The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York’s largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

And at Sotheby's last month, Picasso's "Femme à la Montre" ("Woman with a Watch") became the most expensive painting to be auctioned this year, selling for $139.4 million. Sotheby's art handlers ...

When we think of Cubism, a pivotal moment in the birth of modernism when artists began to deconstruct their pictorial compositions, we immediately think of Picasso and his collaborator Georges Braque.

Romanticism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau; Cubism (Picasso) and Surrealism (Dalí). In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing Impressionism ...

From Los Angeles to Antwerp, Jason Farago, our critic at large, picks a fall season laden with offerings on Cubism, modern Korean art and paintings of the Spanish Baroque. By Jason Farago Nothing ...

Two gallery shows of contemporary art in Manhattan bring geometry and tactility together with vibrant results. New York–based artist Celia Gerard is exhibiting her signature large-scale mixed media ...

ROBERT DELAUNAY was a big, blond, bright-eyed Parisian who had a passion for painting and was inordinately ambitious. As a youth, wrote Gertrude Stein, Delaunay “was always asking how old Picasso had ...