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.

The gaze is a form of looking that is not passive but active, searching and desiring.

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?

We tend to take art criticism and art critics for granted, as if they were as old as time itself. But it may surprise that art criticism is a relatively recent phenomenon.

An important dimension of contemporary art is the critique of the museum.

Today, bodybuilding is an accepted and highly popular sport. This wasn’t always the case.

Many people seem to be using the words "curate" and "curator" these days.

In many respects, cosplay is a continuation of dressing-up and masquerade that had become popular since the sixteenth century.