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 arts leader and patron Agnes Gund left a void after her death. Some of her most cherished works, including a rarely seen ...

It has become fashionable to say that painters are returning to realism. Such talk is almost always accompanied by skeptical remarks about difficult or obscure art and observations on the bankruptcy ...

Marlon Mullen’s show at the Museum of Modern Art, the first by a developmentally disabled artist, speaks volumes. The artist Marlon Mullen goes through a meticulous process of preparing before ...

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 ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Standing inside the Montana Historical Society’s changing gallery, it’s easy to admire the pieces of art, but determining ...

A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece of modern art to ever be sold at auction. The Vienna-born artist came to ...

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 ...

Today, the Tate Modern unveiled a spectacular painting by American artist Joan Mitchell, one of a group of works donated by Miami’s Pérez family. Joan Mitchell’s vast six-metre-long triptych, entitled ...

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 ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...