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 ...

This week in art news: a new report suggested that Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections sold off Nazi loot after World War II, satellite imagery confirmed that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Nabu in ...

"Published in hardcover in the USA as Art in the modern era : a guide to styles, schools and movements"--T.p. verso. 1860-1900 : rise of the Avant-Gardes -- Impressionism -- Arts and crafts -- Chicago ...

With some key examples, according to four curators and three historians. By Julia Halperin One of the longest-running movements in art history, it combined poetry and painting into a single image.

Dance and performance have always been essential components of the world of art. Dance is a primordial form of expression that has existed conterminously with fine art practices around the world.

Grace Crowley, Les baigneuses (The bathers), 1928, oil on canvas on hardboard, 45.2 × 64.2 cm. National Gallery of Australia, gift of the artist 1979 © Reproduced ...

Educators are increasingly using contemporary and integrated arts strategies to deepen student learning across subjects. By centering lessons on big ideas rather than just techniques, teachers can ...

In the close confines of an intimate gallery space at the Museum of Fine Arts, two titans of 20th-century art engage in an imagined pas-de-deux: Mark Rothko, the American Abstract Expressionist master ...

Last semester, I visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now my favorite art museum — for the first time. Built by Gardner and her husband to display their vast art collection in a dignified and ...

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 ...

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed details of the forthcoming renovation and expansion of its modern ...