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Ivan Kliun, Ozonator, 1914.

Out of This World

Four decades before Sputnik, Soviet avant-garde artists envisioned the conquest of space.

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Jackson Pollock, The Flame, circa 1934–38

Jackson Pollock: No Chaos

With his drip paintings, Jackson Pollock found a new kind of order that inspired future generations of artists in all media to strive for boundlessness. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyo. Eight years later, he moved with his family to small-town California. After working for a time…

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Flawless fancy vivid blue diamond from the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.

Flight of Fancy: Colored Diamonds

Colored, or “fancy,” diamonds have gone from being a curiosity to being the ultimate prize among gems.

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Andre Dubonnet, Jean Andreau, Hispano-Suiza, H6B Dubonnet “Xenia” Coupe, 1938

Moving Designs: Art Deco Cars and Motorcycles

Cars from the Art Deco era park themselves at the MFA Houston.

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Théodore Géricault, Sailboat on a Raging Sea, about 1818 – 1819

The Black Arts: 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints

The Getty Museum shines a light on some dark works.

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Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait, c. 1904

Pierre Bonnard: Trouble in Paradise

Pierre Bonnard’s search for Arcadian bliss may have been frustrated in life, but it yielded a harvest of color that endures in art.

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Manuel Mendive, Ofrenda (Offering), 2002

Cuban Art: Cuba Libre

As the decades-old U.S. embargo of Cuba winds down, Americans are becoming aware of what an exciting art scene exists just 90 miles off our shores.

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Pleasures of Parma

Mercanteinfiera, an international fair of modernism, antiques and collectibles, takes over the Italian city of Parma every fall and spring.

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One of a pair of lounge chairs by Franco Albini, Cassina

The Italian Line

​The grace and verve of postwar Italian design are causing it to find new favor with collectors and take its rightful place in the 20th-century canon.

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