Modernists will not want to miss this museum in the city's Cultural District. The museum showcases art from the 1940s to the present day and is housed in a striking concrete, glass and steel building ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the world’s first and only museum dedicated exclusively to women artists, recently reopened in Washington, D.C. after a two-year renovation. Sometime next ...

A new discovery that Neanderthals were painting cave walls more than 64,000 years ago has anthropologists rethinking the history of art. Found deep in Spanish caves, the rock art was once thought to ...

Oscar Howe (1915–1983) is one of the 20th century’s most innovative Native American painters, challenging stereotypes and creating pathways for other Native artists. The retrospective exhibition, ...

OF ALL, Europeans only the Greeks, and the Balkan peoples under their civilizing influences preserved the art forms, subjects, and principles of medieval Byzantium. Only if we fully appreciate this ...

In works like "Ships Departing," artist Paul Klee's childlike abstractions evoke music and the world of the imagination. Klee left Germany in 1933 and died in his native Switzerland in 1940. His work ...