The centenary of the Russian Revolution is an opportune time to reassess the diverse products of the Soviet Union’s 15 years of artistic freedom. Continue reading
New Art for a New World
Modern Art
Features From Previous Issues
Leonardo Cremonini: Paintings as Postcards
A forgotten postwar Italian artist comes to the fore. Continue reading
Oscar Bluemner: The Vermillionaire
Painting the landscape, Oscar Bluemner was also painting himself, in his own unique colors. Continue reading
A New Model
An innovative exhibition charts the path by which Picasso transformed the age-old relationship between artist and model. Continue reading
Defining Modernity
An enormous exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art examines the many dimensions of Mexican Modernism. Continue reading
The Return of Walter Quirt
An important American painter, nearly forgotten for decades, is being rediscovered. Continue reading
One California Painter
The Laguna Art Museum puts some 70 works by the Ukrainian-born, California-based artist Peter Krasnow. Continue reading
Birth of the Modern
Intended as interior design for the “common man,” so-called Biedermeier style turned out to be uncommonly prescient. Continue reading
Language of Light
A Guggenheim retrospective of László Moholy-Nagy examines the full breadth of the Bauhaus artist’s oeuvre. Continue reading
The Collector
Claudio Bravo used Old Master-inspired techniques to create a modern and very personal body of work in which the roles of artist and collector seem to merge. Continue reading