It starts with Adam—aka—It's arts with Adam
A blog that draws on pop culture and everyday life to deep-dive into and demystify art history, theory and criticism.
Artspeak is the term used for writing about art that is particularly jargon-ridden, turgid, complex, and obscure.
One way of arriving at a better understanding of Romanticism is through the way they approached the image.
It doesn't take much to see that the line between fashion and art has rapidly begun to collapse in the last two decades.
The question that is asked daily by experts and non-experts alike is why is one work of art worth a million dollars and another ten million and another 150 million?
What were the beginnings of the fashion model, and how did she enter into public consciousness?
The art connoisseur, the 'one who knows', is still with us today and usually has university degrees and works for a wealthy private collector or an auction house.
While we always assume that art is made in the name of higher causes, it still maintains a complex and sometimes intimate relationship with money.
A widely held prejudice in art is that interactivity in art is by-and-large a good thing.
Have you ever looked at Outsider Art and felt a bit queasy and asked yourself what all the fuss is about?
The Psychology of Cosplay
Cosplay (‘costume play’) communities, and psychology underpinning them, is one based on numerous levels of non-reality and disavowal.
NFTs—non-fungible tokens—promise a new way to own art and are yet another step in the already troubled debate about what we call original and what we call a copy… But in the age of memes and digital reproduction, should we even try to salvage the idea of the original? And then there’s the other old chestnut of art’s commodity status. We'll discuss these ideas alongside two twentieth-century philosophers: Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno.
Monet and his circle of Impressionist artists are perhaps the most loved group of artists of any time, spanning many nationalities, not limited to Western taste.
Fashion continues to have an ambivalent role in the public consciousness: it can be seen as frivolous and a vehicle for the rich and glamorous to flaunt what they have.
Hyperreal sculpture is striking stuff, and it is hard not to find anyone who does not find it compelling and fascinating if only for the simulation of life and the sheer skill and effort devoted to it.
'Avant-garde' is a term that is applied to modern art and artists who were ahead of their time and who pushed the boundaries of content, taste, and style.
For over twenty years, many critics, bloggers, artists, and more have complained that art has lost its edge.
The organization of space within painting has undergone revolutionary developments: the first is with one-point perspective in the Renaissance, the second is with Cubism.
Museums are something we take for granted when we want to view art, yet they have only really been with us since the end of the eighteenth-century.
The French poststructuralists had a sizeable and lasting effect on philosophy in the final decades of the twentieth century and continue to be referenced today.
It is curious how conventional annals of art history do not engage much with the subject of pleasure: works about pleasure and the pleasure taken in them.
This new phenomenon begs the question: what have smartphones done to photography, or more fundamentally, how we look at ourselves and our world?
What Is Global Curating
Global art is art subject to what can be understood according to a discernible grab-bag of national attributes.