What’s in a name? Let’s start off with a clear contention. Street Art, as I see it, is a period. Period. It is today just one of the many sub-groups housed within the larger category of Art, a period ...

The Khalili collection: Japanese art exhibitions -- Foreword / Professor Nasser D. Khalili -- Introduction / Gregory Irvine -- Vincent van Gogh and Japan / Axel Rüger -- From Namban to Meiji: the ...

Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...

The generation to which I belong has a bad conscience. —Marc Bloch, 1940 The fall of France to Hitler’s army in the summer of 1940, besides marking a fateful turn in the military history of the Second ...

While some U.S. cities spend millions rebuilding the past after it has been destroyed (as witness, Williamsburg, Va.), others heedlessly continue to destroy a rich heritage of irreplaceable ...

AROE, GREY, Matt Dosa, Feldman Sisters and Remi Rough – artists from the UK, Ukraine and US who honed their skills in the urban art arena and have become a part of the contemporary art scene. AROE, ...

Asharq Al Awsat The Visual Arts Commission has announced "Bedayat: Beginnings of Saudi Art Movement"—a seminal exhibition that celebrates and documents the formative years of Saudi Arabia's art scene ...

As accidental adverts for art shows go, a giant pooch made of flowers is a crowd pleaser. Outside the Guggenheim Bilbao in northern Spain, Jeff Koons’ much-loved flower 1992 sculpture “Puppy,” shows ...

The defenders of Bridgeport’s Gothic-towered Walnut Wood mansion, designed in 1846 by famed Architect Alexander Jackson Davis (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.), resorted to politics, petitions, injunctions, ...