Stand in front of a Rothko and a Lucian Freud portrait. Feel the difference? Your brain does too. And not in the way you might think. For decades,...

Robyn Rich paints eyes. Miniature eyes in oils, nestled into antique spoons, vintage tins, and forgotten vessels. Each eye, no larger than a coin,...

You stand before a canvas. No recognizable image. No narrative. Just color and form. And you feel something. This doesn't make sense. How can you...

Most people think of prints as copies. Cheaper versions of paintings. Mass-produced reproductions. In the early twentieth century, this was true....

When you stand before a nine-foot canvas, consider what the artist experienced while creating it. Not conceptually. Physically. Large-scale abstract...

For most of the 20th century, abstraction treated material as neutral. The canvas was a surface. The paint was a vehicle for color and form. What...

Yellow arrives slowly in art history. While earth yellows like ochre have existed for millennia, reliable synthetic yellows emerged gradually....

When many people think about collecting art, the first image that comes to mind is often that of wealthy patrons hanging rare paintings in grand...

For years, I've been that person—the one mixing my grandmother's mahogany side table with a sleek West Elm sofa, hanging vintage oil paintings above...