Konstantin Akinsha, a top curator and art historian of Russian and Ukrainian art, said he believes 14 artworks attributed to Russian and Ukrainian modernists in the collection of the Palazzo de Nordis ...

Bowdoin College Museum of Art becomes first American museum to acquire a painting by Alejandro Mario Yllanes. Originally trained in the law, Yllanes turned to a career in the fine arts to further his ...

Davyd Burliuk, "Carousel" (1921), oil on canvas, ~13 x 18 inches (33 x 45.5 cm); National Art Museum of Ukraine (© The Burliuk Foundation) LONDON — The story of a nation’s origins can be so much ...

There certainly are a great number of noteworthy, deeply original paintings to see in Venice. You can find what I have identified elsewhere in COUNTERPUNCH as the first modernist work, Giorgione’s ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

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 ...