A few years ago, my family and I visited Japan, spending part of our trip in Tokyo, home to Shibuya Crossing — one of the biggest intersections in the world. While there were many highlights from our ...

The 1920s was a period of cultural revolution that came soon after the traumatic events of World War I. The mass-scale ...

Leonardo Nierman was a leading figure in modern Mexican art, renowned for his dynamic abstract landscapes that evoked motion ...

The artist’s large abstract canvases are well worth seeing in person, with their vivid, startling and nuanced colors and subjects that are the stuff of dreams. An installation view of “Hilma af Klint” ...

When the Russian-born artist Tatulli first came to the U.S. 33 years ago, it was because she couldn't feed her son in Moscow. "Russia's a complicated country, both politically and economically," she ...

and the star lot is one of Claude Monet’s “Nymphéas” paintings, which is making its auction debut. The sale will also feature works by other well-known artists, including Wassily Kandinsky ...

In the early 20th century, an international circle of friends came together to push the boundaries of art. Formed in Munich in 1911, The Blue Rider were a community of painters, performers and ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

The paintings have replaced portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. The portrait of the late Tudor monarch, painted around 1592 by the Flemish artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger ...

the bark paintings look reassuringly familiar, because they resonate comfortably with Western abstract paintings. Wanambi’s “Destiny” (2019) is a beautiful allover pattern that shimmers like ...

After Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, Bela and Hilda Parlagi fled for London and placed their possessions, including a considerable art collection, with a Vienna transport company for ...

The Gestapo seized the Impressionist painting from storage after its owners fled from their home in Vienna. Now, the piece has been returned to their granddaughters Julia Binswanger Daily ...