Piet Mondrian

The financial chickens came home to roost at the Museum of Contemporary Art a year ago, but on the eve of what's being dubbed "MOCA New," a 30th-anniversary celebration centering on the museum's biggest exhibition ever -- drawn almost entirely from its...

Can anyone guess which big-name in Baltimore showed up at an awards dinner Monday night sporting this fancy footwear? Hint: It's a man. And another hint: You usually see him barefoot. The socks with the Piet Mondrian color scheme were found on the feet...

Kenneth Price, a prolific Los Angeles artist whose work with glazed and painted clay transformed traditional ceramics while also expanding orthodox definitions of American and European sculpture, died early Friday at his home and studio in Taos, N.M. He...

Thieves broke into the largest art museum in Greece Monday and stole three priceless works of art-- including a Pablo Picasso painting. That painting, "Woman's Head," was presented to the Greek people in 1946 to commemorate their resistance against...

CALIPATRIA — Isaac Valenzuela likes art so much he boasted about one of his works to a former teacher. “That one’s mine,” Isaac, 10, told Carol Whitted, a retired third-grade teacher from Brawley. “I really like it a lot....

George Clooney said he is planning to make a movie about the art experts who landed at Normandy to rescue art looted by the Nazis....

Christopher Knight considers John McLaughlin's abstract paintings, slated for a museum retrospective, and Japan's abstract Mono-ha sculptures at Blum & Poe....

John McLaughlin (1898-1976) was the first great L.A. artist to emerge after World War II...

Kevin Bierbaum, a German-born American visual artist, will exhibit his work at Presentation College's Wein Gallery from June 1 to Aug. 12. According to a news release, Bierbaum was born in southern Germany in 1983. At age 7, he and his family immigrated...

A beautiful 1954 abstraction by John McLaughlin (1898-1976) sold Tuesday morning at a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in Hollywood. The buyer was not disclosed, but it's exactly the kind of work that would make the lackluster galleries for 20th century.......

Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who created a bold new dress code for women during the feminist revolution of the 1970s and helped launch the era of the celebrity designer with his jet-set lifestyle, died Sunday at 71. The designer died...