modern art

AAmerican cowboy James Abbott McNeill Whistler and his fiery-haired Irish lover Joanna Hiffernan go on a rampage and destroy the art world of Victorian Britain in this immensely enjoyable art and biographical game. It's a story so well…

PRAGUE - The Kunsthalle Praha, which opened on Tuesday in the former Zenger power substation, is not the first exhibition space in a former power station. Yet from the start, this privately funded redevelopment opposite Prague Castle puts…

De Wain Valentine, a sculptor affiliated with the Light and Space movement commonly considered one of the first artists to enlist plastic as an artistic material, has died. A representative of the Valentine gallery, Almine Rech, said…

As soon as I stepped into the Museum of Modern Art's chronological retrospective “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction”, I felt delighted, like a kid again. I was captivated by the expressive movement, the pure geometric shapes and the…

Robert Cumming, an artist known for his conceptual photographs which were instrumental in a major transformation of camera work in the 1970s and early 1980s, died December 16 in Desert Hot Springs, Calif. . He was 78 years old.According to…

In the contemporary art world, the ability to survive - and even thrive - largely depends on freedom of expression and a certain level of permissiveness if not support from official channels. But in countries like Hungary,…

Penélope Cruz started acting when she was a child and played with her friends. “I would pretend to be someone else. A different character. Sometimes from a movie I saw, sometimes from my own imagination. Cruz said Tuesday night when…

What would Emily Carr think? The Canadian icon whose First Nations coastal art paintings and Pacific forest landscapes put Victoria on the world art map was born in Victoria 150 years ago. In recent years, the two subjects she…

Photojournalists in the fieldI'll end on a positive note though, with a tribute to some of the great, and often unrewarded, image-makers of 2021: the photojournalists, professional and otherwise, on the pitch everywhere this year - those…

Work of the Syrian artist Mamdouh Kashlan. Muhammad Yusuf, Feature Writer Founded in 2016, the Atassi Foundation for Arts and Culture is a non-profit…

Neapolitan crib (18th century); Colnaghi, London, during London Art Week Winter, December 3-10; price: seven-digit sumNow it's time for something a little festive: this huge 18th-century Neapolitan nativity scene (or presepe, in Italian)…

MIAMI - Bob Dylan has been telling stories through song for 60 years. But recently, the American lyricist also captured moments in a new series of paintings which, like his songs, are intimate and a bit of a mystery.The Nobel Laureate's…

My name is maryanUntil March 20, 2022 at the Museum of Contemporary Art North MiamiPolish-born Jewish artist Maryan was a child when he arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp and left Auschwitz in 1945 as the only survivor of his…

Photographer Imogen Cunningham was born in 1883; the same year, a car first crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, the deadly Krakatoa volcano exploded over the Sunda Strait and a train, later immortalized in the "Murder on the Orient Express"…

"TSOUND BIG and solitary artist ”, writes JP Hodin of Edvard Munch,“ was appreciated… only by a handful of initiates in the West. It has remained virtually unknown to Americans as well as the English and French. Distinguished art…

Bob Thompson, "Garden of Music", 1960. Oil on canvas. 79 1/2 × 143 in. (201.9 × 363.2 cm). Wadsworth Atheneum Art Museum, Hartford, Connecticut. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection fonds. © Michael Rosenfeld…

Balinese Masters: Aesthetic Trajectories of Balinese Visual Art DNA, an ongoing presentation in Bali of installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings…

Christie's Auction House will host a Jakarta preview of its Fall 2018 Hong Kong Auctions, which are scheduled for November 23-28 at the Hong Kong…

“Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France” may sound like the title of a big art history textbook, but it's actually a rather intimate exhibition. Yes, intimate despite the fact that this stylistic investigation takes…