What could be a more appropriate—and instructive—companion to the Whitney Biennial, the always controversial selection of today’s adventurous artists, than a reminder of what preoccupied their daring ...

The story of American modernism is being rewritten and the Norton Museum of Art is taking part in that conversation with its concurrent spring exhibitions. "From Man Ray to O’Keeffe: American ...

The Multicultural Modernism of Winold Reiss (1886-1953): (Trans) National Approaches to His Work, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2022. Cover image: Winold Reiss, "Isamu Noguchi" (c. 1929). National Portrait ...

For most Texans, Charles Butt is a name encountered under fluorescent lights, pushing a grocery cart down the aisles of H-E-B. But step inside the Blanton Museum of Art this spring, and that same name ...

Excerpt: ‘Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism’, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy. Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy.

There’s a core tension in midcentury American Modernism between authenticity and commercial exploitation. Its most talented adherents were idealists whose work was so good that they became celebrity ...

"A McLellan book"--T.p. "Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial art" in the interwar years of ...

The idea of influence is so broad, so ubiquitous and so often misused that it may be the most misleading concept with which we try to make sense of art and art history. Artists may be influenced by ...