Is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen getting tired of his abstract art collection? Bloomberg reports that the tech billionaire just unloaded at auction a Mark Rothko painting — “Untitled (Red, Blue, ...

As much as art dealers love to disagree with one another about sales strategies, one idea that has long attracted almost universal consensus is this: no colors on the spectrum magnetize more money to ...

Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

NEW YORK - In 2007, John Logan was in London working on the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd’’ when he stumbled into the Tate Modern and had a heart-stopping encounter with a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As any Valentine knows, the colour red signifies love and passion, but it can also convey connotations of lust, ...

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 ...