Picasso, Braque and Gris learned new tricks from old masters of optical illusion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, they shatter modern art to pieces. By Jason Farago Paris, and the year ...

Presenting a selection of works that span Cubism’s birth in 20th century Paris to today, the show investigates the movement’s beginnings and the lasting impact it had on subsequent generations of ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York’s largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged ...

“It is a curious fact,” writes Alan Bowness, “that there has never before been a major Cubist exhibition in London.” Mr. Bowness, the director of the Tate Gallery, has lately set out to rectify this ...

Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying that Cubism paved the way for dozens of subsequent modern art movements, from Purism and Precisionism to Surrealism, and continues to inform abstraction in art ...

I recall hearing, years ago, that when the ambitious survey exhibition “Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism” was first proposed to the board of the Museum of Modern Art, one trustee protested what ...

GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis THIS compact ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cosmetics heir and art collector Leonard A. Lauder said on Tuesday the collection of 81 Cubist masterpieces he has donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will update the museum ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Of all the things a painter might depict, a mirror is one of ...

Societal transformations often spark controversy. In the early 1900s, a new movement in art — derisively called “cubism” for the bizarre cubes the art supposedly depicted — sparked backlash. In 1913, ...

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 ...