Born in the late nineteenth century, Modernism sought to challenge conventional institutions of its time. The late nineteenth century saw a shifting European political structure, with the birth of nation-states rising from the ashes of empires. This period was also significant in academic achievements and rapid industrialization.
December 2025 Art News
Weaving the New World: Hispanic Textiles and Their Influence on the Northern Frontier opens December 6 as the winter exhibition at Couse-Sharp Historic Site. Installed in both the modern Dean Porter Gallery space and the 1830s Luna Chapel, Weaving the New World demonstrates the unique, rich, and colorful textile traditions that developed in New Mexico, Mexico, and elsewhere in what is now the American Southwest.
Echoing a pilot program launched in 1950, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will now allow cardholders to borrow select pieces of art for up to three weeks, as of November 3rd.
Leonardo Drew is the embodiment of form and content. His expansive personality explodes with associations and ebullience; so does his art. “Superadditive,” he calls it. There really don’t seem to be any limits to his art, which is free-form yet meticulously crafted.
When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, the major retrospective now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, positions Wifredo Lam as a political, spiritual, and insurgent force—a world-builder who ultimately slips classification.
