Venture deep into the hinterlands of modern art history, and you come across the artistic movement of the 1880s and 1890s known as Symbolism. An international, diffuse, idealist, and mystical reaction ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the ...

The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual ...

Few things capture the imagination of art history more than a talented couple. Lee Miller and Man Ray, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Sonia and Robert Delaunay—the pairs all conjure up images of lovers ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

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From the March 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Thinking about the uneasy relationship between the crafts and the world of progressive fine art, I’m often put in mind of the film ...

Christopher S. Wood has long been known as both an art historian and historiographer, publishing an early book on Albrecht Altdorfer and a translation and commentary on the Vienna School of art ...

Humor me while I set the scene. You’re perusing a modern art museum, well-aware that you’re surrounded by some of the most esteemed objects to grace the last century. You round the corner and come ...