New exhibitions opening this month at the San Diego Museum of Art celebrate two often overlooked groups of artists: black photographers of the civil rights era and the women of abstract impressionism.

The parallels are uncanny: two abstract impressionist painters who lived more or less during the same time, whose work developed along similar lines, both with strong ties to Colorado. One was Vance ...

I have always marveled at the way in which Abstract Expressionism was able to transform a disparate group of painters, none of whom had shown any particular promise of artistic greatness, into fi By ...

You don’t have to venture far into the de Young Museum exhibit of British artist J.M.W. Turner’s works to see what Victorian rivals and critics found “wrong” about his paintings. In “Regulus,” the ...

It's been a good week for brainy, idiosyncratic concerts in Washington. On Saturday, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard made the disparate works of Berg, Liszt, Debussy and Ligeti seem part of the same ...

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An abstract painting of a woman hangs in the downstairs section of the Red Room Lounge (2736 Virginia), currently River Oaks's trendiest nightspot. This seems wildly appropriate. Abstractionism sounds ...