Abstract art is a genre that can often be difficult to get to grips with, but the Whitechapel gallery has made a brave move dedicating a major exhibition to the history of abstract art over the last ...

Can a century of abstract art from around the world be squeezed into one show? Adrian Searle gets a poke in the eye trying to find out at Adventures of the Black Square How fragile Kazimir Malevich’s ...

This huge survey of abstract art from Malevich onwards is big on revolutionary ways of thinking rather than ways of seeing Malevich’s Black Quadrilateral hangs on the wall, surprisingly fragile and ...

"People often think abstract art is easy - it is not. It relies on your innate creativity which is often buried deep inside ...

Herriot said he produced all of the art currently in his studio between June and October. Credit: MONA MAHADEVAN PHOTO Herriot’s studio, filled with colorful, abstract art of various sizes. Herriot ...

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So far so good. Or maybe not. Perhaps the time frame hints at the problem: the way it jumps, without pause, from those modernist isms with their big ideas and proceeds to chuck everything but the ...

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015 showcases the development of abstraction, split into four sub-sections and displayed in chronological order.

The Black Square in this show's title is the one painted by Kazimir Malevich in 1915. A version of that seminal painting greets you as you enter the Whitechapel — it's actually a quadrilateral rather ...