres of abstract contemplation. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z

Mr. Utarit started his career painting abstract works, but he quickly moved toward a representational approach to explore Western established modes of painting, such as figuration, landscape and still life. Review: Art Shaped by Thailand's Changing Landscape 2010-11-22T12:09:00Z

A survey of the artist’s work from 1958 to 1970, as he turned from small abstract paintings to large acrylic discs and columns, and then his trademark site-specific works of light and space. A Nationwide Guide to Art Exhibitions This Spring 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

“To Amazon, you’re abstract. For me. it’s an actual, physical, material manifestation. It’s here, it’s present in my life,” she said. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

The artist doesn’t put herself, or any other human, into her blue-heavy ocean scenes, which are the show’s most abstract pictures. In the galleries: Deeply in the present but beholden to the past 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

He has been called an abstract expressionist and a color field painter. The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

To make it about dress as celebration of democracy, taking an abstract ideal and rendering it easy to access and to put into action. Politics Is Back in Fashion 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

“Master of None” reveals how it’s often easier to support a woman in the abstract than it is to actually condemn a man, especially if that guy is your blustering celebrity boss. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Mrs. Bratescu was working on abstract collages made of geometric shapes drawn with chunky marker pens and pieces of paper or found materials glued on top. Still Making Art, and Sly Jokes, at Age 91 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

Thus the reason abstract art poses such an enormous challenge to the beholder is that it teaches us to look at art — and, in a sense, at the world — in a new way. This is your brain on art: A neuroscientist’s lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

The genuine empathy that first seized him when he realized the extent of Libby’s pain quickly seems almost abstract — like the sympathy he might show a patient. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: A Finale That Tries, Vainly, for the Big Moment 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

I like when a movie has an abstract set of images because it allows you to access more of the fairy tale and mythic quality. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

The ballet’s premise is straightforward — three acts, “Emeralds,” “Rubies” and “Diamonds,” each an abstract representation of its music and each costumed to match its name in vivid green, lipstick red and sparkling white. Dance Review: The Bolshoi Performs Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ in London 2013-08-14T21:10:21Z

Polly found the idea a bit abstract, but she said yes. 'It gives you hope': the fight to save the fertility of children with cancer 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Wood’s position was in step with the isolationism of the 1930s, when abstract art was viewed by many as a Communist plot. Grant Wood at the Whitney Both Thrills and Disappoints 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Their photographs, videos and sculptures are richly narrative and abstract, with the artists testing different approaches to their topics. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The pastry chef, Stephanie Prida, stacks three egg-shaped scoops not in a sundae cup but one on top of another, like an abstract sculpture. The Ice Cream Sundae Must Be Stopped 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

He's an individual, rather than the embodiment of some abstract nemesis. Freddy Krueger is the greatest slasher villain 2010-05-02T22:30:00Z

A laser show projected images both historical and abstract on to the side of the mountain, while stirring music ramped up the atmosphere. Head for the Black Hills: tales of Crazy Horse and Custer in South Dakota 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Re: abstract finance ideas such as derivatives and futures, do you actually understand how all that stuff works? Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z

Intense color, grand scale and variations on a theme are all artistic devices that were common long before the rise of abstract painting. Review | In the galleries: Art that thrives in natural light 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The Art Guys claim the performance constituted a “real” wedding and that it was an effort to make a statement about abstract notices of cosmic and biological universalism. When two guys married a tree 2013-01-29T12:45:00Z

In the abstract, there is no one correct answer. Charcoal or Gas? Depends on What You’re Grilling 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

His best films are abstract, surreal and highly symbolic — and yet curiously entertaining in a traditional narrative sense.” Arts & Leisure: Ed Wood?s ?Final Curtain? Plays at Slamdance 2012-02-03T03:43:03Z

And the range is impressive, with figurative and abstract pieces, obvious and subtle ones, those that are introspective and those that shout. A Show of Artists Galvanized by the Abortion Debate 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Artists have been flocking to the Hamptons since the late 19th century, and abstract painting in particular has flourished there in more recent decades. Museum Shows With Stories to Tell 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

But at its best this engaging, unsettling piece not only distils abstract ideas into sharply visceral imagery, but offers a moving account of what it means to be human. Rosie Kay Dance Company – review 2013-03-15T17:33:37Z

He reduced and synthesized, creating an abstract feel to his scenes. A tribute to Paul Havas, skilled NW landscape painter 2012-03-07T22:57:03Z

At the end of this, I would read the abstract, where there would be, I found, no usable information, no mention of William Lacky, and certainly no mentioned of a swallowing. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

I mean, it is a disembodied and abstract infraction. Am I abandoning my daughter? 2012-08-17T00:00:00Z

It is worth remembering, when considering the ever-expanding definition of abstract art, that the term refers to the act of abstracting from reality. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

It resembles a modernist sculpture, an abstract, folk-art Giacometti stretched along the path. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z

Its brightly painted lines of play are fragmented and rearranged into a dynamic abstract composition. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Trisha’s development of an abstract narrative and a formal language resonated with a lot of people in the visual arts. 5 Artists on Working With Trisha Brown 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

“I just like the abstracting; it’s very experimental,” she said. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

That survey questioned more than 20,000 participants, according to the study’s abstract. Are left handed people smarter than right handed people? Here's what researchers say. 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

As for the “normal” paintings: On the second floor, their loose, abstract gestures contrast with the considered craft of the rug. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z

In the 1960s, he became one of the first artists in the world to use computers to help him create geometric abstract paintings. Czech abstract painter Zdenek Sykora dies at 91 2011-07-13T16:16:04Z

After a long absence, Kelela wafted back into public earshot with the abstract “Washed Away.” Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The resulting photographs, printed on smooth, shimmery aluminum, are visually complex plays on abstract painting, updated for our screen-addled age. From drops on a computer screen, Valerie Green creates tiny kaleidoscopic worlds 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Outside the clinic, abortion was vast and abstract. The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Brancusi’s monument consists of stacked geometric elements — conjoined, truncated pyramids — and as such suggest an ascension toward abstract infinity. Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

They’ll be recognized by fans of the records — including ones by D.C.’s Bad Brains and Minor Threat — but function just fine as abstract compositions. Review | In the galleries: Zenith celebrates 40 years with two exhibitions in two spaces 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Across the southernmost fields of Storm King, Mark di Suvero’s titanic steel articulations remain the paradigmatic sculptures of Storm King, their abstract concatenations of beams and panels towering majestically over the grassland. Storm King Reopens for the Art-Starved 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

This is a deliberately abstract, disorienting work that resists easy reduction to words. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Usually executed in just two or three colors, Battenfield’s pictures are part minimalist and part abstract. In the galleries: An early spring is always welcome 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Some of the individual shots are beautifully abstract, a whirl of muted color and geometric patterns. 'Steve McQueen: Drumroll' will be at MOCA Pacific Design Center 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

This approach tethers abstract imagery back to the real world: humble materials, homespun crafting and the sun. Katy Cowan: Art about art, with a playful side 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Matt Wedel, a ceramist based in Albany, Ohio, builds sculptures that often resemble organic forms; some are recognizable, like “Lemon Tree,” whereas others are more abstract, like the brightly colored “Fruit Landscape.” At Museums and Auctions, Private Treasures Are Unveiled 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

There was a debate about whether black art should be abstract or figurative. The Sculptor Melvin Edwards Prepares for ‘Now Dig This!’ 2012-10-21T04:02:38Z

A video screen shaped like ragged, torn paper was suspended over the Disney organ pipes, on which was presented abstract churchly imagery to set the scene. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

In the abstract, ripping software is not illegal, says American intellectual property lawyer Thomas D Sydnor II – it's covered by the US legal concept of "fair use". YouTube and Spotify ripping: why won't they act? 2013-06-19T12:07:16Z

The scenes Patterson + Reckinger compiled for “Pictures at an Exhibition” featured ghostly landscapes, abstract plays on light and space and even a group of dancing chickens. Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger turn animation into a wild sensory art installation 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Printed on the cards are abstract words, like “peace,” “respect” and “forgiveness.” Now Therapists Have to Figure Out Astrology, Tarot and Psychedelics 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Derek’s own way with words was at once epic and immediate, physical, literal, abstract, lyrical, guttural. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Newhouse sale, on May 11 — Christie’s attempted to sell three paintings by the renowned abstract expressionist Jasper Johns. 5 Takeaways From Auction Week 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, images of Seydoux in front of the abstract artist’s paintings have appeared online and in newspapers around the world to advertise the company’s Capucines handbags, some of which sell for $10,500. Joan Mitchell Foundation Claims Vuitton Ads Infringe on Painter’s Copyright 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

In luscious hard candy colours and glossy surfaces, their elegant interplay of mirrors, metal, resin and rubber could be abstract sculpture or designer decor. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

Gravitas is a sort of abstract firepower that does not need to pull the trigger. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

