To label art “dangerous” has signaled many things: It’s bad for your brain, bad for your body, bad for your soul, transgressive, subversive, fun, shocking, exciting, enticing, hateful.

It’s a quotation attributed to the late great American composer, musician and bandleader, Duke Ellington. “Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you ...

Abramović changed culture with her art and is still creating a storm. She tells Lillian Crawford about breaking taboos, and how some of her work could no longer be performed.

“Oh my gosh!” she says, entering the glass-ceilinged indoor courtyard filled with light. “I wish Ben had come here,” she says, referring to her fiance, art curator and writer Ben Shattuck.

After images by photographer Sally Mann were removed from a Texas museum, the state is now looking at legislation that could penalize museums for displaying “certain obscene or harmful material ...

If there is one artist who has brought performance into the artistic mainstream, it is Marina Abramovic. For more than 50 years, since the beginning of her career in Belgrade in the early 1970s ...

Another year, another luxury art auction that sells off some gimmicky work for stupid amounts of money—and another crypto (con) artist at one end of the process. Late last month, an infamous 5 ...

Sunburn tattoo art is the latest and most dangerous fashion trend hitting social media. 24/7 Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Welcome, Mickey ...

Art therapy is no more dangerous than arranging flowers. It's a growing practice—one that is, sadly, already licensed in some form by 12 other states—that incorporates psychotherapy with ...

Fine art is seeing an influx of digital replication, as well. For $250,000, anyone can purchase the Relievo collection, a grouping of nine 3D-printed Van Gogh remakes developed by the Van Gogh ...