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What’s the Difference Between Modern and Contemporary Art?

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

A look at the beauty of Baghdad’s modern art — and the cultural cost of war

Much of Iraq’s modern art vanished after the U.S. invaded. A show of Baghdad’s 20th-century modernists helps fill in the ...
The Manhattan Mercury

From Dada to Surrealism : NY's Met bags major modern art injection

Nearly 200 works from the Dada and Surrealist movements, including "Ingres' Violin" by Man Ray -- the world's most expensive ...
Afro

African culture is the inspiration behind the modern art movement

These photos were featured in the exhibit “Motherhood and African Art” that was on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2020. As the largest continent in the world, encompassing 54 countries, ...
Rutland Herald

‘Creating a National Art’: The Ashcan and The Eight

The Ashcan School and The Eight is the unlikely name (ashcan, garbage can?) of the first American modern art movement, active in the early 20th century. But it was the fate of the Ashcan realists to ...
Hyperallergic

An Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum Explores How Revolution Inspired a Generation of Modern Indian Artists

Over 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and archival sources trace the rise of a vibrant modern art movement from India’s colonial period through its independence. Biren De, "August '78" (1978) ...
insider.si.edu

Japonisme and the rise of the modern art movement : the arts of the Meiji period : the Khalili collection / written and edited by Gregory Irvine with additional texts by Tayfun ...

The Khalili collection: Japanese art exhibitions -- Foreword / Professor Nasser D. Khalili -- Introduction / Gregory Irvine -- Vincent van Gogh and Japan / Axel Rüger -- From Namban to Meiji: the ...
The Express Tribune

Met Museum's surreal windfall

The announcement comes as the Met prepares for a $550 million expansion: the Oscar L Tang and HM Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, ...
World Socialist Web Site

Orphism, the early 20th century art movement, in focus at New York’s Guggenheim Museum

Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930, Guggenheim Museum in New York City, November 8, 2024–March 9, 2025 The exhibition Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris 1910–1930 at the ...