At the behest of the art-loving Obamas, Virginia Shore, the center’s curator of commissions, has contracted 30 artists to ...

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 ...

In Lowell, the dining hall is decorated with a crystal chandelier and Ionic columns. In Winthrop’s dining hall, the walls are adorned with framed portraits of the eponymous Winthrop family. In Dunster ...

The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park. Credit...Andy Haslam for ...

For art collectors, every day brings more intense enthusiasm for the contemporary art genre, which historians define as starting in the late 1960s or early 1970s. This excitement stems not only from ...

Each year, large contemporary art fairs pop-up in cities throughout the world, giving artists, gallery owners, collectors, and art lovers a chance to check out the newest work–and maybe do a few deals ...

Zoom out. What’s this place all about? Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, a marble waterfront palace in Santa Croce, houses a collection of prominent modern Italian works spanning the ...