“I was fascinated by these colorful numbers — ornate signs that beckoned me by their mystery, and which as I matured I would understand to represent fundamental abstract concepts that rule our world,” he later wrote. Amir D. Aczel, author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and other best sellers, dies 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Her later works here, mostly acrylic paintings, might appear utterly abstract but they too seem to be the result of some kind of marking out of existential rhythms. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z

Pop is not usually an avant-garde art form, and as such it doesn't cope well with the abstract. You can't pick the lyrics out of pop 2010-12-09T12:07:00Z

Mr. Kelly developed his artistic vision soon after World War II, when abstract expressionism was emerging as the dominant movement of the time. Ellsworth Kelly, abstract artist of enduring influence, dies at 92 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

A pleasing abstract print by Ben Fry corresponds to letters of genetic code from Chromosome 21. Art Trek: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa 2014-04-04T17:47:11Z

In 1948, Willem de Kooning introduced his student Pat Passlof to his close friend and fellow abstract painter Milton Resnick as “the man he respected more than any other,” she recalled later in life. Milton Resnick Gets His Due on New York’s Lower East Side 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

For instance, two vertical rows of bright red Coletto plums by an unknown artist in 1888 have an intensely abstract aura. Perspective | These U.S. Agriculture Department paintings of fruits and nuts are actually stunning 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

I say “abstract” because, technically speaking, they are: broken and bent bars of color. Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

And while the dialogue can have a sharp back and forth, “Freed” is a bit long-winded and, at times, frustratingly abstract. | 'Freed': In ?Freed,? Being the First, Expectations Attached 2010-06-21T22:40:00Z

The extravagance of the fabrics, their abundance and abstract historicism, conveyed an uncompromising generosity, barely contained by the tiny space around them and imbued with the poignancy of the disappearing women inside. Magical Thinking at Céline and Comme des Garçons 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Malevich and his followers in abstract art, including El Lissitzky and Nikolai Suetin, wanted their paintings to trigger a “supreme,” or spiritual, reaction in the viewer, hence the name of the movement. Pushing Forward an Abstract Art Drive That Began a Century Ago 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Gaitonde, a modern artist known for his abstract and often monochromatic paintings. India to auction fugitive billionaire's art collection 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Heizer’s 1½-mile-long sculpture “City” is a collection of enormous ceremonial mounds and abstract forms made of earth, rock and concrete that evoke both the ruins of ancient civilizations and industrial technology. Obama designates Nevada site of Heizer's 'City' a national monument 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This surreal, disembodied effect heightens the impression of an abstract fleshiness, as if the nose has become a separate entity. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Initially, he made abstract work, experimenting with multiple images and enlarging his prints, often exhibiting his assemblages alongside found objects. Dennis Hopper's Lost Album: life both sides of the lens 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

But his ability to impart abstract impressions, as well as an attitude, is utterly fascinating. Fashion Review: Chanel, Chloé, Saint Laurent, Valentino: Fashion Review 2012-10-02T23:37:20Z

Bodies are repeated, layered, abstracted, and even enveloped in water, as in the case of the slightly surreal underwater photographs by Seattle-based Shelly Corbett. In ‘Get Naked,’ artists take back control of the female image 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

The group show also features Sherman’s abstract paintings on waterproof synthetic paper, which causes the pigment to pool, swirl and dry unevenly. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

“It can be as abstract or as complicated as you want.” Spare Times for Children for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

There are also the "Twilight Zone" episodes that don't deal with specific social issues but rather more abstract questions of how power can corrupt individuals. Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" in the Trump era 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

OK, I know I sound kooky but I also realize for me that while these ristualistic practices work for me for the most part — sometimes even I need a break from always pondering the abstract. All the witchy things I do to stay connected to the occult this season and every season 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

It looks at the artist’s interest in figuration at a time when abstract art was dominant, but also at how his sculptures became associated with existentialism. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Her approach, says Molly Donovan, the National Gallery’s curator of contemporary art, “brings the tradition of abstract painting into the present.” With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The legitimacy of abstract art, a matter for heated debate among critics and artists, was not an issue for Pip. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z

I noted blank, bemused or even outraged responses to some abstract canvases and anorexic-looking steel saints. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z

For the biennial, Ms. Abakanowicz submitted “Composition of White Forms,” in which she used old clothesline to create a rough abstract surface. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sculptor of Brooding Forms, Dies at 86 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Throughout the episode, Sirota draws out the tension between the composer’s abstract, distanced approach toward his music and the deeply personal emotion that his fans nevertheless hear in it. Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

I knew the music environment in which the story was going to be set would be a somewhat abstract territory. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The work in that exhibition was abstract and it shrewdly balanced rigidity and freedom, pattern and gesture. In the galleries: Out of nothingness — art 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Selldorf specializes in quiet, abstract Minimalist designs especially suited to museums. Should PoMo Architecture, at the 50-Year Mark, Be Saved? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The clothes were looser, more abstract, with a downbeat attitude that felt true and fresh.” | Rodarte Wins! 2011-02-17T01:31:52Z

Instead of a pastoral scene of English hills and trees, there’s an abstract backdrop, the work of artist Sophie Fedorovitch: looping black lines on a field of yellow and green. Review | Washington Ballet’s ‘Mixed Masters’ program marks growth of company 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Displayed in a group show in 1997 at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai, the large abstract canvases, with layered colors and textures, invited long contemplation. V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s not going to be about something specific; it’s about an abstract emotional journey.” I Went to My First Classical Music Concert. It Was in My Living Room. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Affixed to walls painted in wide stripes of yellow and white, these humble, abstract clay tablets embody a covenant with art. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

On returning to the United States, he enrolled in Yale University’s art school, where he studied with the abstract painter Josef Albers. William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

The distance from actual consequences makes the market chicanery seem more abstract and palatable. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 7: Greed Is Good. Except When It’s Not. 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

While Woolf was always careful to abstract somewhat from her personal past, and set “To the Lighthouse” on the Scottish Isle of Skye, it’s steeped with almost direct imagery from her time in Cornwall. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Even before that, though, well-regarded artists resisted the labels — “abstract expressionist,” “action painter” — devised for them. Portraiture show blends the abstract and the recognizable

In truth, it moves fluidly between the two, as solid rhythms splinter and abstract arrangements coalesce and crescendo. These New Puritans: Field of Reeds – review 2013-06-06T21:30:01Z

“Art students preferred professional works more often than did nonart students, but the two groups’ judgments did not differ,” the researchers write, concluding: “the world of abstract art is more accessible than people realize.” ArtsBeat: Laypeople Can Distinguish Aritists' Abstractions from Animals', Study Finds 2011-03-09T19:00:20Z

In fact, by the 1930s, the popularity and nationalist importance of aviation led to the swirling, abstracted aerial imagery of the movement’s final incarnation, aeropittura. The Guggenheim Celebrates the History of Italian Futurist Art and Design 2014-02-26T05:00:00Z

Internet chat also is the subject of Jaqui Falkenheim’s “Zoom World,” which abstracts the experience into collages that combine wispy, pastel gestures and solid black text. Review | In the galleries: Sequence of photographs creates a graphic continuity 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

She helped found the Arab Cultural Center in Beirut and in 1947 exhibited at its gallery in what was often cited as the first showing of modern abstract art in the Arab world. Saloua Raouda Choucair, Early Exponent of Abstract Arabian Art, Dies at 100 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

In Britain he was seen as an abstract painter, in the United States as representational — a puzzle. Howard Hodgkin, Whose Paintings Were Coded With Emotion, Dies at 84 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Asphodel Meadows is an abstract piece, but it's an abstraction through which the emotion bleeds freely. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

No matter how much the play may feel abstract to us, it is evidently not so to him, and so his speech recolors everything we’ve seen before. Review: Staging a Movie Melodrama in ‘The Conversationalists’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Her paintings combine a distinctly urban jangle with a slightly tawdry, rather literal inner light, while deftly sampling abstract strategies that range from Frank Stella’s stripe paintings through lyrical abstraction to graffiti art. Art in Review: KELTIE FERRIS: KF + CM 4EVER 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z

Taking a more abstract approach, Davis’s work speaks to our society’s belittling treatment of the complexities of race. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the last room, Lara Schnitger's recent works, which dress up tall poles in abstract warrior-princess costumes of leather and lace, nod back to the tall, skinny, totemic personages by Bourgeois in the first room. New gallery adds another dimension with its spacious 'Abstract Sculpture by Women' 1947-2016 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It’s alternately abstract and down to earth, recognizable and strange, and consistently surprising. | 'Kuroneko': Tragic Love Tale of Spirits and Samurai 2010-10-21T23:12:00Z

Later on, the track “Butterflies” steps into an abstract narrative about a forbidden relationship too complicated to articulate in full: “You’ve got a family of your own,” she sings, “and you know my situation.” A Female Rapper Pushes Forward 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

His father, an artist, focuses on abstract shapes and erotic imagery in various media. Sarah Paige, Daniel Doktori 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s, after a one-man show at the Phillips Collection of his abstract paintings when he was 23, he found himself selling lots of his work, but his popularity didn’t sit well with him. Daniel Brush at the Museum of Arts and Design 2012-10-13T04:02:02Z

