Antonio Berni “New Chicago Athletic Club (Club Atlético Nueva Chicago)” (1937), oil on canvas, 6 feet 3/4 inches × 9 feet 10 1/4 inches, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Inter-American Fund, 1942 ...

New York City’s Armory Show of 1913 was the first major exhibition of modernist art on American soil, and the city has been associated with modernism ever since. Today, perhaps only Paris rivals New ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1577): If there’s one strand in the early history of modern art that’s been more neglected than others, it’s the one that involved folk and outsider art. Almost all the great modern ...

Prunella Clough, a superbly weird British modernist who died in 1999, at the age of eighty, was fond of a quote by Édouard Manet: “Painting is like throwing oneself into the sea to learn to swim.” ...

A current exhibition tracks the development of an anti-imperialist artist who fused modernism with African iconography.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Can a museum devoted to modernism survive the death of the movement? Can it ...

Through the thoughtful placement of works, the curators present visitors with cohesive galleries that present a fluid narration.

Cover of Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns featuring Agnes Pelton's "Sand Storm" (1929) (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) Religion influenced modern art's development far more than most ...

SBI Art Auction is gearing up to stage its Modern Legacy and Bloom Now sales, bringing together a range of modern and ...

Long seen as the poor relation of the international art world, modern African art has undergone a massive surge in prestige and commercial interest over the past two decades. The realisation that ...

While growing up amid a mainstream American childhood of cartoons, cereal boxes and kid-friendly illustrations in school readers, I also knew crucifixes, saint statues, a living-room portrait of Mary ...