Theory of Art

How have artists responded to our market-driven, tech-enabled culture of speed? Viewing Velocities explores a contemporary art scene caught in the ...

Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the presentI am the supercommunity, and you are o...

As I see it, creativity includes things like opening a hotel in Kabul, explained Alighiero Boetti, and he went on to realize this plan in 1971 on h...

'If we want to achieve a different society where the principle of money operates equitably, if we want to abolish the power money has developed ove...

Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibl...

Among the most compelling artists in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-Americans Komar and Melamid used humor and irony to lambaste Soviet...

'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhila...

Land Art and Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park highlights regenerative artworks that respond to this pivotal moment in human his...

From prose and presentations to reflections and conversations, this reader offers unprecendented access into nearly fifty years of Phyllida Barlow'...

In this innovative anthology, Angela Lord presents a unique series of commentaries on art, aesthetics and colour by three of western cultures great...

Art is theft, Picasso once proclaimed, and much of the best and most original new art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft.  Parado...

'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. Bu...

The American art critic Arthur Danto (19242013) spent his entire life in pursuit of the essence of art. Influenced by Nietzsche, Hegel, and Schopen...