THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

The question is, finally: how could there be an effective political art? Is not the whole thing a chimaera, a dream, incompatible with the basic conditions of artistic production in the nineteenth ...

At the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, artist Rashid Johnson presents A Poem for Deep Thinkers, a collection of three decades of work through paintings, sculpture and immersive installations.

It is very uncommon for Mondrian’s artworks from his mature period in the 1920 and 1930s to go up for auction. They are usually housed in museum collections, given their significance to the ...

There will be a time when the work of women artists has become so pervasive among museum collections that special exhibitions calling attention to their achievements are no longer necessary to balance ...

The painting is as dazzling as it is unsettling, not only by virtue of its monumental size (8' 2 1/2" x 11' 5 7/8") but also its boisterous colors and panoramic view of figures in motion. As your gaze ...

A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt became the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction, fetching $236 million at Sotheby's on November 18. The painting, made at some point ...

Francisco Goitia, “Zacatecas Landscape with Hanged Men I” (c. 1914) (courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art) Ironically, several artists who created celebrated images of the Mexican Revolution did ...

Brown likely could have gone on painting commercially successful works in the same vein (one graced the cover of the influential Artforum magazine in 1963). Despite the monthly stipend at stake she ...

Renaissance is a term used to identify the period of the History of Europe approximately between the end of the XIV century ...

The city has long been synonymous with southwestern art, but a growing constellation of contemporary galleries and artist-run ...