Dickerson deftly uses Constantin’s story to elucidate the human side of the immigrant debate, a bitterly partisan argument a large segment of America views in the abstract. Why the NY Times is breaking this devastating story about an asylum-seeking family on TV 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

Even within groups that lend themselves to some broad categorization — abstract compositions, figural paintings — the absence of shared aesthetics is glaring. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Buyers Wonder, Will It Appreciate Over Time? 2011-02-24T13:00:03Z

It focuses on Irwin’s early career, during the 1960s, when he began questioning, and refining, his first impulse to abstract painting. Art so good it needs a spoiler alert 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Those who prefer their choreography more abstract and their theater less middlebrow will have to look elsewhere. 'In Your Arms' a pleasing, sketch-heavy dance-musical at the Old Globe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

It didn’t become fundamentally different, but it went from being abstract notions to being particular, and therefore sort of flawed. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Concrete details stand in contrast to the presence of an abstract whole—a whole that shapes life, but isn’t wholly visible from within it. The whole seems allied with nature, but not, in itself, natural. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

It was showing modest portraits and still lifes at a time when abstract painting, the bigger the better, was considered the advanced style. Art Review: When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street 2011-01-20T22:51:36Z

Just the abstract beauty of nature — the streaks and whorls of green water and red earth, as the screen drifts from dunes to reef to river delta. When TV Goes Right Past Meditative to Vegetative 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

The show, through Jan. 29, demonstrates his abstract style, emphasis on color and design, and the considerable influence of his tours of duty in Asia. Faithful to Two Worlds: The Marines and the Artistic Life 2010-12-19T22:58:16Z

They're both realistic in form and abstract at once, simultaneously conjuring the corporeal human body and a cerebral prism of history and pop culture. Dustin Yellin adds his mark in L.A. with art that's a 'missile for social change' 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Strassberger emphasizes this in a production that frames the plot as Tamara’s flashback and mingles its various settings through abstract stage imagery, with extensive use of videos. Review: Rubinstein’s ‘Demon’ Is Redeemed in a Rare Staging 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

There is demand for abstract painting by certain names at auction. A Frieze Art Fair That’s All Grown-Up 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

She is not only raising questions about the scale of abstract expressionist canvases, she’s cutting them down to size. Review | Artist Lynda Benglis became controversial in an instant, but her career has thrived for decades 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Gaines would take images -- a tree, a moving dancer -- and render them on specially created grids, capturing layers of shadow or movement in densely abstracted, coolly mathematical pieces. Datebook: Conceptual grids, earthy caves and lots of Italian masters 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Cézanne got there first, then the abstract painters pushed still further: Kandinsky and Miró point towards the profound realities of quantum physics as these gradually emerged after the first world war. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z

He walked over to a boxy, abstract sculpture he was building on the gallery floor and pointed to one of its jutting shelves. Artists re-imagine Seattle with ‘what if?’ exhibit of the doable and the wild 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

“It’s an abstract sound, and it’s meaningful — and then the all-clear,” she says in the film. Amplifying the Women Who Pushed Synthesizers Into the Future 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Rose Mary was a prolific artist who produced all kinds of paintings — rural landscapes, urban scenes, abstract fantasias, portraits, still lifes — but she could not bear to part with them. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

And we've bought up any amount of rubbish by an imprisoned Hungarian abstract impressionist. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z

Rather than surround a crib, though, the simulated sky is the backdrop for an array of tiny abstract canvases. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Projected light creates dynamic shadow play that turns the Marciano’s huge first-floor gallery into an abstract 3-D film. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The springy premise here is storytelling, allowing eight young photographers to bounce ideas around between documentary, fiction and more abstract work. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z

Although the pictures are largely flat, their contours and tones invoke abstract steel and iron sculpture. Review | In the galleries: Tehran doesn’t reveal itself readily 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Most of the works are abstract images of cut paper constructions and lighting fixtures. David Haxton's continuing exploration of light 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Admirable as this approach may seem in the abstract, there is something stingy about it in practice. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

But some of the songs are quite abstract. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

“And there were more abstract forms, depriving people of jobs, safe housing, adequate schools.” Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers Big Ideas in Close Quarters 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Here, as in the looming hush of Dia Beacon, it is still possible to believe in modernist art as a fairly linear progression of abstract, stripped-down-to-essences art movements. Dia Chelsea, Keeper of the Avant-Garde Flame 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Rivette, as a crucial advocate of so-called auteurs, was an advocate not of artistic demiurges or abstract creators but of people who reveal and test their character by directing films. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

They are the muffled starting pistol of an oeuvre where the figurative and the abstract always haunt each other, and where meaninglessness speaks volumes. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. McNerney, along with many professionals in the art market, acknowledges that Mr. Richter’s abstracts are the commercial ne plus ultra of that category. Art: The Great Divide in the Art Market 2014-04-27T16:01:16Z

Four years earlier, Kazimir Malevich, one of the first abstract artists, developed his Suprematist style designing stage sets for the futuristic Russian opera “Victory Over the Sun.” ‘Marvelous Sugar Baby’ as a Contribution to Ephemeral Art 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

“There’s a frustration on the law and advocacy side about how abstract some of these issues can seem to the public,” Mr. Wizner said. Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

On view until July 2, the show includes several rocks, a room of abstract paintings from the 1960s and immense new painted steel sculptures that hark back to work Mike did during the ’70s. Michael Heizer’s Big Work and Long View 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

This abstract staging deftly employs movable screens, billowing fabrics, stylized costumes and, most daringly, a life-size puppet manipulated by three black-clad puppeteers to portray Butterfly’s son. Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:38:38Z

“It’s very random and you don’t sort of question it. … He writes in a very abstract way.” Depp witness: Actor was Southern gentleman; Heard was mean 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Briggs peppers his abstract canvases with objects and motifs from his day job as a scene painter, primarily using Benjamin Moore paints bought from a hardware store rather than an art supply store. 10 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

What seemed ironclad and sacred earlier in the day now looms like some tiny and abstract prohibition scarcely worthy of our attention. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

Not directly, but talk to many scientists about the arts, especially abstract genres, and they can be quite naive. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

It was a drive through Bakersfield at dusk that inspired a turning point in the art of Mary Weatherford, who is exhibiting her abstract canvases, touched by bits of neon light, at David Kordansky Gallery. Essential Arts & Culture: Luminous canvases, a mirrored house and all the 'Hamilton' you can handle 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Others are abstract and collective, involving the fate of the nation and the nature of happiness. ‘Futura’ Review: Youth, Italian Style 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

It's almost a little abstract short film stuck in the middle of a visually conservative, Deep South spin on hard-boiled detective fiction. 3. "Winter's Bone" 2010-12-31T13:01:00Z

After listing things like massages and dancing, the conversation grows more abstract: EMILY: I like myself, actually. The Fiction of Self-Exposure 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

I’d heard of compression socks as a remedy for deep-vein thrombosis, a condition that seemed as abstract and distant to me as amnesia or face blindness. A Word of Thanks for My Compression Socks 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Yet, at the end of the ’60s, as if summoning the cooler feminist era, Webb evolved from a figural artist to an abstract one. T Magazine: The Ring Cycle 2011-11-28T15:00:57Z

While Americans are probably more familiar with abstract wooden sculptures from Africa, these early pieces are more detailed. Inside Art: A Late Picasso Painting Is for Sale at Sotheby?s 2010-04-22T22:34:00Z

They were all uniquely American, rather like the abstract expressionist painters. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

It retains the full respiratory grandeur of his large seascapes, the nearly abstract polychromes of his late whaling pictures. J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

The second performance, the one going on inside the 135-year-old house, is a bit more abstract and in its larval stages. Third Rail Troupe Takes Over Governors Island House 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

“The cool thing about it is it’s simultaneously real and abstract,” Brian Yang of BIG says. | The Shape of Things 2014-04-08T13:00:00Z

It all worked as terrific abstract design, but music that funny and alive called for a story, and there was a clever bit of film-noir woven through with an exceptionally light, fine-tipped touch. The colorful restraint of the Mark Morris Dance Group 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

While some Americans felt embarrassed by this contortionist comic, the French embraced Mr. Lewis’s humor as both an abstract art and social satire of American life. Why France Understood Jerry Lewis as America Never Did 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

The only escape, he said, was through art, the best form of which was music because of its abstract nature. Malevich: Master of the avant-garde 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Throughout the EP, Harris-White's flinty voice carves controlled melodies, Irons' nimble raps are alternatingly abstract and blunt, and the pair harmonize seamlessly. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z

On the piano-backed folk song “Mary,” Lenker recalls a friendship in lyrics that seem almost old-fashioned and yet also abstract in the manner of Gertrude Stein. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Most of these artifacts bear witness to an abiding devotion to curvilinear, sinuous, abstract designs and an absence of the literal representation of humans and animals. Cultures of the Celts, Revisited 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Blending sweetness and darkness, tragedy and domestic comedy, abstract art-school cinema and documentary realism, "Putty Hill" is a fresh, vital and emotionally engaging indie breakthrough. "Putty Hill": An off-the-radar indie breakthrough 2011-02-18T21:20:00Z

