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 ...

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 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 ...

Why it mattered: The combination of canvas, oil paint and perspective enabled European artists to “create the most realistic ...

With some key examples, according to four curators and three historians.

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.

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

Do you miss LACMA? I do. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched more than 60 years ago as an encyclopedic place to collect and explore global art history from the last 3,000 years. Now, history ...

The central collection at the heart of the “Modern Legacy” reflects the singular taste and journey of a single collector over many years. Meticulously built and passed down, it is a testament to art’s ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a record-setting $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building. The painting of a well-dressed woman now ranks ...

(CNN) — What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a ...

Designed as both a museum and a civic space, the new Virginia MOCA invites the public into contemporary art in a way that ...