TUCSON, Ariz. — The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson isn't letting visitors in right now, but you can see the latest piece of artwork without having to step inside. It's called 'Action Painting ...

Bypassing the endless figuration-versus-abstraction debate, a trend in blurred painting techniques has emerged. In these works, artists make borders hard to define and render figures as moving, fluid, ...

Take “ Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s,” for example, which opened at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on Friday.

In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni took conceptual art to its most extreme conclusion. He literally canned his own excrement and sold it as artwork. Each of the 90 small tin cans was labeled ...

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. “What Is Painting ...

The curators of Now! Young Painting in Germany have to ask themselves how a survey of German contemporary painting justifies a disproportionate representation of certain art academies.

6 Female Artists Who Turned Modern Art On Its Head These often overlooked women helped shape modern art around the world.

Sotheby's May contemporary art sale set 14 artist records, including a massive new high for Kerry James Marshall.

I giggled like a giddy seventh grader with a boyfriend on Valentine's Day when I heard Hermann Nitsch, the forerunner of the Viennese Actionism movement, was showing in New York. Since his ...