What is art? How do we define art? What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we ...

One of the easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions ...

Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...

It’s tempting to condescend to the three characters in Yasmina Reza’s play “Art” whose 15-year friendship almost comes undone when one of them buys an all-white abstract painting. After all, ...

When does an image made by a researcher for scientific purposes become art — if at all? Over the ages, the beauty of scientific images has been widely recognized. Reading Robert Hooke's Micrographia ...

This question immediately brings up a whole host of other questions. Almost anything can constitute art in this day and age. One need only look as far as Mark Rothko to see this. His pieces are ...