Anumber of New York museum exhibitions this fall focus on aspects of Modernism. Picasso, without whom modern art — if it had survived at all — would have taken an entirely different path, is central ...

The Art of Music from The Baltimore Museum of Art (Dec. 9 to Feb. 4) celebrates the influence of music on artists across various cultures and throughout time. This unity of the arts is the result of ...

When Edouard Manet exhibited Olympia, a painting of a prostitute, at the Paris Salon in 1865, everyone was shocked, even his friend the novelist Emile Zola. It was assumed that a naked woman needed to ...