Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple....

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The life and work of Glasgow School pioneer Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie...

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Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With...

The king of the contemplative landscape
The beauty of nature and man’s loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar...

The roaring twenties in Berlin
It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus...

The master of Japanese ukiyo-e
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition....

August Macke (1887-1914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I....

A colorful exploration of the life and work of Gerhard Richter
An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his...

Diego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent...

The painterly gestures of personal feelings
Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence,...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable...

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of the mighty Titian, the most important member of the Venetian High...

Painter, inventor, architect, scientist, and engineer: Leonardo da Vinci stands to this day as one of the most accomplished human...

Often imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way...

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art,...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied...

Discover the shimmering and sensual oeuvre of Gustav Klimt, the Austrian symbolist painter who polarized the art world by...

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting...

The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored...

Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art...

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious...

The Old Man Mad about Painting.
Hokusai, the master who unleashed a tsunami on the art world.
Meet the artist whose majestic...

As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas...

From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Rene Magritte...

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he...