The thing to remember, Hansen Mulford tells me, is that I’m not looking at an object. "You’re really looking at light," he says as the gallery’s sharply focused beams glint off the crystal-clear ...

What does it mean to paint now, in an image-saturated world where every moment can be captured in high resolution and consumed within seconds? Recent contemporary painting trends suggest a widespread ...

Taylor Wilshire’s mother was a classical master teacher, “a true artist” as Wilshire referred to her, and her father worked for the United Nations. This might explain why Wilshire is ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

It is very uncommon for Mondrian’s artworks from his mature period in the 1920 and 1930s to go up for auction. They are usually housed in museum collections, given their significance to the ...

From Picasso paintings brightening up the deck to workshops with renowned contemporary artists, here’s how cruising is going ...