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 Academy Art Museum in Easton has a new upcoming exhibit — “Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist.” You must be logged in to rate. Click any rating to login.

Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” aims to disrupt the way we think of art history—not only in Africa but globally. Featuring 59 artists working over a period of 50 years, the 300 artworks in the show ...

Scholar and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu talks about the meaning Nigeria's 1960s art upsurge. Uche Okeke, Fantasy and Masks (ca.1960). © The Prof Uche Okeke Legacy ...

In her most personal work to date, third-generation gallerist and art curator Lily Mora explores the archives of her late grandmother, French-born Australian artist Mirka Mora, for a new show at the ...

The best U.S. modern architecture of the past dozen years—that is the material of a book on sale last week at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art. Built in U.S.A.—1932-1944 ($3) reviews handsomely in ...

Shakir Hassan Al Said, 'Letters,' 1961. Oil, gesso, cotton, linen canvas, 94.2 cm x 82 cm x 2.5 cm. At first glance, it would be difficult to discern this artwork as coming from Arab origins, and not ...

"This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a "parallel modernism" that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using ...