It’s the idea behind a work of art that makes it “art, ” so say experts in describing why some outrageous stuff gets applause ...

In the 1940s, while Brazil's cultural establishment remained skeptical of modernism, Bittencourt founded the Museu de Arte ...

The sculpture was also inspired by the way Marcel Duchamp and other Dada artists manipulated found objects in the early 20th century as a deliberately absurd form of protest against World War I.

among them paintings by Salvador Dali and Henri Matisse and sculptures by Marcel Duchamp. The 2,000-piece collection, on display on the fourth and fifth floors on the 48-year-old multicultural ...

For clues about how this push may play out, look to “The Puritan” — the famous bronze statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens — and the ninth great-grandfather of The Times’ art critic.

“Abstraction is not a…simplified way of thinking: it’s a leap—a leap into a dimension that cannot otherwise be understood,” says Haegue Yang, whose multimedia installations and sculptures explore a ...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, haunting images. By Clay Risen Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ...

2025 is the right year to directly inquire about Duchamp’s significance in contemporary art. “Does Marcel Duchamp still matter and why?” was a question that many artists around the world ...

As far back as the 8th century B.C.E., the city of Corinth served as the beating heart of the Mediterranean’s commerce. Lechaion, its sea port, was at the very core of its success. A new study ...

She later moved on to neo-soul and R&B music as a solo artist with albums including “Black Diamond” in 1999 and “Mahogany Soul” in 2001. In a 2020 interview with “The Breakfast Club ...