Today is August 26, Peggy Guggenheim’s birthday. The pioneering American art collector was born on this day in 1898, her legacy will never be forgotten as a modern art collector and feminist ...

Happy birthday, abstract painting! One of the prides and joys of Western modernism is in the vicinity of its first centennial. It’s hard to be much more exact, since its invention was a ...

Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s 148th birthday has been celebrated in a Google Doodle illustration today that reflects his own distinct abstract style.