In recent essays, cultural critic Ted Gioia questions whether beauty is becoming a lost art in our increasingly utilitarian world. He suggests that aesthetic values are vanishing from daily life, ...

"Our references can be classical, based in aesthetics like Art Deco, but pared back a little ... "Every aspect has been considered from a functional point of view, and there is sumptuousness ...

Ameya Okamoto, Santana Walker, and Celeste Hampton—part of the Smithsonian's Nail Art Project. Photos courtesy of the ...

Here is the definition of erotic, according to 93-year-old artist Martha Edelheit. “It’s sensual, nonviolent, consensual, ...

For many of us, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, a mourning of the wanton destruction of Francisco Franco’s Spain, is a long way from Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, a Nazi-loving paean that used ...

As glad as I am that the Oscars gave exposure to “No Other Land,” I only hope audiences can engage with its political values ...

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick ...

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