Renowned modernist artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr came to New York City for its arts scene. But they found their home — and their inspiration — on Long Island. The couple first settled on the ...

The American abstract artist Arthur Dove once asked, rhetorically, “Have you ever tried to think how music over the radio would look?” “Me and the Moon,” the heart-stoppingly beautiful painting in the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In a more perfect world, to be sure, it might have been expected that one of our museums would mount a full-scale ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

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 ...