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This week, our Lost (and Found) series features African American abstract artist Jack Whitten, who is celebrated for his innovative painting…

Installation art can best be thought of as three-dimensional works that aim to transform the audience’s perception of space.

Louise Bourgeois was a French artist known for her large-scale sculptures and installation art, exploring themes of loneliness, jealousy, anger and…

In 1983, artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude completed Surrounded Islands in Miami, Florida, surrounding 11 islands in the bay with luminous pink…

Artists have long explored the potential of the brushstroke as a vehicle to explore the medium of painting. Dive into the work of ten such artists.

In this edition of our Agents of Change series, we discuss the contribution the development of the silk screen made to the art world.

Norman Lewis was the only African American painter to be a member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists.

An article on Piero Manzoni and his life and experiences that led him to create the prolific Merda d'artista, 'Artist's Shit'

Nude photography has been a genre of fine art photography since the mid-19th century: explore the work and controversy of 10 nude photography…

Leonora Carrington, a British-born Surrealist painter and writer, is fondly remembered in Mexico, her adopted home, for her folkloric artworks.

The Harlem Renaissance was an African American art movement spanning visual art, music, theatre and literature, flourishing in Harlem in the '20s and…

Tamara de Lempicka rendered the wealth, excess, and glamorous comercialism of the roaring '20s in an art deco style uniquely her own.

Exploring the monochrome: Simple yet complex, paintings made with only one colour or hue have been a staple of the avant-garde for more than 100…

In this edition of our article series "Agents of Change," we explore the immense effect the discovery of the Camera Obscura had on the art world.

Rose Wylie is a British painter known for her large paintings on unprimed canvas. She got her big break in her 70s, and she's nowhere near slowing…

Educator and artist John Baldessari combined photography, painting, and text to become “arguably America’s most influential Conceptual artist.”

Sergei Eisenstein was a world-renowned theorist and filmmaker that is best known for his use of montage and his film Battleship Potemkin.

Ruth Asawa was a Japanese-American artist who is best known for her hanging wire sculptures. Since 2017, she has been receiving a new wave of…

What will this and future years to come look like in the art industry? Read our predictions of evolution and revolution.

Does Maurizio Cattelan know what he's responsible for? William Pym investigates the ideology of one of the great iconoclasts.