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 ...

A Sotheby's sale of modern art in New York totaled a within-estimate $303.9 million, led by Matisse and Picasso.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There will be a time when the work of women artists has become so pervasive among museum collections that special exhibitions calling attention to their achievements are no longer necessary to balance ...

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 ...

Looking back at the past 60 years in art, one might rightfully believe that we're living in a golden age of figurative painting - especially women painting women. The magnificent "Women Painting Women ...

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.

Here are 11 highlights from the second edition of the contemporary art fair as well as some ongoing art exhibitions in ...

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 ...

Having trained under the guidance of Shen Shijia, a legend in the field, Yu has dedicated his life to perfecting the art of Chinese landscape painting. Opinions expressed by Digital Journal ...