Cubism

Douglas Cooper – a complex character with a passion for Cubism

31 May 2025 9:00 am

Prone to paranoia and tantrums, the critic and collector made many enemies, but his firsthand knowledge of Léger, Picasso and Braque also won the admiration of art historians

The two young women who blazed a trail for modernism in Ireland

3 May 2025 9:00 am

In 1921, the sternly abstract cubist Albert Gleizes opened the door of his Parisian apartment to two young women in…

The first patrons of Modernism deserve much sympathy and respect

25 September 2021 9:00 am

If Modernism is a jungle, how do you navigate a path through its thickets? Some explorers — Peter Gay and…

‘Moonrise and Pale Dancer’ by Derek Hyatt

The man who brought Cubism to New York

20 September 2014 9:00 am

The American Jewish artist Max Weber (1881–1961) was born in Belostok in Russia (now Bialystok in Poland), and although he…

Fernand Léger ‘s ‘The City’, 1919

The tubular joys of Fernand Léger

22 March 2014 9:00 am

In 1914 Fernand Léger gave a lecture about modern art. By then recognised as a leading Cubist artist, he had…

A book on Art Deco that's a work of art in itself — but where's the Savoy, Claridge's and the Oxo Tower? 

30 November 2013 9:00 am

Over the past 45 years, there have been two distinct and divergent approaches to Art Deco. One of them —…