Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgment", Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of "Aesthetics at Large", is as relevant to the appreciation of art today as it was to the enjoyment of beautiful nature in 1790. Going against the grain of all aesthe...

Not for sale in Estonia! Ai Weiwei (born 1957) is recognized around the globe for his conceptual installations that generate dialogue between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese modes of thought and production. Ai's multifaceted installa...

Working primarily in wood, and specifically with basswood, cedarwood and sequoia, Aron Demetz uses this traditional material to highlight man's relationship to nature. This volume compares Demetz's works next to classical sculpture, opening a fascina...

Aby Warburg's "Mnemosyne Atlas" (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminat...

Although we know him best as a visual artist and filmmaker, Andy Warhol was also a publisher. Distributing his own books and magazines, as well as contributing to those of others, Warhol found publishing to be one of his greatest pleasures, largely b...

For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand... well, people here...

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked – until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science an...

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answ...

Not for sale in Estonia! For more than 50 years, American conceptualist Mel Bochner (born 1940) has been shaping dialogs between art and language through exhibition concepts, paintings and sculptures that embrace systems and structures to reveal th...