Mythical shapes and the impact of oil: Meet the nominees for the art world's prestigious prize

The shortlisted artists include Tanoa Sasraku, whose work examines the history and impact of oil [Belinda Lawley] A ...

What You Need to Know About Contemporary American Art

Peggy Guggenheim opens the Art of This Century gallery near New York’s Museum of Modern Art and begins showing ...
Artnet

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 ...
Indianapolis Recorder

Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis opens its doors this May

The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) officially opens its doors to the public during a weekend-long celebration ...

Virginia Museum Of Contemporary Art Opening New Building In Virginia Beach

Designed as both a museum and a civic space, the new Virginia MOCA invites the public into contemporary art in a way that ...
Artnet

Why Ultra-Contemporary Artists Are So Obsessed With Old Masters

Artists have always recycled their era’s “Old Masters”: Romans quoted the Greeks, Rodin studied Michelangelo, and Picasso returned to Rembrandt, to name just a few. While the prevalence of these ...
Los Angeles Times

LACMA has transitioned to a de facto contemporary art museum. But not a very good one

Do you miss LACMA? I do. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched more than 60 years ago as an encyclopedic place to collect and explore global art history from the last 3,000 years. Now, history ...

In Indianapolis, a New Contemporary Art Museum Comes With a D.J.

The 40,000-square-foot space, housed in a former dairy barn, aims to upend expectations of what an art museum can be.

You Get 3 Chances To Visit Europe’s Most Viral Modern Art Museum

Interested in modern art? Discover why Moco Museum in Barcelona, Amsterdam and London is one of the most talked about things ...

‘Beauty will save the world': 30th Moscow Art fair opens with wide range of work on display

The 30th annual Art Moscow fair opened on Wednesday in Russia's capital. After starting out as a strictly modern art event in ...

Texas' First Modern Art Museum Is In A Gorgeous San Antonio Colonial Mansion

Enjoy iconic artworks while exploring a stunning, historic Spanish Colonial mansion at Texas' first modern art museum in San ...
Observer

A Look Inside Cairo’s Contemporary Art Scene

However, the sprawling city also has an artistic heritage spanning centuries that is the foundation upon which Cairo’s contemporary art scene is built. As iconic cultural centers have been threatened ...