"Perhaps if I hadn't had to fight, I would have quit," the artist Joan Mitchell once said. "I don't know. I doubt it, though." Mitchell's work may have been born out of struggle, but there is no ...

In recent years, abstract and impressionist art has continued to grow and change, with artists using new ideas and techniques to express deep emotions, spirituality, and the mysteries of life.

For more than 50 years, astronauts have been venturing into outer space and making seemingly impossible journeys a reality. If TV and film are any indication, the average person’s idea of an astronaut ...