Why Art Deco Still Dazzles 100 Years On
Sitting between a dazzling milieu of precious luxury and an industrial age recovering from a great war, Art Deco asks us to reckon with the place of art and design in modern life.
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Gabriele Münter’s Love Affair with Photography, Painting, and Kandinsky
The Guggenheim surveys the work of the German Expressionist painter.
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A Once-in-a-Generation Henri Rousseau Exhibition Highlights the Strangeness and Luminosity of His Paintings
The self-taught artist was anything but naïve.
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In His Paintings, Chaïm Soutine Found the Divine in Decay
Soutine's representational canvases may have fallen out amid micentury AbEx fervor, but they are certainly back in now.
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Suzanne Duchamp, the Mama of Dada, Made Absurdism Sparkle and Shine
Work in her traveling retrospective perpetuates the playfulness of Dada without its wry and often cold affect.
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“Northern Lights” Show Proposes a New Geography of Art
The exhibition at the Buffalo AKG Museum showcases paintings of the boreal forest from Scandinavia and Canada.
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Who Was J.M.W. Turner and Why Was He So Important?
Joseph Mallord William Turner ranks among Britain's most famous artists, celebrated today for landscapes that rankled his 19th-century contemporaries with their unbridled light and color.
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Takashi Murakami’s Serious Side
Murakami's skill and his knowledge of art history, which includes a PhD in traditional Japanese painting, are evident in his Gagosian exhibition.
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Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific
The visual splendor of this Dutch Golden Age painter's work, featuring gorgeous arrays of fruits and flowers animated by buzzing insects, delights in tableau after tableau.
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How Suzanne Valadon Went from Circus Performer to Model to Post-Impressionist
The French painter has been the subject of six major exhibitions in as many years, including a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou through May 26.
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