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 ...

Discover a range of decorative painting techniques perfect for transforming any space. Watch step-by-step demonstrations of textured wall panels, geometric patterns, circular designs, and honeycomb ...

Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path.

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.

During my art school education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the early ’90s, our teachers made us study the history of painting ranging from the old masters to the Abstract ...

Years ago, the artist Harry Gould Harvey IV came across a fallen black walnut tree in a friend’s yard. He experienced a moment of revelation and felt a sudden urge to make a frame for his drawings ...

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 ...

"Paris Review," a 1967 screenprint by Venezuelan American artist Marisol, is on view in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibition "A Decade of Pop Prints and Multiples, 1962–1972: The Frank ...

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 ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...

A young woman stands defiantly as two police officers clad in body armor and riot helmets attempt to arrest her. They reach for her and yet seem to fall away, as though her poise repels them. The ...

In 1854, the consumptive Pre-Raphaelite Siddal was being treated by the homeopathic doctor James Garth Wilkinson, an important Swedenborgian translator and editor, a spiritualist, and a collector of ...