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 ...

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 DAILY PIC (#1577): If there’s one strand in the early history of modern art that’s been more neglected than others, it’s the one that involved folk and outsider art. Almost all the great modern ...

New York City’s Armory Show of 1913 was the first major exhibition of modernist art on American soil, and the city has been associated with modernism ever since. Today, perhaps only Paris rivals New ...

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 ...

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 ...

Installation view of the collection galleries at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, including Marcos Grigorian’s painting on the right. (photo by Robert Gerhardt, all images courtesy Museum of Modern ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Can a museum devoted to modernism survive the death of the movement? Can it ...

TOKYO -- In recent decades, Japanese modern and contemporary art have become well established within the broader historical narrative of modernism's evolution from the latter 1800s through the late ...

Nothing has been more remarkable in the cultural life of the past decade than the speed with which the imperatives of the modern movement have been stripped of their authority. Twenty years ago it was ...