The paintings speak for themselves in the companion shows opening Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. No fancy graphics, interactive playrooms or explanatory videos plump out the space, aside ...

Willemijn Stokvis, the preeminent art historian on CoBrA, considers it “the last avant-garde movement of the 20th century.” This radical group, active from 1948 to 1951, named itself for the home ...

Avant-garde art: a desire to create new forms of expression. Influencing culture through experimentation with new techniques and mediums, artists were often the first to embrace new technologies and ...

Just as the mouse may be an “unexpected” artistic muse, so a Hollywood kids’ movie about a talking mouse is an unexpected place to find a missing painting from the Hungarian modernist avant-garde.

MADRID, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Ukrainian art has found a refuge in Madrid where a retrospective on the country's avant-garde in the early 20th century is showing works little known to the general public ...

When the German chocolate tycoon Peter Ludwig decided to collect abstract paintings from the Soviet Union, he was bound to get duped. Educated in art history, and holding a PhD for his research on ...

Roosevelt needed to get America ready to fight and he already knew that his efforts to help unemployed Americans find themselves in social realist art would have to be abandoned. American art had to ...