Today’s New York art world is painfully nostalgic for the 1980s — a time when rent in the East Village could be paid on tips, syringes littered the streets, and social forces challenged artists to ...

In his new show, the artist, known for pushing the limits of acceptable behavior in his performance art, carefully, even timidly explores what it means to make transgressive art today. By Travis Diehl ...

Many have pronounced the artistic avant-garde dead, but no one has tried to drive a stake through its heart as British author Anthony Julius does in "Transgressions: The Offences of Art" (University ...

A rare retrospective of the late British artist reveals her lifelong dedication to disrupting the boundaries of gender, sex and death via bawdy, provocative sculptures and collages Helen Chadwick, who ...

Viewing a pictorial scene that you didn’t think possible is a startling, often revealing experience. You ask yourself, should you believe your eyes. Maybe, you conclude, you are having a hallucination ...

Transgressions: The Offenses of Art. By Anthony Julius. University of Chicago Press, 272 pp., $35.00. We might well expect, therefore, that this book's almost 200 images from 1860 to the present will ...