Procedural abstraction is the process of converting a specific procedure into a general procedure by ignoring certain details. This is used during the design process to allow the programmer to focus on the structure of the program instead of the detail...

In computer science, abstraction is a mechanism and practice to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on a few concepts at a time. The following English definition of abstraction helps to understand how this term applies to Computer...

The Geometry of Hope: Latin Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, an exhibition at N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Gallery, poses two interesting questions: What characteristics identify art as provincial? And what does hope have to do with making art? Organized by the Blanton...

The refrain of “I Like ’Em Big and Stupid,” singer and comedienne Julie Brown’s little-remembered 80’s-era pop exegesis on female desire, came to mind while I was looking at Jonathan Lasker’s paintings at Cheim and Read Gallery. Mr. Lasker’s work is big and stupid—obvious and...

Open-form, welded-metal sculpture is now so familiar to the art public that it's sometimes forgotten how radical and controversial it was among traditionalists when it made its debut in the 1950's as "The New Sculpture." For as long as anyone could then remember, the art...

The American painter Megan Olson (born 1971) calls the current exhibition of her paintings Still Movement, which I take to be an allusion to still life-an impression that's amply confirmed in pictures that depict the dynamic processes of nature with a precision, stability and concreteness...