The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate,” an exhibition including major modern artists, reveals the connection between our naked ...

Early on in Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” Leni Riefenstahl says that she believes the opposite of politics is art. “If you feel things intensely as an artist … you live your life so ...

Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Retablos: The Art of Devotion on Saturday, February 24, 2024.

Throughout history, nature has been a constant muse for artists, guiding their interpretations of the world and enriching their work. In modern art movements, this inspiration has evolved and ...

Why the stark 20th-century architectural style is back in vogue.

Art historians have uncovered a hidden portrait beneath Pablo Picasso’s 1901 painting “Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto” ...

The critical reception of his work has shifted in tandem with changing political landscapes—prior to the 1970s, Laaksonen's art was either censored or rejected by mainstream culture, whereas after the ...

The 16,000-square-foot mansion built during the Gilded Age on New York's luxe Fifth Avenue is on the market for $49.9 million ...

Finnish National Gallery/ Alteneum Art Museum View from Pyynikki Ridge ... At the turn of the 20th Century, the frozen North – with its vast fjords, mystical boreal forests and radiant light ...

The Lieutenance Honfleur’ by Edward Seago, one of Britain’s best known and most widely collected 20th century artists, will be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Modern and Contemporary Art Sale on March 1 ...

Major artists such asOtto Dix, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee were stigmatized as representatives of this so-called "degenerate art", culminating in Entartete Kunst, which brought together over 600 ...