The emotional center and main interior public area is the gallery, a light-filled space in which Douglas fir beams are angled like an abstract forest. Light Footprint 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z

The same was true when Mr. Alden’s 1930s “Don Giovanni” for City Opera kept its basic mood but dulled its sharp strangeness in its cross-country move to Mr. Gehry’s abstract installation. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

It looks delicious, with Persian-miniature style, jewelled satin and organza costumes set against abstract backdrops of raspberry-coloured damask and curving, speckled mirrors. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

“Agnes Martin: The New York-Taos Connection” shows Martin evolving from a sensitive landscape watercolorist to a painter of gray, abstract grids. At Tacoma Art Museum: Camille Patha’s vivid ‘Punch of Color’ 2014-02-27T22:26:49Z

Unfortunately, the abstract painting she gave me looks like something you’d find in a generic hotel hallway. My Brother-in-Law Vilified Us Online. Should We Still Have Him Over? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

And although that might seem too obvious an observation — or too abstract a distinction — for established orchestras and smaller ensembles alike, this problem of presence brought on by the pandemic amounts to a creative crisis. Perspective | As the novelty of Zoom wears off, classical music reluctantly embraces its new virtual reality 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Near this installation hang a set of fuzzy, multicolor abstract photographs, the “Static” series from 2009, which depict the insides of cathode ray tubes. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

“I’ve never bought it, and the general public has never bought it either,” he said of abstract art in an interview with The Boston Globe in 1986. John Stobart, Celebrated Maritime Painter, Dies at 93 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Hurt and his wife, Anwen Rees-Myers, were in town Friday through Monday to pick up that abstract black “Swan of Avon” statue at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Annual Gala, held Sunday. John Hurt receives Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual award

The description of Damien Davis’s “Little Penny Collector,” a huge, seemingly abstract wooden jigsaw puzzle, does not tell all. Grown-Up Art at a Children’s Museum. But It’s Still Playtime. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

All the while she longs for an abstract and impossible freedom. Theater Review: ‘Machinal’ Examines a Wife Driven to Kill 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z

Perhaps one of the problems is a tendency to tackle these big questions in ways that are too general and abstract. Music is a vital strand of our social fabric 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z

Exactly, there’s been an emphasis on abstracting the plane itself to really streamline it. With a Drone on the High Line, an Artist Re-emerges From Controversy 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

But, alas, I was never that good of a draftsman, so my drawing has become more simplified and abstracted over the years. Ivan Brunetti’s “First Date” 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

And the objects included — stained reflective films; a flickering, black-and-white, abstract video installation in a corner — do all revolve around the passage of time. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Gunilla Klingberg, who lives and works in Sweden, explores the abstract by taking corporate logos and combining them into new geometric shapes. At Malevich Exhibition, a Journey of Ideas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

In small oil paintings, abstract strokes and daubs of color coalesce into sketchy, featureless figures; in related ink drawings they resemble large-headed African sculptures. Review: African Art in a Game of Catch-Up 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

She says she realized the potential of fabric in 1911, when she made a patchwork quilt for her newborn son and saw that it evoked the abstract patterns of cubist art. Art in motion: Sonia Delaunay textiles on view 2011-03-18T13:01:03Z

Yet somehow, instead of feeling abstract or general, it is more succinct, more poignant and more pressingly urgent than a roomful of research papers, a month of Sunday sermons, a year of news reports. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Even so, the other works do have a similarity to Ms. Thomas’s — lots of color, a balance of the figurative and the abstract and a tilt toward collagelike compositions. Mickalene Thomas Shares Everything. Even a New Show. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

There’s a lot of jazz, things that are more abstract. Harold Ancart Brings His Kaleidoscopic Trees to Chelsea 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Fabricated in the ancient technique of coil building, this abstract sculpture does not appear to be made from clay at all. Feat of clay 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In nearly every case, neo-Classicism gives way to realism, which yields to the reductive or abstracting tendencies of Modernism. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z

Another display at the Anchorage this fall will speculate on future places of refuge in a burning world, albeit in abstract terms. Climate Exhibitions Look Beyond Declarations of Calamity 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

In 2005 an exhaustive biography about him won a Pulitzer Prize; several of his seminal abstract canvases have fetched high prices both at auction and privately. Inside Art: The Cat Is Stuffed, but the Bird Is Real 2011-01-06T22:44:44Z

The bus becomes an abstract mass of speed – Parkinson's use of colour is scintillating, with the slender model wearing a red cap and black dress and leaning against a black and white pelican-crossing signpost. Sir Norman Parkinson, fashion photographer, celebrated in Google doodle 2013-04-21T11:51:32Z

Baltimore artist Emily Campbell fills a room with white-on-black wall figurative drawings that flank spindly white totems, abstract yet with a sense of ceremonial power. Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The films, Diller says, “are more abstract than the animations”; they treat the clothes as objects of contemplation, rather than of desire. Charles James Couture, Come Alive 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

In his abstract paintings at Tate Modern, he does not resemble Cézanne so much as Monet. Off the scale: why Gerhard Richter towers above the artists of today 2010-11-22T14:51:00Z

The piece rotates languorously, to a low-key track that the sisters composed, offering abstract and realistic angles as it moves. 29Rooms Is a Creative Playhouse for the Instagram Set 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gottlieb said that the Museum Park project reflected “memory mapping” research indicating that “if you ask people to remember an experience, they filter ideas that are more abstract.” A Park as an Extension of the Museum Itself 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Yet she, too, is theatrical, a funster: last weekend some of her work had to be closed off because someone had interacted too enthusiastically with it, knocking over one of those abstract birds. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z

They appeared as occasional floral prints, abstracted as a hazy pattern on part of a T-shirt, rather than competing with the abundant flowers in the summer garden. Special Report: Jil Sander: Bright Is Right 2010-06-18T12:40:00Z

Ms. Smith contributes writings that are more abstract and poetic. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

But, as a sixth grader, he took the advice of a friend in class, who leaned over and suggested he try abstract art. Nights at the Museum: Good for Cultivating an Art Habit and Romance 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Still, influence is a popular subject, and detecting its operation from one artist to another yields satisfying insights — especially when dealing with abstract art. Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibition documents a one-way love affair 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Other pieces are embellished with stylized renderings of plants and birds or tidy abstract patterns. Review | In the galleries: ‘Misprints’ exhibition takes a purposeful approach 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Iain Hetherington paints baseball caps with a familiar NY logo, set among abstract splotches, as if the caps had been tossed into a hedge. Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent 2010-06-06T21:00:00Z

Ray emerged in the mid-1970s as a keen ironist questioning sculpture’s fundamental principles by incorporating performance and process into his abstract assemblages. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

He also said that when they first spoke, Mr. Lee didn’t even talk about products — just the abstract meaning of the brand. Millennials Are Taking Over Fashion Too 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

But it does tend, I think, to get short-circuited, replaced by an abstract halo of “suffering,” and sublimated into Kahlo’s glamour, her status as a feminist icon. Review | You might think you know Frida Kahlo, but you’ll never understand her pain 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

In one memorable shot, taken by a drone over a camp in Iraq, the beige tents are arranged like some vast abstract canvas. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

His geometric abstract paintings are the subject of a gorgeous retrospective exhibition that opens Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Conversations about sustainability can be pretty abstract,” said David Townsend, the founder and chief executive of TownRock. Harnessing an Unusual Kind of Natural Energy: Dancers’ Body Heat 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Just as subtly, the show makes a good case for that understated, overtouted abstract painting based on unusual materials or processes. Art Exhibitions From Chelsea to the Lower East Side 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

But the show is abstract enough to allow other interpretations. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z

The embarrassing, some say shameful, question is how artists like Mr Gilliam and Thomas, and Norman Lewis, another abstract expressionist, were ever forgotten. Rediscovery 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

There is something abstract and generic about the emotional abuse the siblings suffered at the hands of their obnoxious father and passive mother. Books of The Times: ?Carry the One,? a Novel by Carol Anshaw 2012-03-12T21:38:55Z

But he lamented that a dark, abstract, violent production of Verdi’s “Aida” that he did in London failed to catch on. Hollywood? Nope. The Met Will Do for David McVicar. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Seattle photographer Art Wolfe, in an essay on Mr. Namkung, confirms this: “He interpreted and transformed the landscape into something much more abstract, much more intimate, and much more truthful.” Fine-art photographer Johsel Namkung dies 2013-07-27T22:29:36Z

“As a songwriter, her abstract poetry mixed with a literal mind is just unbelievable,” she said. Allison Russell Faces Her Past in Song 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

It appears at first to be as abstract as any dark-hued Rothko canvas. 'Videowatercolors' play with time and space 2011-11-02T21:05:05Z

