At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), there's a captivating self-portrait of the artist Joan Brown hugging Donald, her resplendent tabby cat. "She is holding onto Donald so tightly ...

Editor's note: this story was originally published in February 2023. Modern art is basically a con game. And by that I mean, the value of a piece of modern art is not intrinsically in the item ...

Bacon was similar. He didn’t paint many images like this one, a 1953 painting at the National Gallery of Art called “Study of a Dog.” But the loping, blurry, foreshortened dog emerging from ...

The Museum of Modern Art opened its first exhibition, “ Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh,” just weeks after the stock market crash that would lead to the Great Depression.On November 16 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Acclaimed Louisiana artist George Rodrigue was best known for his world-famous “Blue Dog” paintings, and now, his life story is being told in a new documentary film airing on PBS.

In 1959, the prominent New York art dealer George Staempfli visited the studio of Joan Brown, a 21-year-old California Bay Area artist whose style at the time was one of thickly painted, darkly ...

Transcendental Painting Group is one of Modern art’s best kept secrets. This LACMA show proves it. Florence Miller Pierce, “Rising Red,” 1942, oil on canvas ...