William L. Carqueville, "Lippincott's, April" (1895), 19 x 12 7/16 inches, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Deceptively niche as it ...

If you’ve wandered through the International Terminal Main Hall Departures Lobby at SFO this month, you may have noticed SFO Museum’s newest exhibit, The Allure of Art Nouveau: 1890–1914. It focuses ...

Art Nouveau was born in reaction to a lack of creativity in the decorative arts during the latter half of the 19th century. Characterised by its floral motifs, dark outlines and solid colours, the ...

Organic, sinuous lines, with vines snaking around stylized letters, ethereal women with flowing tresses, and botanical borders characterize the style of Art Nouveau, the enduringly popular movement ...

When Vancouver Opera had to move in the early 1980s, they downsized by throwing out old promotional material. “I thought ‘they can’t go in the garbage,’ so I fished them out, put them in the trunk of ...

Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) wasn’t just an artist. He was a freemason on a mission to help humanity ascend. The Czech father of French Art Nouveau firmly believed that beauty could spark spiritual ...