In Aakriti, abstract dance and solo voice wind an intricate pattern of sound and movement that evokes the rich detail of temple sculpture. This week's new dance: Edinburgh special 2011-08-19T23:10:11Z

To recognize an abstract obligation to people somewhere else is at best foolish — as portrayed through the big-city tree-huggers the show occasionally brings out to lose arguments — and at worst, disloyal. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The colors in the “Fold” paintings seemed more iridescent; the abstract symbols and glyphs in Auerbach’s drawings appeared to pulse and vibrate. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

And in this context, the panels of abstract patterning — based on traditional Burmese fabric designs — function as balancing, steadying elements. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

As an intellectual, he argued that pure abstract painting was the logical and necessary conclusion of modern art. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z

At other times both Traylor's and Gans' work borders on the abstract — for example in "Bittersweet" where, in contrasting ways, ceramist and photographer weave rounded shapes and spiky shapes together into not-quite-figurative patterns. Sight, sound and words mix in David Traylor's 'bowl of water' at Seattle's Gallery 110 2010-11-15T05:01:00Z

The Blackwoods just as often take us deep into the abstract and the unknown. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Eileen Quinlan’s silver gelatin print, an angular abstract, seemingly made with light, shadow and perhaps a shard of mirror, is only slightly more substantial. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

Like his mesmerizing “After the Rain,” it offers two figures moving through an abstract landscape. Review: Ballet Is Spectacle in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

My “cause,” such as it was, was abstract and perhaps even abstruse. I stood up for the national anthem by sitting down for it 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

But the student rebellion of 1968 in Paris — the historic Events of May — traumatized the French architectural world, which subsequently questioned the cold, abstract formalism of Modernist architecture within a larger postmodernist critique of consumerism. A French Modernist Masterpiece, Lost and Found 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

It operates in the abstract; it lets you figure out what it means. Video Games: Unfinished Swan, Assassin’s Creed and Need for Speed 2012-11-06T22:45:43Z

MacMillan's Concerto is one of the choreographer's rare abstract dance works, virtuoso dance set to Shostakovich's second piano concerto and hinging on a central pas de deux of beautifully sustained lyricism. This week's new dance 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Drawings in the exhibition show how their design scheme evolved from a theatrical Pan-Asian look, with minarets and murals of Isfahan, to an Islamic-modernist hybrid that emphasized abstract patterns. Art Review: ‘Doris Duke’s Shangri La’ at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-09-06T21:15:21Z

Not surprisingly, the most purely sculptural, abstract hats are often the most striking, while relatively representational ones tend to make weaker impressions. Art Review: Hats, by Stephen Jones, at Bard Graduate Center - Review 2011-09-22T22:03:10Z

“Untitled V” is an abstract work of reds, yellows and whites not seen in public since 1980. Warhol Painting Could Set Record For Artist 2013-11-13T19:13:58Z

"When the war was over, I went on to other subjects and never returned to it," said Pollock, now a painter focusing on landscapes and abstract works. Pa. art exhibit shows war through soldiers' eyes 2010-09-19T19:01:00Z

The gestures and motion are part naturalistic, part abstract, and emotion rushes in. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Montgomery’s photographs capture the humanity of people for whom this lineage is not an abstract concern. Flash Points 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

The book-matched French walnut paneling is glossier and more radiant, the patterns in the grain more evocative of monumental abstract paintings, than before. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that magical yet iffy omniscience — Sassy calls herself a griot, or traditional keeper of stories — would have felt less jarring in a more abstract production. Review: In ‘This Land Was Made,’ Huey Newton Walks Into a Bar 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

That abstract neighborhood is as real as the bookstore that used to exist down the street from the place you live or work, or the clerks and managers who used to work there. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

It withdrew support and gave a push to Minimalism, blank and abstract enough to block out bad news. Pop Art International: Far Beyond Warhol and Lichtenstein 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Bradley was among a handful of Black artists, along with Gilliam, Clark and Williams, making abstract work in the late 1960s and 1970s. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

“I knew his work far before we met, and he had so much influence on me,” said Johnson, who has made his name with plant-filled installations and abstract, pandemic-era anxiety drawings. Sam Gilliam ‘Took a Step Most People Didn’t Understand Was Possible’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Most of Mr. Peck’s works for City Ballet have been abstract, but they all contain dozens of tiny stories — vignettes of love, rejection, yearning; odd situations; sudden encounters, suggestions about group behavior. Review: In Paris, a Bold Ballet Adventure From Justin Peck 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

For many of us, climate change can seem abstract, but the natural world is very sensitive to temperature change. What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

For many of its champions, the tinkering character of the digital humanities represents a kind of artisanal inquisitiveness, a hands-on, tool-building, map-making ethos that chafes against more abstract modes of humanistic inquiry. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wood’s cadaverous, perpetually abstracted character rarely seems to register what Erie’s saying. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The bronze solidifies into lacy, abstract forms, like fan coral crossed with Queen Anne's lace. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

These events disturb him, while also pressing him into a furious creativity; he begins to paint abstract portraits, not simply of faces and bodies but of the souls within them. Review | Haruki Murakami turns his gaze toward middle age 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

But, she said recently, one of the highlights of her career was a piece that few people will ever see: an abstract mural of a night sky in a London psychiatric hospital. Bringing World-Class Art, and Wonder, to Mental Health Patients 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Whether acrylic on canvas or watercolor on paper, the pictures abstract natural forms and contrast hard-edged forms with fluid, drippy gestures. In the galleries: Katrina and a tempest of symbols 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

While resisting the imperative to go purely formal, these artists were influenced by the bold ambitions of their abstracting peers and tried in their own ways to “See It Loud,” or paint it loud. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z

In this version the song is further abstracted, pulled wide like taffy, and yet the stir and resonance of the trio gives it a rooted quality. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

But “Unsupervised” is so abstract you’d never know that Faith Ringgold’s “American People Series #20: Die,” a bloody tableau of a 1960s uprising, may have provided shades of yellow, brown and red. MoMA’s Daydream of Progress 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Kevin, who will be a junior in high school in the fall, said that when art is more abstract, it is more difficult to interpret and he loses interest. Is It Art? Eyeglasses on Museum Floor Began as Teenagers’ Prank 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

You would laugh about any philosopher who’d start developing an idea with this — it’s impossible, it’s not made for abstract thinking. The Carpetbagger: James Cameron, Wim Wenders Thanks You 2012-02-10T19:42:47Z

The sculptures in “Brighter Days” are less visceral and more monumental than the “Lynch Fragments,” resembling the abstract, burnished steel sculptures of David Smith. Sculpture Transplanted to the Gardens 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

So did the computer-generated patterns — bright lacquer red with lagoon blue in abstract, crisscross motifs — judiciously used so as not to overwhelm a quieter piece in white or black. Sense and Sensibility 2012-09-25T18:19:08Z

Those on view this year will include the artist Edwin Burdis’s “The Thickening,” an installation that combines large playground-like structures with abstract paintings. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

But it's when he pushes his images almost into abstract territory that he achieves his most powerful effects. Adams, Namkung: nature at Woodside/Braseth 2011-09-29T20:05:03Z

Collectors Ann and Donald Brown strategically positioned abstract sculptures so they can be viewed through the glass walls of their modern house. Home & Design: Yard art, Washington-style, including a Calder and a fiberglass cow

The Blackburn Prize comes with $25,000, as well as a signed print by the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning. Benedict Lombe Wins the Blackburn Prize for ‘Lava’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

Redmayne portrayed the young, increasingly disillusioned assistant to Rothko, the abstract expressionist who agonizes over whether to accept a lucrative commission for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City. "Red," "Memphis" win big at the Tonys 2010-06-14T03:39:00Z

Inside, 22 of his artworks, including six abstract canvases with his signature bands and blocks of color, energize a space that is more than 1,000 years old. Sean Scully: Painting From the Heart, to the Heart 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

“I tend to buy something there every year,” said Pamela J. Joyner, a collector who specializes in abstract works by artists of African descent. Important Arts Fair Looks for Balance in Miami Beach 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The way you frame shots overhead, on a bias, or as an almost abstract is remarkable. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

His sculptures — abstract, tall industrial pieces incorporating materials like propane tanks and shovels — dot the city and suburbs. For Detroit Artists, Almost Anything Goes 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

This made several pieces sound similar, like exercises, with equal degrees of "feeling" applied to the surface in different spots on different abstract shapes. Yuja Wang returns, surmounting every technical demand 2011-03-14T16:50:59Z

In the abstract, it was fascinating to ponder future uses of smart fabrics that react to environmental factors — particularly the military camouflage they were designed to produce. At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Through thick, abstract applications of paint and polyurethane foam, Mahmudova transforms the surface of her canvases into lush, dreamy, three-dimensional planes. See Azerbaijani Artist Aida Mahmudova’s First U.S. Exhibition 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The movement can be, at its best, elegantly post-Merce Cunningham abstract. Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

“We’re going to see more public art, whether it’s sculpture, figurative, abstract, commemorating people or events, that relate specifically to the Black community,” said Goodwin, of Art U.K. In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

