ReviewBook Shorts
This book makes an arresting argument for the foundations of modern art
The Hamburger Kunsthalle’s exhibition catalogue groups Tiepolo, Fragonard and Goya as forerunners of Modernism
ReviewBook Shorts
This little book will help the Scottish Colourists find further fame south of the border
Well known between the two World Wars, the four French-trained artists are slowly coming back into critical attention
ReviewBook Shorts
A Southern belle with a range of painterly styles is bought to the fore in this thorough book
Dusti Bongé was an artist who lived and worked in the Deep South and who was a versatile, if little known, artist
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
What art world figures think of MoMA's $450m makeover
Curators and dealers perceive a “new metabolism” in the permanent collection galleries
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
PreviewExhibitions
Thoroughly Modern Maharaja: how an Indian prince amassed one of the world’s greatest interwar design collections
Paris exhibition includes furniture by Eileen Gray, sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and photographs by Man Ray
ArchiveArt market
Decorative arts market report: The field is booming, fuelled by museum buying and style-hounds
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
ReviewBook Shorts
This catalogue succinctly surveys Leon Kossoff’s London life paintings
Cityscapes and portraits, along with his Old Master transcriptions, feature in this book that accompanies an exhibition at Lodnon's Piano Nobile Gallery
NewsConservation & Preservation
Eileen Gray’s and Le Corbusier’s architectural gems reopen after extensive restoration
A Modernist villa and hut in the south of France feature wall paintings by Le Corbusier
NewsConservation & Preservation
The Getty Conservation Institute maps out a plan to preserve the Eames House
The Los Angeles Modernist home was designed and lived in by Charles and Ray Eames
PreviewGermany
New Berlin exhibition exposes Emil Nolde’s Nazi ties
Show at the Hamburger Bahnhof explores how the German artist hid behind Hitler's "degenerate" label
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Weimar—birthplace of Bauhaus—opens new museum dedicated to the influential design school
On the same day, the nearby Neues Museum Weimar will open a new permanent exhibition on early Modernism
ReviewBooks
Frida Kahlo's letters conceal nothing and reveal nothing
Kahlo’s communications with her mother are unsurprisingly banal
PreviewExhibitions
More to Viennese Modernism than Klimt and Schiele: new show on forgotten female artists
Organisers had to delve deep into the Belvedere archives and visit artist's descendants to assemble the exhibition
FeatureBauhaus
Bauhaus is 100 years old in 2019—but which one are we celebrating?
The German school, one of the crucibles of Modernism, was a complex entity
FeatureBauhaus
Germany celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus with a bonanza of museum openings and exhibitions
From newly conserved buildings and puppet shows to virtual-reality installations and ballet, across the country the German school is finally getting its due
NewsExhibitions
Feminist photographer Anne Brigman rediscovered in Nevada Art Museum show
The artist, once championed by Alfred Stieglitz, fell into obscurity after her death in 1950
InterviewArt history
Reliving the dawn of Modernism in India
An art historian explores the importance of the pathbreaking Progressive Artists’ Group, the focus of an exhibition opening at Asia Society
ArchiveDigital Age
The digital age meets design classics at Design Miami
Galleries test the market for innovation, but there is also a wealth of Modernism on show
ArchiveTate Britain
Exhibition explores the avant-garde aspects of the conservative Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelite movement was conservative: “back to the future” might well have been its motto
ArchiveAntiquities & Archaeology
An exploration of the impact of archaeology on modernism: Knossos in myth and interpretation
The Concrete Labyrinth
ArchiveCorcoran Gallery and College of Art and Design
Washington DC. Corcoran’s future remains uncertain
The institution hopes a $2m V&A blockbuster exhibition of modernist design will draw visitors and sponsors
ArchiveCollectors
Russian billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on art. None of them has spoken to the press about what drives their collecting—until now
Russian collector Pyotr Aven shows his hand
ArchiveCollectors
Collector Bob Rubin's proves passion for Prouvé in $1 million restoration
The artist’s Maison Tropicale is on show this month at Yale
ArchiveKunstmuseum Basel
Top Swiss collection of Modernist art on long-term loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel
Up until this point, the works were in the custody of a foundation established by the Im Obersteg family subsequent to their purchase
ArchiveColonial art
Roger Benjamin's study into the colonial relationship between Modernism and Orientalism
This study investigates how North African artists were influenced by French artists—and vice versa
ArchiveExhibitions
Le Corbusier before Le Corbusier: exhibition focuses on the formative years of experimentation
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Design and Culture
ArchiveBooks
John Richardson's "Sacred monsters, sacred masters", a vision of the idiosyncratic personalities that left their mark on the art world
John Richardson’s insights into the great artists and collectors of the last century
ArchiveLudwig Museum
All eyes on the collectors as Cologne's Ludwig Museum opens after renovation
The refurbished and extended Ludwig Museum has opened, with hundreds of Picassos on display and a colour-coded system for requesting sponsorship
ArchiveBooks
Books: Absence in art and the absent Kapoor artwork in analyses of nothing
The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work
ArchiveAmerican Museums
The once and future MoMA: The museum's double role plays out across two exhibitions
Across two venues MoMA presents one exhibition examining the past, while a collaboration on another focuses on the future of art
ArchiveArt dealers
Diary of a dealer: the American Modernism dealer, Hollis Taggart
Rising prices and increasing prestige for certain artists as collectors awake to Modernism’s sleepers
ArchiveAuction Report
London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
ArchiveCommercial galleries
What's on in New York: Degas, Dow and Diego
Also on show are pastel landscapes at Artemis and high-tech furniture at Barry Friedman
ArchiveBooks
Books: Modernism behind the Iron Curtain and in wartime Paris
The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books
ArchiveBooks
Books: Wyndham Lewis and the art of modern war
This collection positions Lewis as an “anti-war war artist”
ArchiveBooks
Books: The market muscles its way back onto the agenda, with Bacon and the body keeping pace
Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe
ArchiveArt Basel
What’s on beyond Art Basel this summer
Exploring Basel commercial galleries; from Classic Modernists to new contemporaries
ArchiveCollectors
Collector profile: Raymond Nasher, the world’s biggest private collector of modern sculpture
The shopping-mall millionare has been wooed by museums all over the world, but Dallas looks set to benefit from generosity in the great American tradition
ArchiveExhibitions
Elizabeth Murray curates MoMA exhibition of women Modernist artists
This feminist show is the fifth of the museum's artist-curated exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection
ArchiveExhibitions
Italy turns to Modernism as Warhol goes on show in Rome and Florence galleries are revitalised
Beautiful art in the Beautiful Country