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 ...

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Penumbra inventively matches a representational, even quasi-photographic realist painter with an abstract painter. Will they have anything to say to each other, you might wonder. Often there’s a ...

Abstract, immaterial, non-representational, conceptual, conjectural. These are all words you might use to discuss abstract art. I would add mysterious. There’s a gallery in Manchester, the brainchild ...

Next year will see Europe’s leading art spaces continue to celebrate new figurative art. Here's who you need to know about. Buffeted by the arrival of abstract art in the 20th century and threatened ...