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 ...

Lawrence Weiner's "A RUBBER BALL THROWN ON THE SEA, Cat. No. 146" is displayed at the Hirshhorn Museum in blue, sans-serif lettering. Weiner was open to the seven words being produced in any color, ...

Art in the Twenty-First Century is the longest running broadcast program bringing contemporary art directly to viewers like you. On October 17th, Art21's acclaimed broadcast series returns to PBS with ...

Art, what for? What's it all about? : from idea to artwork -- Bringing you up to speed. How did we get here? : contemporary before contemporary -- Contemporary. What makes it so contemporary? : Tino ...

You might know contemporary artist Damien Hirst as the edgy brains behind "For the Love of God," a $100 million platinum-and-diamond skull. Or perhaps you know him for the modestly titled "The ...

Contemporary art inside out -- Museums: modern/contemporary -- Remodernizing Manhattan -- Sublime-on-Hudson: Dia : Beacon now -- SensationSaatchi -- Contemporizing ...

Cover of Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns featuring Agnes Pelton's "Sand Storm" (1929) (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) Religion influenced modern art's development far more than most ...

Shakir Hassan Al Said, 'Letters,' 1961. Oil, gesso, cotton, linen canvas, 94.2 cm x 82 cm x 2.5 cm. At first glance, it would be difficult to discern this artwork as coming from Arab origins, and not ...