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 ...

“African art.” American audiences for generations have been conditioned to connect that phrase with items like wood carvings, masks, and shields. The “African art” galleries at most museums are full ...

On display from January 6th through February 10th are works by Helen Boyd, Jacki Olson and Emily Christenson, all of the Quad Cities. These three women have designed an exhibit based on the idea of ...

A major exhibition touring Europe argues that modern artists who turned to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki Why did Vincent van ...

Includes discussion of the 1984 exhibition, "Primitivism" in 20th century art: affinity of the tribal and the modern, Museum of Modern Art, New York. https://siris ...

ONE of the world’s great repositories of primitive art is Harvard’s Peabody Museum—where few people except students of anthropology ever set foot. Just across the Charles River, the Boston Museum of ...