PASADENA, Calif. — The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400-1750), a new exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, tackles a sweeping subject in just three rooms. Contemplating sacred and ...

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 ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...