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A century ago, a mob of anti-modernist art students condemned Henri Matisse to death in a mock trial after seeing his paintings.

Roger Kimball on “Delacroix: The Late Work,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In 1913, a culture war broke out over an exhibition of works by Picasso, Duchamp and other Europeans at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The title of this book—Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America—is a misnomer, because it implies that the struggle to bring modern art to America was Picasso’s. But as this book demonstrates more poignantly than perhaps any other, the artist did virtually nothing himself to promote or in other ways encourage the advancement of his work in the United States. In fact, he was at best indifferent.

Floral works are a highlight in the telling of The Whitney's collection transition from focusing on realism to more abstraction in its holdings of early American Modernism. The Whitney Museum of American Art now is showing At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, an exhibition of over sixty works by more than forty-five artists that highlights the complexity of American art produced between 1900 and 1930. The exhibition showcases how American artists responded ...