In “Rocks, Sea and Sky,” the nearly abstract composition conjures the image of uneven cliffs along a shore line seen from somewhere at sea. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z

Indeed, his human figures are abstracted into giant-eyed doll faces and stiff legs, as if walking clumsily on stilts. Is Hayao Miyazaki Gone With The Wind? 2013-09-02T19:29:07Z

However, while “Swarm Cell” is admirable in its diversity and cultural overview, it also is stylized to the extreme, the ritual tactics not always dovetailing with even abstract storytelling. 'Swarm Cell' at Greenway Court is a cryptic take on 'Grapes of Wrath' 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Breer, a painter by training, turned to animation after making flip books and stop-action films based on the abstract paintings he produced while living and exhibiting in Paris in the 1950s. Robert Breer, Pioneer of Avant-Garde Animation, Dies at 84 2011-08-18T03:41:08Z

Beautifully photographed and very abstract, this is one of the best films of the early 2000s. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "One Day" 2011-08-18T13:02:08Z

What follows is more abstract, but plays upon the idea of friendly interaction among comparative strangers. Review: ‘The Fever’ Finds That Friendliness Can Be Contagious 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

There he became a significant avant-garde figure, before turning from abstract to figurative painting in the mid-1960s, partly as a result of seeing an exhibition of Caravaggio at the Louvre. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z

Sculpture is one: a set of free-standing shelves in the center of the gallery holds several abstract varieties, all on a hand-holdable scale. Art in Review: DEVIN TROY STROTHER: ?The Me and You, Your Mother and Maybe Even Your Cousin Too & The Hey Sister, Soul Sister Go Sister, Woah Sister.? 2011-09-15T21:15:09Z

He can be a difficult writer, not because his books are obscure or abstract, but rather because the writerly personality that emerges in their pages is irreducibly complicated. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

“It was like you see the story made flesh. You see something that has existed as really an abstract possibility suddenly become real.” Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

The soundstage was occupied on a recent afternoon by a crew shooting a scene from the Mussolini series, colorful abstract patterns in pale pinks and blues dancing across the screen. The Stars Are Shooting Again on the Tiber 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

There he began as an abstract painter but soon, influenced by Surrealism, began to introduce images from the comic books and magazine ads that had been his primary visual resources as a kid. The Wild, Anti-Authoritarian Art of Peter Saul 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Yerushalmy’s work, which includes the abstract, the mundane and the surreal, provides strong material for examination. Dance Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:25:40Z

The title story — although too abstract to move us — provides a key to the book. ‘Men Without Women,’ a new story collection by Haruki Murakami 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

The other reason is abstract yet comes with more comprehensive, tangible consequences. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband with low self-esteem lashes out at negative feedback 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Seated around him were the architects Frank Gehry, who created the gleaming metal building, and Jean Nouvel, who designed the opera’s abstract and colorful sets. From the Paris Catwalk to a Los Angeles Stage 2013-05-30T06:37:03Z

“Everyone at the Bauhaus was searching for this abstract visual language,” Ms. Ryan said. Transformed by Mexico, Six Women Broke Barriers Between Art and Design 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

While Ms. Satter first envisioned “Ancient Lives” as “cheerleaders in the woods,” it’s evolved into something just a little more sober and abstracted. Tina Satter Readies the Stage for ‘Ancient Lives’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

While Morris makes space not only for abstract painting but for other variously condescended aesthetic forms, Bradley, not having had the luxury of such freedom, makes space only for himself. Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

So it's an abstract epic of pursuit and survival – desperate figures in a wild landscape – with very little dialogue but a thrilling camera style and stunning, untouched terrain? David Thomson on Jerzy Skolimowski 2011-03-24T22:17:00Z

The works are at first view entirely abstract. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

“This is a very real problem, not an abstract one. It is not about political correctness, it is about correcting systemic exclusion.” Dear white Hollywood: Here are 3 things you need to hear about your defensiveness on race 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Her most recent works, from a series called "Conversations," are white like her "white figure" works of the early 1970s, but they're more abstract, more animated than other series. Art review: Warashina works show women on the edge of ... you decide 2010-05-27T20:20:00Z

“He was combining the abstract forms of Russian constructivism with New England architecture,” she said. Marcel Breuer House Demolished on Long Island, Angering Preservationists 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Subtly cropped and enormously enlarged, they appear precariously close, atomized into grainy grisaille, and almost abstract in their simplicity. Nahmad Contemporary Shows All Nine Photographs from Richard Prince’s “Fashion” Series 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

“At a time when Black abstract artists in America were ignored and shut out, she embraced us. When we were in the trenches, she jumped in with us.” April Kingsley, Curator Who Championed Unsung Artists, Dies at 82 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

On a warm evening in late November, Ms. Lawson sat in her brightly colored living room, filled with postimpressionist and abstract works, mostly by African and African-American artists. Catching Up With the Matriarch Behind Beyoncé and Solange 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The power of her work is in the language that she uses combining the roots of abstract work but also muralist art with a mix of youth and design.” Seeing Ourselves in Bloom 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

A third issue deserving closer scrutiny is the psychologist’s continued attraction to abstract, semantic concepts that ignore the properties of the agent, the features of the setting, and the source of evidence. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

We live more and more in the world of the abstract – thanks to the internet and the rise of branding, which sells promises of happiness and attractiveness, rather than things themselves. Why the digital era is destined to fail us | Oliver Burkeman 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

In the songs’ lyrics and in the show’s sound-and-image concept, it suggests individual, tight-range communication as a protest against the abstract violence of, say, drone strikes. Review: Anohni’s Declaration Against War 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Islam and the Middle East are often lumped into a single abstract cultural lump. How L.A.'s Islamic art shows might expand our 'Middle East' vision 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

He pushes the board to find examples from underrepresented categories like industrial and abstract films. 'Empire Strikes Back' among 25 film registry picks 2010-12-28T11:31:04Z

Here, at Rockefeller Center, his five giant masks, one more abstract and intense than the next, are similarly raw, both materially and emotionally. Five Massive Masks Take Over Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, Thanks to Artist Thomas Houseago 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

He would eventually renounce much of the abstract art he had championed earlier, returning to a figurative mode informed by Ingres and Poussin. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z

Abstract Expressionism, abstract painting in general and the work of Mondrian in particular are extensively dissed throughout. Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dal? of Constant Ambition 2010-09-02T21:32:00Z

Framed by the subject of incarceration, “suddenly the primordial grids and abstract shapes were transformed into a claustrophobic and locked cell,” Gund wrote in a statement about the show. Stanley Whitney Dances With Matisse 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the other, far more abstracted, such lyricism and literalness has been excised, physically obliterated, along with part of the figure, with strong vertical abstract strokes. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The largest suspended sculpture goes back to nature piled atop the kitchen table — a cluster of abstract shapes that recall a mound of wild mushrooms. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

Philip Guston had become famous for his “abstract impressionist” paintings in quivering pinks and greys. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Muse is a joyous, abstract game where you steer notes through a soundscape, procedurally generating and modifying ambient trance music. Game on for PAX Australia as Penny Arcade Expo hits Melbourne 2013-07-21T23:47:00Z

But their love for humanity seems to apply more in the abstract than it does to the actual people around them. “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

WASSENAAR, the Netherlands — The Dutch chemical company executive and art collector Joop van Caldenborgh was attending a dinner in London in the 1990s when the American abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly approached him. How a Dutch Businessman Fulfilled His Dream to Open a ‘World-Class’ Museum 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Forms blossom like abstracted bouquets from decorated tubes at each corner of the room. In the galleries: A personal look at a maker of monuments 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

In “Advice From the Sun,” an enormous disc hangs like Pharaoh Akhenaten’s abstracted sun god between two gently rolling spheres. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

But the Rimpa version of nature is often highly stylized, posed, poeticized, simultaneously abstracted into ornamental patterns and rendered with fantastically detailed accuracy. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z

“I wear a K” sounds a lot more abstract than, say, “I wear a 10.” Toward a Different Language of Size 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

“I was just taken aback,” Eiseman says of Martin’s work, which used pale color washes in abstract forms. Pantone’s colors of the year have us dreaming in pastels 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

In more recent decades, her art has become abstract and more driven by materials. An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Louis was one of the fathers of the Objectivist movement, which treated poems as abstract objects, pregnant with obscure images and fragmented lines and phrases. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

On long scrolls of paper, Mr. Ruin created intricate cutouts with people, buildings and fences blending into abstract latticework patterns. Review: ‘Prisoner’s Song’ Delves Into Creativity of Confinement 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Among a number of promising small oil paintings is Ryan Browning’s “Hair,” in which a black bowl cut that looks borrowed from a Nancy and Sluggo comic is halfway abstracted into a faux-somber mood study. Summer Art Trek: Gallery Hopping in the Hudson Valley 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Opsvik sings on many tracks, a mix of wordless vocalizations and abstract lyrics. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

You embrace new abstract forms, meant to construct a whole new society. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

