Currently on view at SMAC San Marco Art Centre in Venice, The Quantum Effect marks a century since the breakthroughs in ...

Xie Lei has been awarded the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp. He was selected from a shortlist composed of four artists including ...

Some of you art enthusiasts and literature lovers might already be familiar with the term “Avant-Garde”. Others may have seen it here and there, with the word looking a bit intimidating. Like many ...

The best business decision Emmanuel Radnitzky ever made was to call himself “Man Ray.” Two words, two syllables; one from earth, the other of heaven. The nomenclature wouldn’t have made a difference, ...

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee on a print of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and inscribed the work "L.H.O.O.Q." Spelled out in French these letters form a risqué pun: Elle a ...

In November, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million. For some, Comedian, as Maurizio Cattelan’s creation was known, was a clever work of genius. David Galperin, head of contemporary art ...

Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art celebrated its 15th birthday last week. The celebration took the form of a massive show which was to earlier Modern Museum shows as lightning to static electricity.

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

It's wintertime in New York City, and there's no better place to keep warm than at any one of the city's many fine museums and galleries. Already exhausted the permanent collections several times over ...

In a 1913 preview of the Autumn Salon in Paris, where Orphism was being touted as the hot thing in painting, the New York Times wrote: “Ordinary persons may take a long time to accept Orpheism [sic] ...