Such juxtapositions make the installation a snapshot of a museum responding to social upheavals of the past year, including the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the reckoning sparked by continuing ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is celebrating “the visual and sonic output of the American South.” The MCA’s “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Even people who don’t know art know Alexander Calder’s art. Forever ...

Since about the 1970s, a new and largely, what the historian Jeffrey Shandler terms, a “post-vernacular Yiddish culture” has started to develop in many, often unexpected, locales around the world.

An ancient practice that first came to be around AD 105 in China, printmaking’s preciousness is perhaps hard to grasp in a world where image reproduction and sharing are not rare or difficult to ...

Women in art, both as a compositional motif and as creators, is an expansive field in the history of art. Societal and cultural perceptions of women often shape their representation—from objects of ...

My takeaway from the opening of “New Humans: Memories of the Future” is that the project of “contemporary art” may be ending. Sorry, that’s a big statement ...

Contemporary art is worth nearly $2.7 billion in market turnover and accounts for a staggering 15% of the global art market. When it comes to artwork of the present day and relatively recent past, it ...