The arrival of early 20th-century avant-gardism is generally considered the historical tsunami that swamped the conventions of Western art dating from the Renaissance. Yet this wave had begun building ...

Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...