So the salient question might not be, “What is a documentary?” — an abstract, theoretical approach to a form that is grounded in the concrete facts of life. Film: Documentaries (in Name Only) of Every Stripe 2010-10-13T18:08:00Z

Granite peaks become abstract forms, their rocky severity eroded by bright hues and collaged bits. Review | In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Discussions of artistic risk can seem abstract or even humblebraggy; compared to soldiers and firefighters, after all, it's tame stuff. In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But in the midst of this concreteness, the thinking grows more abstract. Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art: It Took Tools to Build a Revolution 2010-02-26T23:50:00Z

Three seemingly abstract, multicolored stripe paintings look as if some industrious child had carefully colored in the spaces in paintings by Agnes Martin. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

These works are pure and formalist, but so suggestive that it almost seems inaccurate to call them abstract. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

In one work, spectacular clusters of abstract bananas at the tips of hefty, curling stalks recall toy-like lions' tails. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

A robust figurative painting tradition emerged in the 1980s in West Germany in reaction, some say, to the brooding, abstract work of postwar German artists like Joseph Beuys. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The contents of The Universal Sigh are a bit like Radiohead’s liner notes: abstract, wordy, pretty serious, filled with scratchy artwork, and perhaps hinting at some kind of mystery. ArtsBeat: An Old-Fashioned Promo for Radiohead's New Album 2011-03-29T19:39:17Z

His influence on and by the Minimalist painter Ellsworth Kelly, a close friend, is evident in his abstract work; the two men discovered the Surrealist practice of “automatic drawing” together in Paris in 1949. Enough to Cause Art Lovers to Swoon 2010-11-20T19:38:00Z

It’s a playful and dangerous course, vintage Pete Dye, the abstract expressionist of golf course designers. 18 Holes With Greg Norman: The Shark On Golf, Adventure And How He Became A Folk-Hero In China 2013-06-04T14:00:00Z

It is arranged in largely contrapuntal exchanges between extremes: spare and labor-intensive; little or no color and lots of it; improvisation and deliberation; and riffs on Minimalism and reconsiderations of Expressionism, both abstract and figurative. ‘The Forever Now,’ a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Wright, 38, is an abstract painter based in Austin, Texas. Caroline Wright, Diego Garcia-Olano 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

She often made abstract watercolors and remembers going to a show at a New York gallery in the 1950s for inspiration. At 97, preeminent jewelry designer Betty Cooke is still inspired to create 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

In a new series called “Bruise Paintings,” his motif of the anxious face is now almost completely abstracted, rendered in a frenetic freehand with a palette of blues and repeated across linen in vast grids. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

“It looks abstract, but it is really the physical world,” he says. Growing older without growing up: Graffiti artist Borf 10 years later 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Tapies was one of Spain's main exponents of abstract and avant-garde art in the second half of the 20th century. Spanish painter and sculptor Tapies dead at 88 2012-02-07T10:46:03Z

“I think where it loses me, we’re taking these systems that are applying huge abstract ideas of identity’s role and we’re shrinking it into these interpersonal, one-on-one, liberal arts things,” the upperclassman said. Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Some are more interested in creating fluid, abstract experiences that play on visitors’ desires to flit among a variety of attractions rather than deeply engage with a single idea. Arts: After-Hours Programs at Bay Area Museums: An Uneven Mix 2010-04-17T00:02:00Z

The director Robert Wilson’s update of Monteverdi’s “Coronation of Poppea” moves the action from imperial Rome to an abstract, modern landscape featuring minimalist sets and stoney-faced performers caked in white makeup. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Amy Lin’s obsessive abstract drawings evoke the biological, the chemical, the mechanical and, at times, the purely imaginary. Spring Arts Preview: In the galleries 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Likewise, Warhol's silkscreen printing technique replaced individual imagination with mass-produced pictures of abstract ideas. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

She bursts out laughing, and when she does her features scrunch into a lovely, messy abstract. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z

Adrian Hill, from the Picturecraft Gallery, said the paintings were "impressionist without being abstract" creating "a natural balance to his work". 'Mini-Monet' boosts earnings to £2m 2013-07-20T08:06:59Z

The abstract narrative starts in the reflecting pool with a couple torn apart when the man is taken away by dancers depicting National Guard soldiers. Mark Dendy’s ‘Ritual Cyclical’ Unfolds at Lincoln Center 2013-07-21T21:42:34Z

Stretched and mounted, they appear to be abstract paintings, but their origin and residual leather smell make them wrenchingly organic. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

The earliest had snails for handles; the later ones, glazed with glossy primary colors, suggested abstract Bauhaus architecture. Ken Price, Sculptor Who Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77 2012-02-25T02:28:11Z

"I'm not gonna say. I'm very abstract. Once it becomes narrative, it's all over. Let the audience decide what it's about." At 85, choreographer Rudy Perez is still inspired by the rhythms of everyday life 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Both series are shot through with carefully ruled lines — an abstract architecture that keeps such suggestions at bay. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

You compare dates, subjects and mediums, as well as adjustments in style, from loosely academic to strikingly improvisatory and even abstract. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Jon Batiste’s lovely jazz compositions take turns with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s subtle, cerebral score, building a sonic bridge between the sensual and the abstract, the physical and the metaphysical. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Burch said she got some inspiration from the Memphis design movement from the 1980’s, that focused on postmodern decor featuring abstract and asymmetrical shapes and bright colors. Tory Burch mixes daywear and sportswear for luxury line 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

This is a film that tramples on Fitzgerald's exquisite prose, turning the oblique into the crude, the suggestively symbolic into the declaratively monumental, the abstract into the flatly real. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z

But Winer’s chiseled visage didn’t appear in the abstract video, and “Skin” simply disappeared. Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Dating from 1908, this work is one of the most abstract paintings of its era. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

And sometimes abstract painting seems to stall, its devotees settling for cautiously repeating accepted conventions — monochrome, grids, stripes and so forth. Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The third floor, more troubling, has at its core his recent “Birkenau” quartet, from 2014, whose abstract drags and stutters obscure imagery of the Holocaust, and which have never been shown before in North America. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“Jewels,” often described as the first full-length abstract ballet, yields more rewards if you see it as containing multiple stories, situations and worlds. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

How does his abstract support of the underclass result in the betrayal of a poor servant who has cared so deeply for him? Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee

There's a fairytale quality to Amy Bullock's surreal abstracts, where iridescent colours suggest the wings of butterflies or rippling water. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z

The structure was designed to showcase the crème of early European modernism: modest, abstract easel paintings. Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Conversation — and question asking — allows young children to grasp highly abstract concepts, from religion to history, at an earlier age. ?Why won?t you answer me?? 2012-05-20T18:00:00Z

Around that time, Mr. Richter began producing what remains to this day the most extraordinary succession of abstract pictures in Western art. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z

She was also broadly prolific — Cunningham’s oeuvre includes portraits, figure studies, arts scenes, landscapes, abstracts and street shots. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

I pick out a painting at random from the catalogue, an abstract landscape in shiny pink, blue and brown that could, at a push, be a face. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

Her painted figures, some in watercolor mixed with kolanut ink and wine, are by now almost abstract, fetus-shaped or exaggeratedly attenuated. Art in Review: Marcia Kure: ‘Tease’ 2013-06-13T20:51:46Z

Attention to that duality is how an artist could breathe the living magic of space into the flat, inert surface of an abstract canvas. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Known for his vivid, abstract video accompaniment, Flying Lotus live strives to physically manifest the sensation of being lost in his music. Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

When it's presented in the media it's very easy to abstract yourself and fictionalize the event. The Good King Joffrey 2013-11-08T08:23:00Z

And if not washed up, it had to be abstract — the more austere, unemotional and geometric, the better. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Turrell’s work, like his larger light installations, involves color represented in ethereal, geometrically abstract form; its two curved triangles appear to merge with each other and the space around them. Art Review: Holography in ‘Pictures From the Moon’ at New Museum 2012-08-24T05:10:05Z

There remain the magnified images, at once abstract and ultrarealistic, that first infatuated the artist. Review | Looking back at a Bauhaus artist who tried to bridge the gap between science and art 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Like his colleague and exact coeval David Smith, Ferber explored Surrealism’s anxiety-provoked hybrid anatomical forms in his early abstract works. Abstract Expressionism’s Forgotten Sculptor 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

He created abstract paintings and colorful collages made of sheet music, stamps, and tobacco labels, among other items. Missing for Four Decades, a Stolen Motherwell Painting Turns Up 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

At one point he played an entire abstract unaccompanied solo, making a cloud of huge, sculptured resonance. Music Review: Destroyer Performs at Brooklyn Masonic Temple 2012-06-19T22:01:41Z

Hitchcock's connection to the material—evident in his arched nasal delivery and closed-eyes focus—underlined its abstract innocence and experimental promise. Looking at, listening to 1967's London scene 2011-03-20T12:45:00Z

