NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

“Henri who?” is the likely response to his name. Only specialists know of him. Yet for a few short years before World War I, Henri Le Fauconnier (1881-1946) was acclaimed by critics and artists alike ...

IN a warren of studios and flats known as “the wash house,” at No. 13 Rue Ravignan in Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York’s largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged ...

The Norton Museum of Art is hosting Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection, a selection of over 150 pieces of jewelry made by some of the most significant artists of the 20th ...

Normally, you should be able to maintain a safe distance from others while still enjoying the space to explore art – unless you’re at the Louvre, of course, gawking at the “Mona Lisa.” Lately, it ...

Pablo Picasso’s Buffalo Bill, a pre-war Cubist painting depicting the American frontiersman, is expected to fetch between US$10 million and US$15 million next Thursday evening at Christie’s in New ...

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 ...

In the 18th century painted decoration was the order of the day on everything from royal carriages to commoners’ chamber pots. Has the time come to revive the tradition? Suggesting that the answer is ...