The Arts and Crafts movement began just a few decades after the end of the Industrial Revolution, and it was characterized by a renaissance of quality craftsmanship and the use of natural materials.

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 ...

Winning a NASCAR race is one thing; polishing the trophy is quite another. Silver experts have taken a few laps around their own track to come up with something new: an alloy called Argentium Sterling ...

Upon walking past the curved walls of the first-floor hallways, visitors of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are greeted by slightly sequestered galleries featuring curious, unsettling, and vibrant ...

The Milwaukee Art Museum's newly refurbished modern art wing opens to the public March 14, after closing for renovations last September. The reimagined Bradley Wing of Modern Art traces the artists ...

A group of women artists in early 20th century Chicago exemplified the connection between the decorative arts and feminist movements in the United States and is the focus of a new book published by ...

Design for the modern world / Wendy Kaplan -- United Kingdom : origins and first flowering / Alan Crawford -- Germany : a new culture of things / Rüdiger Joppien -- Austria : idealism or realism / ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...