Shortly after World War II, however, the ideas driving art again began to change. Postmodernism pulls away from the modern focus on originality, and the work is deliberately impersonal.

This can make it problematic to attend a modern art museum with me, a task my wife, a genuine and sophisticated art lover, approaches with a mixture of caution and bravado. While I’ve learned to ...

Celebrating 50 years of the modernist masterpiece that shocked critics ... envelopes and enclosures take center stage in an intimate new art show Can art alter the course of history?

that universal truths fueled that trajectory. In rejecting those two core ideas, postmodern art and design representatively broke with linear historical progress by embracing pastiche (art that ...

The In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s exhibition running until October 13 at London’s Royal Academy contains wonderful avant-garde art works from the early twentieth century.

And Brazilian art has never been the same since. A century later, Switzerland is hosting the largest international exhibition of Brazilian modernism since 1944, when a dozen artists donated their ...