The best books about art expand not only what we know but also how we see, sharpening our awareness of the forces that shape artistic production across time.

In around 43,000 BC, someone on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi drew a warty pig on the wall of a cave. Little did they know that 45,000 years later this painting would be prized as the oldest known ...

You might not know how they work, but there’s a good chance you’ve heard about non-fungible tokens or NFTs. They became extremely popular in 2021 when a digital artist named Beeple sold one online for ...

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Why should art matter to you?: A message to art beginners -- Introduction : What is art? -- Why is art made?: The purposes of art: a brief overview from A to Z -- Part I. Making art : Artists and ...

This post was co-authored by Dr. Pablo P. L. Tinio, Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. Art Seeking Understanding workshop, Designing for ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. As we enter 2024, the art world is possibly entering its ...

In a recently published study on the effects of visual art on emotions, interest and social media engagement, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Life Science Communications ...

Marina Zurkow, production still from “Mesocosm (Wink, TX)” (2012) (image courtesy the artist and bitforms gallery) Watching the final two months of 2016 play out politically made me question so many ...