For an example of this complicated process, look no further than the elusive relationship between Modern and contemporary art. Although often used interchangeably, they are not the same.

Of more than 200 listed shows and installations, three-quarters were modern and contemporary art. Of that, art made since 1945 accounted for considerably more than half. Art from the other 2,922 ...

An earlier version of this article misstated the number of years Sheena Wagstaff served as top curator of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was 10, not 20.

In curator Michael Darling's suite of modern and contemporary galleries, the museum -- for the first time -- tries to create something close to a narrative history of art in our time. The closer ...

As Tate Modern in London celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, the artist Michael Craig-Martin recalls how the UK’s “cathedral to contemporary art” was born. “Who could have imagined ...

Swiss contemporary and modern art group Hauser & Wirth was founded in Zurich in the 1990s but has since expanded across the globe representing artists and their estates at other destinations.

The opening is well-deserved, as it will mark the culmination of a nearly 20-year campaign to build a dedicated home for the display of contemporary art. Founded in 2005, MSN Warsaw primarily ...

Jill Ahlberg Yohe, a former longtime curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is the CAT’s curator of modern and contemporary art, and Linnea Seidling, an art and glass historian who has ...