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 first public exhibition of Jack White's artwork, Cheryl Finley gets the David C. Driskell Prize, and more news to know.

Today's renewed interest in handcrafted details, natural materials, and character-rich interiors might signal a modern revival of this 1800s trend. The Arts and Crafts movement began just a few ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Ashcan School and The Eight is the unlikely name (ashcan, garbage can?) of the first American modern art movement, active in the early 20th century. But it was the fate of the Ashcan realists to ...

From left to right: “Untitled (Wall with Doorway),” 1966, Alfred Young Man; “Crow Stripes No. 7,” 1967, Carl Tubby; “Nez Perce IV,” 1966, Carl Tubby Credit: Brian Chilson Just as Indigenous scholars ...

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 ...

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