The complexity of the painterly array amplifies the simple text with a chilling query by writer and artist Harland Miller. The imagery and text on an amphora, a tall ancient Greek or Roman jar ...

Modern artists, from about the time of the impressionists, lost interest in allegories and personifications. They came to despise moral and religious rhetoric, which they saw as exhausted ...

Jeff Koons is one of America’s most popular contemporary artists. His Neo-Pop aesthetics and wry appropriations of consumer objects, express a reverence for popular culture. “I try to create work that ...

The prize, now in its 22nd year, will be the subject of a group show in Ottawa this autumn, and the winner will be revealed ...

Top 15 Black-American artists and their impact ... In 1981, Basquiat’s first major exhibition in the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center’s “New Work/New Wave” show transitioned him from street ...

Bluegrass is creeping its way into contemporary folk and country music in the way artists reinterpret ... of complete metamorphosis. Despite popular opinion, change is the true nature of bluegrass ...

Long gone are the days when to stage an exhibition of contemporary art was always to lose money because attendance would be slight (the money would be made up with a popular show of, say ...