When art went Whaam!

American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a...

Pierre Koenig’s modern materials

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case...

Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language

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

Fiell... , Fiell...

The life and work of Glasgow School pioneer Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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

The charge of 20th-century expressionism

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter...

Changing the course of 20th-century art

When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to...

Fernando Botero's fulsome and frolicking forms

Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the...

G... , Grosenick...

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

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he...

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....

Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing...

One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended...

The onset of Expressionism
In the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brucke artists’ group...

Walter Gropius, visionary of the Bauhaus and beyond
Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding...

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...

Hagen... , Hagen...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes...

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

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and...

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...

The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this...

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...