What is art? How do we define art? What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we ...

I’ve been teaching about art for a very long time. But despite all those years in the classroom, my attempt at giving an ...

One of the easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions ...

Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...

Even before they argue about “Contemporary Art”, the survey respondents are all at pains to come up with a succinct definition of the word “contemporary” or its local equivalents. Li Xianting does not ...

When does an image made by a researcher for scientific purposes become art — if at all? Over the ages, the beauty of scientific images has been widely recognized. Reading Robert Hooke's Micrographia ...

This question immediately brings up a whole host of other questions. Almost anything can constitute art in this day and age. One need only look as far as Mark Rothko to see this. His pieces are ...