In the early 20th century, cubism seemed difficult and wild, and it was a favourite target of conservatives. Juan Gris, Fantômas, 1915, National Gallery of Art. Wikimedia Commons .

The exhibition: “Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, jointly organized by Emily Braun, curator of the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, and Elizabeth ...

Instead, After Cubism is wide-ranging, showcasing 120 paintings, prints, drawings and photographs from the DIA’s permanent collection that illustrate how the landscape of modern art changed in ...

Above: Courtesy Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection/ARS, NY/ADAGP, Paris. Peter Schjeldahl was The New Yorker’s longtime art critic until his death, in 2022, at the age of eighty.

This is the thing about Cubism. While, to paraphrase one eminent art historian, Cubism altered Western painting to a degree unparalleled since the Renaissance, it remains – as the Pompidou’s ...