Software that translates a high-level request into the low-level commands required to perform the operation. The most common abstraction layer is the programming interface (API) between an application ...

It’s rare for me to be surprised by a painting show, but I didn’t see “Taking Shape” coming. The exhibition is a generous survey of abstract art made from the 1950s to the 1980s, drawn from the ...

The amount of complexity by which a system is viewed or programmed. The higher the level, the less detail. The lower the level, the more detail. The highest level of abstraction is the entire system.

Motherwell, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Stanford, studied painting and art history at Harvard and Columbia, was a prolific writer, public speaker and multimedia artist, and could ...

It’s tempting to condescend to the three characters in Yasmina Reza’s play “Art” whose 15-year friendship almost comes undone when one of them buys an all-white abstract painting. After all, ...

Warwick Academy students recently visited the Bermuda National Gallery’s “Simplicity of Form: Unfolding Abstraction” exhibit which helps to bring abstract art to life. The students took part in a tour ...

Carmen Neely, "Sometimes a painting is a prayer," installation view Credit: Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Carmen Neely’s large-scale abstract paintings fill Mariane Ibrahim gallery with energy—feminine, ...