LINCOLN — The acceptance of abstraction in painting was a hard-won battle, so much so that once it was won, representation became for a time peripheral in contemporary art. One of the forces driving ...

Renowned portrait photographer Nigel Parry presents abstract, Rothko-inspired landscape film photography at the City Gallery Credit: "Colonial Lake" by Nigel Parry But he’s showing another side of his ...

In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...

Broadly speaking, the Venn diagram of contemporary art as it applies to painting, sculpture and installation has three circles: representational, abstract and conceptual. This week, I’m looking at ...