Venture deep into the hinterlands of modern art history, and you come across the artistic movement of the 1880s and 1890s known as Symbolism. An international, diffuse, idealist, and mystical reaction ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An ...

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Gertrude Stein held vibrant salons in Paris. Diego Rivera traveled from Mexico City to Moscow to paint murals. Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, whose families had moved north as part of the Great ...

Impressionism is one of the most beloved art movements not only in Korea but around the world. The bright and colorful hues, ...

While some of the greatest artworks had been looted by the Nazis and were recovered after the war, thousands are missing to this day. Rome, 1944. German soldiers stand outside of the Palazzo Venezia ...

Why go to a modern art museum? They’re expensive, stuffy and the art is often remote or, worse, something a toddler could make. Those are the typical lamentations, anyway. More contemporary grievances ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

In a landmark convergence of pop culture and high art, Hot Wheels has announced a global, multi-year partnership with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The collaboration, initiated by Mattel Creations, ...

Phillips Collection Names a Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art was originally published on City Desk on Jan. 27, 2009, at 4:11 pm In our December arts issue, Jeffry Cudlin observed that while the ...

In our December arts issue, Jeffry Cudlin observed that while the Phillips Collection scored a win in ’07 by hiring Dorothy Kosinski as director, it still hadn’t managed to find a senior curator for ...