Douglas Cooper waded into art-world battles with abandon—while scooping up a trove of works by Picasso and others.

Aicon Gallery presents a solo exhibition on Maqbool Fida Husain and his generative relationship with patron Davida Herwitz.

Lucky is the artist who is born to his vocation. For an optimum outcome, however, what seems to be required-in Lucky is the artist who is born to his vocation. For an optimum outcome, however, what ...

Societal transformations often spark controversy. In the early 1900s, a new movement in art — derisively called “cubism” for the bizarre cubes the art supposedly depicted — sparked backlash. In 1913, ...

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

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 ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...

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