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 ...

Installation view of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015). Photo ...

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 ...

MoMa's exhibition "Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern" is based on the art collection of the museum's enigmatic cofounder. Her efforts and collection have forged the ongoing narrative of ...

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 ...

An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...

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

A 12-panel folding screen titled *Phoenix and Peacock* of overwhelming scale fills an entire wall. Measuring 713 cm in width ...

During the month of June in 1938, a number of historically significant events took place. The Great Depression’s final devastating wave of economic recession bottomed out, after yet another grueling ...

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.

In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” paintings, and ...