This constellation of artists was all occupied with the problem of how to best represent an experience or a three-dimensional subject and all the weight and movement it carried. All these artists believed that there was much more to reality than what the eye had been conditioned to read.
Interviews & Essays
As the final stretch to the Winter Olympics comes into view, the world’s eyes turn once more to the city of Milan. Just weeks after the city closed out its annual Fashion Week, runways are being traded in for ice rinks as athletes and fans descend upon the Italian north for the winter games.
From New York and Detroit to London and Basel, leading museums are staging major exhibitions devoted to canonical modernist masters at a moment when our world is as uncertain and tension-wrought as their early 20th century was. Marcel Duchamp, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andy Warhol will all be featured in the coming year around the world.
Imagine that you have just purchased the most eye-catching painting you’ve ever seen. It’s a beauty, a canvas glittering with color and that special je ne sais quoi. To art collectors, there’s almost nothing better. But there’s nothing worse than placing your new masterpiece in the wrong frame.
Before ringing in 2026, the US Senate unanimously approved the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025, which extends and expands the original 2016 legislation allowing claims for the recovery of cultural property as a result of Nazi looting during World War II.
While activism and art have long been intertwined, environmental activism and art have a more recent history. Artists have been using their work to call attention to environmental issues since the 1960s, while activists have been using artistic vandalism to draw attention to social and environmental issues since the early 20th century.
More than a century after they were founded, the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte movements have shot back into the interior-design limelight. With their geometric patterning, deeply saturated colors, and obsessive focus on craftsmanship, these iconic European styles are being rediscovered by today’s designers putting together spaces that unapologetically traverse genres and eras.
The last few months have seen a flurry of gallery space relocations and consolidations as owners seek more affordable locations to reduce overhead. Rising commercial rents, stiff competition from online platforms, and pressure to support artists have weighed heavily on the art market during recent years.
A fascinating exhibition at the Tate Modern in London reflected on the history of art and electronics before the advent of the internet. Electric Dreams not only showcases multimedia works by more than 70 artists both well-known and obscure but also gives occasion to reflect on the relationship between art and science, creativity and computing.
It seems curious that artists’ books are often regarded as a separate species in the art world, considered merely illustrated texts. When in reality, they can be so much more.
