Art History

John Ruskin was an influential English art critic and social thinker of the Victorian era, who famously argued that the principal concern of the ar...

The categorization of substances as luxury items, drugs, pharmaceuticals, hormones, or doping agents says a lot about our society and the ways it i...

Giambologna (1529 1606) is regarded as the most important European sculptor between Michelangelo and Bernini. How did he achieve this status? This...

The anniversary publication Ars Electronica 1979 2019 offers a look back at the development of the project, which has been focusing since the begi...

Along with fellow performance artist Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming is widely considered one of China''s most innovative artists. He took up performance ar...

Ally brings together three artist personalities who are all outstanding in their fields: the sculptor and photographer Janine Antoni and the danc...

In her series of images Monkey Business the artist Beate Passow portrays a mysterious fairy - tale world of political dimensions. The black and w...

Alfred Haberpointner (*1966 in Salzburg) is a sculptor of international repute. He became famous with his wooden sculptures, and he has subsequentl...

Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country complements the artists first major M useum exhibition in the U.S. and offers an in - depth introduction ...

The 300th birthday of Empress Maria Theresia provides an opportunity to examine her outstanding interest in the fine arts. At the invitation of the...

Uta Reinhardts pictorial creations invite a wide range of interpretations. Human and animal chimeras encounter each other as in an alliance and ...

Like many great artists, Heinz Mack also found inspiration in African art. His artistic expeditions into the African desert and his encounters wi...

Uninterrupted Fugue offers a selection of critical essays about the art of Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata, covering 40 years of his career. Writ...

Can You Dig It?Digitaleven before this word signified research-based proces-sing, its original meaning referred to the fingers. The same goes for t...

For around two decades the works of Sven Drühl have always referred to works of art by other artists. They are pictures about picturesabstractions ...

The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888 1967) was not only a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, but he also left an ext...