Mary Cassatt’s pastel portrait ‘Sara in a Bonnet’ (C. 1901). (Courtesy SBMA, Bequest of Leslie L. Ridley-Tree) Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art lecture series Art Matters will present a talk ...

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CHMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Through in-depth essays on selected issues related to the meaning of ornament and its theoretical importance for the formation of ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Can a museum devoted to modernism survive the death of the movement? Can it ...

The idea of integration between art and architecture dates back to the very origin of the discipline, however, it took on a new meaning and social purpose during the Avant-Garde movement of the early ...

Huey Copeland, BFC Presidential Associate Professor of History of Art, was awarded the 2024 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History for a volume on modernism and ...

Barnett Newman's abstract paintings-imposing monochromes interrupted by mysterious thin "zips" of color-have been known to inspire extreme forms of wonderment and veneration. Art critic Peter ...

Our critic hails the return of MoMA, and nine ambitious autumn art shows. By Roberta Smith This autumn the excavation, reconstitution and globalization of 20th-century modernism continues apace. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park. Credit...Andy Haslam for ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...