Few artists among the Old Masters produced work as startlingly fresh to contemporary eyes as Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541–1614), a Greek transplant to the Iberian city of Toledo who’s better…
The story of performance art is as complicated as the category itself.
These days, nobody gives much thought to the idea of artistic practice fitting into an overriding narrative of historical progress. The current scene is liberating if shapeless, as artists work from
To call Gordon Parks a Renaissance man would be a massive understatement.
By the time the Second World War ended, in 1945, some 70–85 million people had died, and cities across Europe and Asia were left in ruins. Economies were devastated in countries around the…
Seeing Karla Knight’s art for the first the first time, you might think that her work was the product of an outsider artist who’d experienced a close encounter of the third kind. But you’d be…