A recent exhibition at Bard College that included “huge images of body parts -- yes, those body parts -- floating on the walls of a darkened room,” and “videos of men doing things -- yes, those things ...

In 1917, the Metropolitan Museum of Art received a stunning gift: a portrait by the French Neoclassical master Jacques-Louis David. The 1801 painting, titled Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d’Ognes ...

Great art penetrates, for better or worse. It gets “inside” and lingers there; it excites emotions, makes you feel elated, vulnerable, mortal. If great art penetrates, does aesthetic experience entail ...

Art Basel Miami Beach in November, 2022. (graphic Nancy Zastudil/Hyperallergic, original photo Valentina Di Liscia) I don’t make artwork to sell, and I’m starting to feel invisible. The media only ...

I’ve heard the words, “but a child can do it,” uttered many times in museums. It’s the immediate response for many people when they view a work of abstract art, particularly work by Picasso. In fact, ...

Art, however, counters this by insisting on presence. Rather than chase ephemeral shocks, art fosters the subject’s co-participation in an event that yields intangible synergy. By refusing to reduce ...

Carsten Holler's slides installed in the Tate's Turbine Hall (image via flickr.com/Leeks) (click to enlarge) Ossian Ward has a feature in Art in America this month ...

For the 100 years it’s been in operation, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio has been a repository for artwork by American masters, from preeminent 19th-century painters like ...

Art by men, particularly white men, still dominates collections and commands the highest prices. And despite the vigorous corrective efforts of the second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s, there’s ...