Rarely-seen work by Basil Beattie, one of Britain's most respected abstract artists, has gone on public display at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, East Sussex. Image caption, The 78-year-old is ...

Susie Davis and Emma Sherry are holding an exhibition at the Gateway Gallery in Shrewsbury Shropshire artists Emma Sherry and Susie Davis both enjoy the unpredictability and freedom of abstract ...

Was Hilma af Klint Europe’s first abstract artist – before even Kandinsky and Mondrian? As an exhibition of her extraordinary, occult-inspired works opens at the Serpentine Gallery, London, we travel ...

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A Russian IT entrepreneur plans to open a museum of Russian abstract art in Moscow later this year and has set up a foundation that will spend $4.5m to promote the work abroad, including in China and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. By the 1970s, Andy Warhol was known as much as a professional partier as he was as an artist. He schmoozed with ...

Af Klint’s absence from the art historical canon will bring her the distinction of being the earliest-born artist honoured with a show at London’s Serpentine Gallery (Albin Dahlstrˆm) Get the latest ...

Michelle Colson's abstract works give the impression that the paint is still moving and you might look away and find that the forms have changed. "Fluid but fixed" is how she describes her work and ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...