The Soviets in 1918 wasted little time expropriating the treasures of Shchukin and other wealthy collectors, pooled them to form Moscow’s famed Museum of Modern Western Art.

No book on modern French painting can claim authority without mentioning at least a dozen works in Moscow’s Museum of Western Art. Of Picasso alone, it boasts over 50 pictures.

The visual opulence and symbolic richness of Byzantine art left a lasting legacy on Western art, which would later resurface in various forms, including the works of Gustav Klimt.

Dr. JoAnna Reyes, the new curator at the Phoenix Art Museum, aims to broaden the scope of storytelling and redefine the social constructs of the West.

Yet powerful indigenous art traditions have also been used to assert the presence of native peoples and their prior claim to sovereignty. Cultural exchange proves to be a two-way process, and an ...

This seems to be true not only in traditional sculptures, but also in much modern work, several examples of which Ugbabe describes. By contrast, Western art over the last several centuries has become ...

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Felix Kwok—head of the Sotheby's Modern Art department in Asia—plays a critical role in the strategic growth of the auction house in this vital art hub and the ...