FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

Often today in art galleries and hotels or even in wall art one would find the rise of abstract art. While at first glance these are just an amalgamation of colours spread over the canvas without any ...

In 1961, Piero Manzoni created his most famous art work—ninety small, sealed tins, titled “Artist’s Shit.” Its creation was said to be prompted by Manzoni’s father, who owned a canning factory, ...

Working its way through Europe this summer is one of the most explosive and controversial art shows in decades. Called “The New American Painting” and financed by the International Council at ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

To Plato, art was imitation of nature, but in the 19th century, photography took over that function, and in the 20th, abstract art overturned the whole notion that art was about representation. And ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

Ruth Simbao receives funding from the South African National Research Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr David Nthubu Koloane, who was born in South Africa in 1938, was an ...

When someone who was once at the helm of MoMA promises to confront our uncertainties about the last five decades When someone who was once at the helm of MoMA promises to confront our uncertainties ...