Below is a shortlist of words that we feel have endured overexposure, and even abuse, in the art world in 2016. The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletter.

There’s a science and art to picking a starting word when you play Wordle. One computer analysis has suggested that CRANE is the best starter; another landed on SALET. The New York Times did its ...

The best word ever -- according to deep lexicographical research, science, taste, and common sense -- is this: diphthong. Ted McCagg McCagg got the idea for the project, he told me, while he was ...

Don’t get me wrong. If you want to guess the ‘best’ word each and every time, or if you’re just superstitious to the point where you always use the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 when you ...

Word of mouth is the best advertising for a movie, or any piece of art, really. It means that the product reached and touched people, and that they gladly recommend it to others.

Quickly, one participant introduced the word “gwilt” – a kind of double-bind caused by feeling guilty about watering house plants during the drought. That got the ball rolling. After a wide-ranging ...

Artnet News team writers pick their favorite art books, from Monet's Garden to Giacometti's studio and Warhol's diaries.

In the exhibition “Light Line,” the best work is made of phrases on an L.E.D. spiral, which add up to a single epic poem that is a gift to art history.