If there’s one thing abstract art is not, it’s straightforward. Packed with meaning, often beguilingly simple in design, the style has the power to simultaneously inspire and bewilder. Some may think ...

Almost 50 years have passed since a major exhibition of Picasso’s sculpture appeared in the U.S. The one that just opened at the Museum of Modern Art will be a revelation to everyone who sees it.

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Napoleon V. Abueva (born 1930) is one of the most important figures in Philippine art history. Acknowledged as the Father of Philippine Modern Sculpture, Abueva, according to an excerpt from his 1976 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 6 years old. When Panagiotis ...

Nestled inside a thicket of highways in central Philadelphia, thousands of young plants are just beginning to show the golds and reds of fall. Butterflies linger in large swaths of purple salvia amid ...

John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Jamese Jefferson and Gloria Bollock, 1992. Jefferson and Bollock were among a large group of young African Americans who volunteered to have their likenesses cast in ...

The Modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) last received a London retrospective in 1968. Not that Hepworth, a pioneer of Modernism in Britain and one of the first globally recognized female ...

Dominating the first room of the Royal Academy’s new exhibition, Modern British Sculpture, is a model of the Cenotaph. “Model” is accurate, in the sense that the RA haven’t dispatched a team to ...

A giant spider sculpture has been reinstalled in the Tate Modern as part of the gallery’s 25th anniversary. Created by the artist Louise Bourgeois, Maman is a bronze, stainless steel and marble spider ...