Fifty years ago, on July 16, 1973, the director of the yet-to-open National Gallery of Australia, James Mollison, spent $1.3 million of taxpayers’ money to acquire Blue poles, by abstract ...

Ben Heller, an influential New York art collector and dealer best known for his early embrace of Abstract Expressionism and the sale of one of its masterworks to an Australian museum, which caused an ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...