The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum shows 82 artworks by 70 artists, spanning some three centuries from the late 1700s to the present day.

And now we find ourselves wrangling again: Is art outside always outsider art? Or art at all? One camp believes nothing can be art if it doesn’t have a nice frame around it and a price tag on it.

Right now, at the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, on the Bluhm Family Terrace looking out over Millennium Park and skyscrapers along Michigan Avenue, there is nothing. No, no ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the ...

A good AI must be “fed” a curated dataset by human art historians to build up its knowledge of an artist’s style, and human art historians must interpret the results. Such was the case in ...

The art market is a barometer of taste (what is worth buying) and our museums are repositories of cultural memory (what is worth saving). Together, they determine and reinforce values and norms in ...

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