SAN FRANCISCO — Almost every established artist makes a kind of wager hinging on style. What they are “betting,” crudely put, is that their particular mode of looking at the world is unusually charged ...

An Art Deco icon, a woman dandy and Madonna’s favourite painter. Tamara de Lempicka’s legacy is very much alive, trespassing the borders of art history and philosophy, boldly entering into fashion, ...

IF THERE is one painting which gives the clearest insight into Tamara de Lempicka's life and work, it is her Self Portrait in the Green Bugatti . It was completed in 1925 when she was at the height of ...

Throughout the 1920s and '30s, the clean, sinuous lines, swooping curves and strong colors of Art Deco flourished in buildings, public works, fashion, film, jewelry and everyday objects. Here are five ...

Art deco paintings have been commissioned from a local artist to brighten up the former Astoria cinema site in Brighton. The paintings feature local landmarks in the retro-style of 1930s posters and ...

Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers and break ...

With more and more Megaplex movie theaters boasting stadium seating, 3D vision and even the occasional reclining chair, the age of art house theaters appears to be coming to a close. Yet there is an ...

In Paris in 1925, the French government initiated its ambitious International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts with one specific goal – to showcase and celebrate the excellence of ...

Women’s emancipation was in full swing at the beginning of the twentieth century and had a considerable influence on fashion. The interwar period saw the emergence of the liberated woman, in search of ...