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 ...

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 ...

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.

Matisse’s portrait of his wife, Amélie, a hatmaker, takes center stage during “Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal,” an exhibition illuminating how the painting made its mark on art history.

John Baldessari, Six Colorful Inside Jobs, 1977; 16 mm film transferred to video (color, silent); 32 minutes, 53 seconds. Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G.

The painting is as dazzling as it is unsettling, not only by virtue of its monumental size (8' 2 1/2" x 11' 5 7/8") but also its boisterous colors and panoramic view of figures in motion. As your gaze ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced an acquisition of 38 paintings by preeminent Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian; 1899–1983) from the collection of the artist’s daughter, Sing ...

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 conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...