You might not know how they work, but there’s a good chance you’ve heard about non-fungible tokens or NFTs. They became extremely popular in 2021 when a digital artist named Beeple sold one online for ...

Assuming that the emergence of consciousness in artificial minds is possible, those minds will feel the urge to create art. But will we be able to understand it? To answer this question, we need to ...

In around 43,000 BC, someone on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi drew a warty pig on the wall of a cave. Little did they know that 45,000 years later this painting would be prized as the oldest known ...

The best books about art expand not only what we know but also how we see, sharpening our awareness of the forces that shape artistic production across time.

At Asia Society in New York last Wednesday, Vishakha N. Desai, and artists Arahmaiani, and Xu Bing participated in a panel moderated by Michelle Yun to discuss the evolution of an increasingly ...

Why should art matter to you?: A message to art beginners -- Introduction : What is art? -- Why is art made?: The purposes of art: a brief overview from A to Z -- Part I. Making art : Artists and ...

This post was co-authored by Dr. Pablo P. L. Tinio, Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. Art Seeking Understanding workshop, Designing for ...

Marina Zurkow, production still from “Mesocosm (Wink, TX)” (2012) (image courtesy the artist and bitforms gallery) Watching the final two months of 2016 play out politically made me question so many ...