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 ...

Antonio Berni “New Chicago Athletic Club (Club Atlético Nueva Chicago)” (1937), oil on canvas, 6 feet 3/4 inches × 9 feet 10 1/4 inches, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Inter-American Fund, 1942 ...

Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path.

Shakir Hassan Al Said, 'Letters,' 1961. Oil, gesso, cotton, linen canvas, 94.2 cm x 82 cm x 2.5 cm. At first glance, it would be difficult to discern this artwork as coming from Arab origins, and not ...

Long seen as the poor relation of the international art world, modern African art has undergone a massive surge in prestige and commercial interest over the past two decades. The realisation that ...

The best U.S. modern architecture of the past dozen years—that is the material of a book on sale last week at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art. Built in U.S.A.—1932-1944 ($3) reviews handsomely in ...

Once hailed as Spain’s greatest woman artist of the 20th century, Maruja Mallo’s impressive career has been overlooked in recent decades—but that’s starting to change. A bold new touring retrospective ...

The In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s exhibition running until October 13 at London’s Royal Academy contains wonderful avant-garde art works from the early twentieth century.

Mike Wolanin | The Republic Guests look at an abstract painting by artist Lloyd Brooks fothe Saarinen alpahbet reception for an exhibit by Brooks and author Skip Berry at the Columbus Area Visitors ...

Cover of Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns featuring Agnes Pelton's "Sand Storm" (1929) (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) Religion influenced modern art's development far more than most ...

The name Howard Smith likely doesn't ring a bell for most Americans, but in Scandinavian countries, the Black American artist was revered — and remains part of the cultural conversation several years ...