On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled "In Search of the Miraculous". The damaged boat was...

The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. The essays in this volume include a new analysis of Gr...

In 1968, Chicago made headlines for the ferocity of its police response to protesters at the Democratic National Convention, prompting outrage in the art world. Some artists pulled their shows from the city and called for a boycott until the mayor le...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his mo...

In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, however, replicas and multiples have c...

Not for sale in Poland! One of Poland's most important and independent postwar artists, Andrzej Wroblewski (1927-1957) in his short life created his own highly individual, suggestive, and prolific form of abstract and figurative painting that conti...

A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris Salcedo evoke the significance of bearing witness and...

This catalogue was published on the occasion of Varda Caivano's exhibition The Density of the Actions, February 22 – April 19, 2015 at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. The book features texts by Barry Schwabsky, Paula van den B...

Iconoclast and artist Pope. L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze.   His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and political...

For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the material and conceptual possibilities of photography".Diary/Landscape" – the first mature body of work by this important contemporary artist – set the framework for his subsequent invest...