David Rockefeller, a philanthropist who donated significant works to the Museum of Modern Art and who, in his years as chairman and then honorary chairman of its board, dramatically enlarged…
From the founding of the Louvre in 1793 to the emergence of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles in 2012 to the start in 2013 of GCC, a collective focusing on contemporary Gulf culture, this…
Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort
The modernist masterpieces of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov were nationalized by the Bolsheviks and are now on view in a celebrated and controversial exhibition at London's Royal Academy. The…
“In the history of art, as in more materialistic matters, money talks vividly,” Alfred H. Barr Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s founding director, wrote in 1929. “Let us not be ashamed…