Around 4:30 in the afternoon on April 26, 1937, the citizens of the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, looked overhead to see a formation of aircraft crossing the sky. They were bombers…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death on April 8, 1973, at age 91. He died in Mougins, France, at his hilltop villa, a 35-room mansion surrounded by 17 acres…
Cubism signaled a seismic break with artistic tenets that had held sway since the Renaissance.
Every child starts out as an artist, bringing home drawings and ceramics that wind up occupying pride of place on the family’s refrigerator door or mantelpiece. Of course, not every kid…
Warhol's biographical details are concrete enough, but he remains a cipher.
Few artists among the Old Masters produced work as startlingly fresh to contemporary eyes as Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541–1614), a Greek transplant to the Iberian city of Toledo who’s better known…
The story of performance art is as complicated as the category itself.
These days, nobody gives much thought to the idea of artistic practice fitting into an overriding narrative of historical progress. The current scene is liberating if shapeless, as artists work from…
To call Gordon Parks a Renaissance man would be a massive understatement.