Apr 6, 2005 · THE MUSEUM LUDWIG in Cologne and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona recently put their American counterparts to shame by co-organizing the first major exhibition of George Brecht’s work in…

Nov 25, 2024 · The organizers of Frieze Los Angeles have announced the galleries expected to participate in the event’s sixth iteration, from February 23–26, 2025.

Nov 12, 2024 · Billionaire Ken Griffin announced that he will donate $10 million to the Pérez Art Museum in Miami. The gift is one of the largest ever received by the museum, and arrives after Florida governor Ron DeSantis cut 100 percent of state funding—totaling $32 million—for the arts.

Gilbert & George’s latest work seems like a resurrection of the demons of Protestant paranoia within the descent of contemporary culture. Luther fought his demons by countering obscenity with obscenity. Gilbert & George’s fleurs du mal are only obscene in the sense that they are concentrated exorcisms of social evil and obscenity.

THIS LETTER MARKS THE beginning of one of the greatest periods of Italian cinema’s history in the international market. Written by Baron Alberto Fassini, director of the Rome film company Cines, it invited the American distributor George Kleine to make a bid for the exhibition of Fassini’s movies in the United States, and Kleine responded with enthusiasm, immediately …

Nov 16, 2024 · Originating in China, woodblock printing in Japan occurred for the first known time during the latter part of the eighth century, when Empress Shōtoku commissioned the reproduction and dissemination of daranis, or Buddhist sutras.

Stephanie O’Rourke is senior lecturer in art history at the Uni­versity of St. Andrews, Scotland, where she focuses on nineteenth-century art, resource extraction, and scientific knowledge production.

Jun 29, 1973 · It has become a classic of humanist thought. Its author, George Kubler, addresses himself with uncommon grace and lucidity to the problems of constructing accurate historical narratives out of the tangled and often incomplete residue of human culture.

C.N.’s never stated if she hopes that bringing such a sculptural form to time’s returns—swerving to reckon not only with a history of carceral and disciplinary structures of entertainment (lynching, freak shows, public shaming) but also with Fried’s vexed anti-theatrical milestone—could train those born with or without eyes how to see ...

Dec 16, 2024 · Robert Smithson ’s Spiral Jetty, 1970, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. Located at Rozel Point peninsula on the northeastern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, the work is considered one of the world’s most iconic examples of Land art and comprises six thousand tons of locally sourced black basalt rocks and earth formed into a 1,500-foot …