Modernism
Podcast | A brush with… Rana Begum
An in-depth interview with sculptor and painter Rana Begum, exploring her experiences with the Qur’an, J.M.W. Turner and negotiating the London cityscape
The Big Review: Chicago exhibition captures Georgia O’Keeffe's love of cityscapes
From her Manhattan skyscraper studio, the grande dame of American Modernism painted the city below with aplomb
Podcast | A brush with… Eva Rothschild
An in-depth interview with the sculptor, exploring the 'material giddiness' of making work—and the profound effect of Sinead O’Connor
New book reveals how art dealer Léonce Rosenberg trod the line between salesman and Modern art's great champion
He declared the auction to be art’s true benchmark, but Rosenberg was also a committed promoter of the avant-garde
How the American South was won over by Modernism
Touring show seeks to 'de-exoticise' the predominant narrative
The presence of death: new book highlights the existential anxieties of William Gillies
A taster ahead of a later publication explores the Scottish painter’s focus on mental frailty, family and war
Dublin show looks at the links between the making of nations and rise of Modernism
Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art draws parallels between the geopolitical shifts after the First World War and what the artists of new nations were making
Dorothy Liebes survey weaves the story of her little-known but colourful career
Cooper Hewitt in New York celebrates the creator of vibrant mid-century Modern textiles
The last hurrah? Art world excess at Art Basel Miami Beach
Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid
Mexican émigré Olga Costa makes a fruitful return to her native city with Leipzig exhibition
The German city is hosting the first major European exhibition of her paintings, which are barely known outside her adopted country of Mexico
Ukrainian Modernist masterpieces transported from Kyiv under missile fire find refuge in Madrid exhibition
Survey show at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza will open with an address by President Zelensky and a symposium calling for a European cultural deal with Ukraine
Innovative or elitist? A new book takes a close look at Latin American Modernism
A study of four 20th-century artists concentrates on close examination of works and intentions, rather than grand simplifying narratives.
The Big Review: Postwar Modern—New Art in Britain 1945-1965 at Barbican Gallery
A show shaped by refugees and immigrants who made new lives on British shores has a war-stained resonance with today
Brazilian Modernist building struck by fire receives Getty conservation grant
The Jorge Machado Moreira-designed architecture and urbanism building of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has received a $240,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to support the conservation of its archive
Loki’s production designer on the Modernist inspiration behind the show’s stunning visuals
Kasra Farahani explains why the Time Variance Authority waiting room looks so much like the Breuer building, and how the inside of a Fabergé egg became an alien train carriage
This book makes an arresting argument for the foundations of modern art
The Hamburger Kunsthalle’s exhibition catalogue groups Tiepolo, Fragonard and Goya as forerunners of Modernism
This little book will help the Scottish Colourists find further fame south of the border
Well known between the two World Wars, the four French-trained artists are slowly coming back into critical attention
A Southern belle with a range of painterly styles is bought to the fore in this thorough book
Dusti Bongé was an artist who lived and worked in the Deep South and who was a versatile, if little known, artist
Hammer Time: Christie's Impressionist and Modern evening sale November 2019
In our new video series, deputy art market editor Margaret Carrigan recaps the highlights of New York's billion-dollar auction week
What art world figures think of MoMA's $450m makeover
Curators and dealers perceive a “new metabolism” in the permanent collection galleries
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
Thoroughly Modern Maharaja: how an Indian prince amassed one of the world’s greatest interwar design collections
Paris exhibition includes furniture by Eileen Gray, sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and photographs by Man Ray
Decorative arts market report: The field is booming, fuelled by museum buying and style-hounds
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
This catalogue succinctly surveys Leon Kossoff’s London life paintings
Cityscapes and portraits, along with his Old Master transcriptions, feature in this book that accompanies an exhibition at London's Piano Nobile Gallery
Eileen Gray’s and Le Corbusier’s architectural gems reopen after extensive restoration
A Modernist villa and hut in the south of France feature wall paintings by Le Corbusier
The Getty Conservation Institute maps out a plan to preserve the Eames House
The Los Angeles Modernist home was designed and lived in by Charles and Ray Eames
New Berlin exhibition exposes Emil Nolde’s Nazi ties
Show at the Hamburger Bahnhof explores how the German artist hid behind Hitler's "degenerate" label
Weimar—birthplace of Bauhaus—opens new museum dedicated to the influential design school
On the same day, the nearby Neues Museum Weimar will open a new permanent exhibition on early Modernism
Frida Kahlo's letters conceal nothing and reveal nothing
Kahlo’s communications with her mother are unsurprisingly banal
More to Viennese Modernism than Klimt and Schiele: new show on forgotten female artists
Organisers had to delve deep into the Belvedere archives and visit artist's descendants to assemble the exhibition