Contemporary artist Allison Smith's diverse creative practice critically engages with popular forms of historical reenactment through a variety of media, including sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and photography. Focusing on the handmade and performat...

"The Art of TOMORROW" presents an international selection of seventy-seven young artists, with four pages dedicated to each, who show great potential for the future. They were selected by three insiders from the art world: Laura Hoptman is curator in...

The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever si...

In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of "art for art's sake". This was attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E. M. Forster. It influence...

Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture,...

"American Moderns on Paper" presents a selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolours, pastels, and drawings by leading American modernists from the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned collection of American art. Works by Sloan, O'Keeffe, Hopper...

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism – of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse – has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic o...

Not for sale in Estonia! "This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been mark...

Not for sale in Estonia! Conceptual art veteran John Baldessari (born 1931) began making prints in the mid-1970s, and has placed printmaking at the center of his appropriative practice, in which found photographs of people are amended with colorful...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Torture of Women", Spero's epic, 14 panels, 125-foot-long collage work, fuses startling imagery from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten first-person testimonies of abuse – from ancient times through the pr...