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.

Imagine Guernica, rendered in sequins, on a tote bag, sold by H&M. Now do the same thing to critical thought.

The iconoclast portrayed scenes of vengeful violence.

Her retrospective is on view at the Fondation Cartier through March 17.

Once a critique of capitalist excess, many Arte Povera works have now become luxury objects, displayed in a museum funded by one of the world's wealthiest individuals.

Kostianovsky's neo-Rococo fiber-based works are on view at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.

García-Alix was part of La Movida Madrileña, a youth movement of the 1970s and '80s, whose participants and influences are evident in his photographs.

Bucking gendered limitations and representations, women artists in 1920 Paris celebrated the "new woman" and hoped for societal change after WW1.

Chaïm Soutine's paintings helped Willem de Kooning resolve his best known series with a fervent mixture of abstraction and figuration.

Paris-born midcareer artist Dove Allouche's abstract imagery seems utterly autonomous: tied to no philosophical system, no social cause, no psychological model, no aesthetic doctrine.