Our globally diverse collection of modern and contemporary art encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, photography, video and digital media. Among the highlights are paintings ...

Audrey Flack, Queen, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel, 2022.11.5 Note to editors: Selected high-resolution ...

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 Smithsonian American Art Museum reopens its modern and contemporary galleries with a new installation of its permanent collection that freshly examines the explosion of possibility in American art ...

Installation view of Now! Young Painting in Germany at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz; Sabrina Haunsperg, “Ohne Titel (2019) Oil on canvas 90 x 110 cm (image courtesy ...

These up-and-coming painters use different techniques and have different role models for their art, but all investigate modernity through a lens of traditional paintings. BEN SLEDSENS, Jaguar in the ...

For those looking to add a bit of whimsy to their decor, consider two top trending looks — acrylic and copper. Acrylic, also called Plexiglass, was introduced in 1933 by the Rohm and Haas Co., and the ...

An exhibition presents watercolor paintings in the country's modern and contemporary art. The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do Province, since March 21 has ...

Against a mood of anxiousness framed by last week’s Impressionist and modern art sales, and last night’s sale at Phillips, which all struggled to meet their lower estimates, Sotheby’s entered the fray ...