Installation view of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015). Photo ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...