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This year's Art Basel Miami Beach is back and in full force. Here are eight booths we recommend checking out.

Vladimir Georgievitsch Bechteev‘s “Leda und der Schwan“ has not been shown in public since 1914. Now that the impressive painting surfa

Chemnitz: Kulturstiftung fördert Expressionismus-Schau

Kandinsky is one of several renowned artists whose work is thought to have been inspired by his time trodding the paths of Bavarian countryside in the early 20th century. Photo: dpa Its one of those quandaries that many summer visitors to Munich, Germany face: How best to balance their precious time between the Bavarian capital with all its cultural attractions, against some sightseeing in the gorgeously beautiful countryside just beyond the city’s outskirts? Five art museums have banded toge...

Read an excerpt from Donna Stein's new memoir, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art."

Albertina Museum opens its largest-ever survey of the history of landscape painting Paul Klee, Country House near Fribourg, 1915. Watercolors and gold paint. The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Forberg Collection. VIENNA .- Surveying the past five centuries of landscape painting enables us to quite literally see how human identity has been transformed. Our own visual experience of these perspectives lets us perceive and feel the changes in human beings’ self-concept from generation to generation...

In the 19th article in a series on 20th-century artists who shaped Maltese modernism, Joseph Agius delves into the life and times of Frans Galea Sculptor Frans Galea (1945-1994) belongs to an elite group of Maltese sculptors that Malta lost at a relatively young age. Banda (1977) Edward Pirotta (1939-1968), Joseph M. Genuis (1934-1970) and Toni Pace (1930-1989) and Galea have all contributed considerably to the modernist development of Maltese 20th-century sculpture. Yet, their untimely demis...

Museo Nacional Thyssen‐Bornemisza features German Expressionist paintings George Grosz, Metrópolis, 1916-1917 (detail). Oil on canvas, 100 x 102 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid MADRID .- When in 1961 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen‐Bornemisza acquired Young Couple by Emil Nolde he initiated a change of direction in the Thyssen family’s collecting activities. While his father Henrich Thyssen had assembled a remarkable collection of Old Masters during the interwar period, between...

None Swiss cultural life shows strands of German, Italian, and French influence, among others, but its uniqueness is particularly apparent in its art and artists and its museums and other art venues. Here are just seven paintings from that milieu. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Interior of St. Bavo in Haarlem (1636) The Thirty Years�...