The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...

Remember when boredom was a thing? No? That’s because we killed it. We have absolutely no tolerance for even one second of unoccupied time.

Lou Fine's Rex Dexter cover for Mystery Men Comics #2 is an early example from an artist who helped define science fiction ...

Making art served many purposes. Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and author of Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost ...

How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...

Throughout history, art has been a catalyst for social change. In the same way that music fueled the anti-apartheid movement and murals brought visibility to feminist struggles, creative activism is ...

What do you do when you have amassed enough wealth and a lot of art? You share it with the world. Joining a growing league of ...

Amitav Ghosh's recently released collection, Wild Fictions, features essays written over the last 25 years, in which he bears ...

With more dicey systems and crew management Citizen Sleeper 2 risks losing some of its storytelling heart, even if it remains ...

Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.

Detail from Rembrandt van Rijns painting Two African Men. Sailko/The Mauritshuis/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The so-called ...

I ask nothing better than that all reviewers, for ever, and everywhere, should call me a highbrow. I will do my best to ...