“This looks like the kind of work my high school students turn in.” I was making my way out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City just before closing when I halted in front of Man Ray’s ...

The earliest efforts in the field of technical art history focused on the “fine arts”, mainly Western works of art such as paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The “decorative arts” or “applied arts” ...

Lobster telephones, raining men in gray suits and bowler hats, and the stuff of unconscious dreams, are some imagery that automatically come to mind with Surrealism. But what more is there to ...

Before even opening The Object, Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press’s latest installment in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, the book’s title stares back, interpolates itself, asking ...