The Soviets were the first to tyrannize art. While at the beginning of the Russian Revolution, modern art also was seen as a revolution and ... for it was the largest single show of 20th-century avant ...

Cubism, impressionism, expressionism and... Is there anything else? Many artistic currents did not achieve such renown, but ...

Popular art soirees in Guggenheim’s Manhattan town house inspired the heiress to open the Art of This Century gallery, which became the 1940s cutting-edge venue for modern art and emerging ...

If Henri Matisse was regarded as the father of modern art at the dawn of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was sleeping with the same muse. When Picasso finished his form shattering masterpiece Les ...

The 1920s movement is winning fans abroad, even as its legacy is embattled at home.

By the late 20th century, however, the widespread standardization of gas stations led them to be perceived as "non-places", a concept defined by anthropologist Marc Augé to describe transient ...

The lessons in Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources represent the ... Fifteen NCTA alumni teachers representing history, literature, art history, and geography were ...

An exhibition in Paris is celebrating the work of Black artists who were active in France in the second half of the 20th century. Now on view at the Centre Pompidou, which houses Europe’s largest ...

The establishment of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1918 synchronized with the evolution of 20th-century Chinese art. Artists and educators reformed to awaken and motivate people ...