Models wearing denim from Dont Fret's series PLAUSABLE DENIM-ABILITY, a part of Wears and Articles. Credit: Courtesy Print & Object A pair of denim jeans enhanced by acrylic paint, aerosol spray paint ...

Books Environment and Object and Their Role in Recent African Art Despite being the exhibition catalogue of an exhibition that originated at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at ...

The tension between design and art derives from the utility ascribed to the former vying with the elusiveness that characterizes the latter. In terms of the art market, to the extent that we praise ...

Sculpture sure ain't what it used to be. The days when statuary was a set, rigid thing with but a single, clear meaning -- Heroism! Sorrow! Love! -- are gone. In its place? Work like the assemblages ...

Go to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles right now and you can see one of the most merciless cultural products of the 1960s, Carl Andre’s 6 x 6 Den Haag Steel Lock, a mat ...

In the early 20th century, Marcel Duchamp stirred up controversy in the art world by displaying what he termed “readymade” art — everyday objects, like the urinal in his famous Fountain, displayed ...

Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art? -- Western tradition -- Artistic impulse -- Chronology -- Why is art valued? -- Material value -- Intrinsic value -- Religious value -- Nationalistic ...

The nuances of the word “working” in the title of the Cooley Gallery’s new exhibition, Working History: African American Objects, reveal themselves gradually. These are “working” histories in that ...

Take a small detour from the community path near Magoun Square and you may stumble upon “The Emerald City” — an intricate art installation made out of green glass, metal and other materials. This ...

The Brower Center takes its name from environmentalist David Brower, and it aims to foster environmental action through art. Each year, the Center hosts the “Art/Act” exhibition series in three parts.

--CHM copy 39088020156113 purchased from the CHM Endowment. "The established narrative of art history is traditionally narrated through national or cultural lenses that focus on specific artistic ...