To mark America's Semiquincentennial, TIME asked 25 experts to share a work of art or design that captures the essence of ...

Next month, 28 contemporary American artists will infiltrate the homes of the two artists who are the "physical cornerstone of American art," as co-curator Stephen Hannock puts it. “It was always kind ...

© Estate of Chuck Ramirez, courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio and New York The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is adding to its collection. The Fort Worth ...

A visitor to the Menil Collection, in Houston, Texas, studies artist Cy Twombly's Green Paintings. Whether you're drawn to Renaissance masterpieces, modern installations, or contemporary American art, ...

Native American art has always been contemporary. It’s the museums who have attempted to lock it in the past. That practice, finally, is changing. Native American art has always been contemporary.

Christie’s Modern American Art Online auction will offer approachably priced works by leading artists associated with early 20th‑century movements including the Stieglitz Circle, Abstraction, Magic ...

There are countless examples of the ways that Black creativity in America has literally changed the world — from jazz, rock, and hip-hop, to soul food, to literature, to the power of a picture. The ...

We philosophers believe that there is something called ‘art’, which has an essence. And so our goal is to offer a general definition, encompassing all art made anywhere anytime. Art historians have a ...