FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

Tate Modern in London has unveiled an extensive exhibition celebrating the parallel evolution of photography and abstract art, voiced through more than 350 sculptures, paintings, installations and ...

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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of one of America’s best-known abstract expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell. The museum has more ...

Earlier this year, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85” at the Brooklyn Museum dropped like a bomb. Mining a seam of engaged, truth-telling art by black women from the Civil Rights ...

When an art museum reinstalls its permanent collection of paintings, sculptures and works on paper, perspectives can be freshened, recent scholarship given a platform and surprises unwrapped. Last ...

Following is a transcript of the video: Narrator: Modern art is expensive. From completely white canvases to simple, abstract colors, these seemingly basic works can cost you millions. So what makes ...

LIKE all good jokes tHe drawing from Punch above on the page has its serious and even tragic side. For it would miss its point if we took it to be a crack at the expense of Dolan the artist or his ...

The artier, more abstract style of Matthew Sweet‘s 13th studio album, Modern Art, was influenced in part by the singer’s sideline gig selling his own hand-made ceramics on Etsy. “In the making of ...

Achuthan Kudallur was endearingly grouchy on the phone. He called intermittently and hung up abruptly, forgoing superfluous niceties for disarmingly honest conversations on family, art and life. Not ...