A pair of essays in the 1990s — "Yes, But Is It Art?" — examined the relative merits of representational and abstract art. Morley Safer Has Died 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Other ink drawings are entirely abstract, made up cursive forms that, like characters from an imagery alphabet, spin and tumble across a page. Review: African Art in a Game of Catch-Up 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Despite the memory lapse, Gabriel evinces a suspicious eloquence and flair for abstract thought. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z

So I’m not a fan of abstracting this to the level of: Well, if you do this to the president, then anyone else may fall victim. ‘Disinformation can be a very lucrative business, especially if you’re good at it,’ media scholar says 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

“He brings an energy and also something abstract.” At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z

Each year, the foundation’s advisory board sorts through as many as 130 submissions that are loosely tethered to abstract ideas it mandates, like “money,” “dreams and hopes,” “crisis and opportunity.” CNEX, a Nonprofit, Helps Filmmakers Document China 2013-08-20T21:47:30Z

These works are abstract, though as Bove observed, “the first one I did is not that good at not being a figure. It looks like ‘The Thinker.’” Carol Bove’s Light-Touch Heavy Metal Faces Down the Met 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

I was still thinking of myself as just a visitor, or rather neither here nor there, someone undertaking an abstract inquiry, but not yet with true intention. Sex in Silicon Valley: are millennials better at free love? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Talking to kids about where their clothes came from can make something abstract—life in other countries—more concrete. A Different Way of Talking to Kids about What They're Wearing 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg, who was then an up-and-coming American artist, plucked up the courage to ask Willem de Kooning, an established abstract expressionist, for one of his drawings. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

He suggests, for example, that children may have an easier time learning abstract topics in mathematics or physics if they are put into a group and allowed to reason through a problem together. Reasoning, Scholars Say, Evolved Just as a Means to Win 2011-06-14T11:55:00Z

Not far from de Staël’s “Sky,” an untitled abstract oil on board by Gerhard Richter likewise conjures the image of a landscape remembered from a dream. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

So it does have these abstract art elements to it that I think really set it apart from anything I've ever seen before. "Blindspotting" is a "truly American story" about living in a country addicted to imprisoning people 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z

“This distinction has been interpreted to mean that desire is a relatively concrete representation of sensory experiences, while love is a more abstract representation of those experiences,” she said in February. Is That a Look of Love, or Lust? Science Has the Answer 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kelly, a painter renowned for his bold, colorful abstract work, and Ms. Martin lived in the same building as Ms. Wilson. Ann Wilson, Last Survivor of an Influential Art Scene, Dies at 91 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Man Running,” Correll’s most daring piece, pushes the abstract potential of the title’s fleeing figure to its outer limits. Edmonds museum exhibit shows how artists responded to hard times 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

Here, Leon could not be clearer, and as Nipsey Hussle’s “Perfect Timing” brings us into the present, that abstract barracks begins to look a lot like a jail, or a morgue. Review: In ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ an Endless War Against Black Men 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

The sinuous form of the abstract “Herding One Desert” is topped with strands of iron rope. Review | In the galleries: Artists create a multi-work homage to a teacher and a comrade 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

The key to addressing climate change won't be some abstract injunction to save the planet; it will be about acknowledging interdependence and commonality and accepting responsibility. The lessons "Moby Dick" has for a warming world of rising waters 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

“The original is beautifully abstract and moody, but American audiences demand some sort of resolution or straight path,” Verbinski said in an interview. ‘The Ring’ at 20: Millennial Horror That’s Still Infecting Movies Today 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Pausing frequently for effect, he spoke about constructing fables, discerning between the abstract and the concrete, and “kicking the tires of aphoristic writing.” My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

I’d learned on previous trips that schedules, assurances and even time itself were abstract concepts in the Bahamas, so I walked the docks anyway, asking if any boats were leaving — for anywhere. Off the Tourist Grid in the Bahamas 2013-01-30T22:27:14Z

In the abstract, the band are pretty much despicable, and Heller doesn't flinch from displaying their most unsavoury details. The self-publishing travails of Ted Heller 2013-07-24T12:08:35Z

But muttering "yes, yes" to himself, the saxophonist soon uncorked a typical torrent of bluesy runs and soulful cries, and became looser still on an almost abstract coda to his 1980s original Time Will Tell. Bobby Watson/GMF festival – review 2013-04-01T15:57:27Z

But Ms. De Keersmaeker keeps the tone abstract, letting the duets — passionate, tender, violent, confrontational — suggest ambiguous emotions and resolutions. A Triumphant De Keersmaeker Takes Paris Opera by Storm 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, the vote becomes a referendum on freedom, a mostly abstract concept, and the security of a steady paycheck. Review: In Stefano Massini’s ‘7 Minutes,’ It’s Make or Break 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Sometimes he's evoking the abstract universals of space and time. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

It helps to section off time to get away from “the keyboard reality”, as he calls it, where the buffer of a laptop screen allows for too much “hatred in the abstract”. Tim Robbins: 'With the exception of America’s native tribes, we're all new here' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The spectators decided the metaphoric image that sat in the third stanza meant to describe the abstract idea was the agent of my poem. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Her abstract paintings of wild seascapes scatter the shelves with quotes scrawled on the back: “Even Heroes Rust and Break.” Meet Kristin Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL running for Congress 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

The photograph is like an abstract illustration and detail of development, with power lines perhaps serving as metaphors for people and policies. A Small Brazilian Photo Club That Reached for the Skyline 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

He visited the studio of the abstract sculptor Constantin Brancusi, whose simplification of natural shapes remained one of Mr. Kelly’s formal ideals. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

An abstract glade of curved, multicolor “branches” arc across and around the stage. ‘Amaluna’ embraces Cirque’s over-the-top reputation, with soaring results

On film, the children speculate that “the foreigners brought this balloon,” while, in the audience, moviegoers consider the chasm in Kabul between the granular and the abstract. James Longley’s “Angels Are Made of Light” Captures the Daily Despair of Ordinary Afghans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The California desert harbored the “abstract beauty of the inner vision, which would be kindled by the inspiration of these rare and solitary places,” Pelton wrote in 1932, while applying for a Guggenheim grant. ‘Agnes of the Desert’ Joins Modernism’s Pantheon 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The writer-director Kent Jones skillfully portrays Diane’s gradual awakening to her burnout and inability to forgive herself for past mistakes through journal entries and some dream sequences that look like abstract acid trips. The Year Women Over 50 Reclaimed Their Right to Be Seen 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The work it shows may be loose or precise, abstract or figurative, but it’s always handsome and unapologetically decorative. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The Second World War had irrevocably changed the American art world, fomenting the form-meets-function of modern design and the abstract expressionism of painters like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. At 97, preeminent jewelry designer Betty Cooke is still inspired to create 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Above Mr. Deitch’s bed hangs an abstract Aaron Young painting that, when stared at, produces an after-image of Christ; in a nearby hall is a preparatory sketch for Warhol’s painting “Before and After.” A Risk-Taker?s Debut 2011-04-22T22:34:11Z

Reagan, Spitz writes, “was not a man given to abstract thought.” A New Biography of Ronald Reagan Captures His Passion for Stardom 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

The West in McCarthy’s novel is abstracted, too, in the way it amplifies the atrocities of scalp-hunters who trolled the United States-Mexico border in the mid-1800s, but the comparison ends there. ‘Westworld,’ Season 1, Episode 5: The Search for Meaning 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Prerecorded footage of singers and extras, and sometimes abstract evocations of the opera’s many locations, mix with live filming. A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Yes, there was a khaki-green parachute silk jumpsuit that was very much on trend and an abstract eagle woven into a sweater seemed fresh. Special Report: The Delicate Pas De Deux 2010-09-24T18:01:00Z

“Like momentary tastes, samples of what happens in our important relationships. Those interpersonal flickers are actual two-way human connection — not some one-way media abstract.” The horrors of terrorism makes travel an imperative not a luxury 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

There are four of them: abstract compositions of torqued and sandblasted steel, each around 11 feet tall, affixed with burnished discs of aluminum and placed on either side of the Met’s sweeping staircase. Carol Bove’s Light-Touch Heavy Metal Faces Down the Met 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

For Kehlani, the path to healing isn’t a straightforward journey with a beginning, middle and end, where life can finally begin after reaching some abstract, enlightened state. Kehlani’s Journey of Healing 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

He designed two celebrated chairs, the Cesca and the Wassily — both were framed in chromed tubular steel and succinctly captured the Bauhaus synthesis of abstract geometries and industrial techniques. Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

“We think Tate’s inability and unwillingness to actually DO anything about the mural, beyond vague abstract pondering, is a sad, sad indictment,” they said. Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

That talent was clear to see in the original plan, with its formal nods both to the tar pits and to abstract modernism. LACMA redesign avoids tar pits, creates challenges 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

His sculpture, reduced to its most essential elements, attained an almost unprecedented purity of abstract form. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

But there is already something meaningful preserved in hues that stretch from creamy corn-silk yellow to screaming candy-apple scarlet: a wildly colorful — abstract, and at times contradictory — portrait of a land in chaos. The Unmitigated Chaos of America’s Attempt at Color-Coded Covid Guidance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z