An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting ...

An artist works on a piece of rock pigment painting in Wuyishan City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Dec. 5, 2025.

THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

In "A Midsummer Afternoon Dream" (detail view), artist Amy Sherald uses a grayscale rendering to portray a woman of color, a bold move away from verisimilitude that highlights the personhood of the ...

Installation view of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015). Photo ...

A GOOD model, badly posed, lends itself to very awkward studies, and does not instruct the eye as it should. French art is a subject that for a long time has been badly posed before Americans. Those ...

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 ...

In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” paintings, and ...

Artnet’s spring Post-War and Contemporary Art premier sale has now launched online, offering a diversity of genres and price points. Featuring major art-historical figures including Pablo Picasso and ...

Looking closely at classical paintings and modern art reveals a striking contrast rooted in how each era approaches structure ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Francisco Goitia, “Zacatecas Landscape with Hanged Men I” (c. 1914) (courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art) Ironically, several artists who created celebrated images of the Mexican Revolution did ...