Contemporary Art

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The Turner Prize: Is it Relevant?

Charlotte Appleyard | Posted 12.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Contemporary Art, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Nicholas Serota, Traditional Media, Non Traditional Media, The Turner Prize, The Stuckists, Media News

Since we're all quite used to pickled sharks, video installations and elephant dung the press can no longer ask; "is it art?" so the question becomes "is it good art?"

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Culture Zohn: Cindy Sherman Channels the End of an Era

Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Photography, Contemporary Art, Chelsea, Metro Pictures, David Byrne, Cindy Sherman, Entertainment News

Cindy Sherman, photographer extraordinaire, has always had her incisive gaze focused firmly on herself, yet it has been the self of a thousand faces.

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Con Ojos Abiertos, Pinta Art Fair Opens in New York City

Sarah Greenwalt | Posted 11.14.2008 | Style

Read More: South America, Art, Pinta Art Fair, Fine Art, Contemporary Art, Spain, Art Fairs, Pinta, New York City, Latin American Art, Style News

Money may come and money may go, but the art world will always love a party. That couldn't have been more evident than at the lively opening of the Pinta Art Fair in New York City.

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Third Screen: Marshall Arisman on How to Look Around

Vickie Karp | Posted 11.06.2008 | Style

Read More: The Divine Elvis, Contemporary Artist, Violent Contemporary Art, Graphic Art, Art Spirituality, The Cat Who Invented Bebop, Violence, Blood, Guan Dong Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art, Violent Art, Marshall Arisman, Violent Graphic Art, Art Violence, Style News

Arisman is seriously not "art light," and his work is at the very heart of the question asked of much contemporary art -- why does it have to be so dark, so graphic, so violent?

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The Voting Booth Project

Paddy Johnson | Posted 10.20.2008 | Style

Read More: David Zwirner Gallery, Art, Marcel Dzama, Contemporary Art, Voting Booth Art Show, Voting Booth, 2008 Election, Voting, Style News

Five of the original voting booths used in the 2000 Florida election have been repurposed by artists, with all but one just as rickety as they were in their original state.

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Marlene Dumas: Eros and Thanatos

Peter Clothier | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Contemporary Art, Sexuality, Death, Living News

Who would have predicted, twenty years ago, when painting had been pronounced "dead" and figure painting deader still, that today's hottest-selling woman artist would be a painter -- and a figure painter, at that?

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Gay Marriage: Personal Freedoms and Equal Rights

Peter Clothier | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Contemporary Art, California Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, The Personal Is Political, California Supreme Court Gay Marriage, Politics News

News reports covering the reversal of the same-sex marriage ban have tended to lose sight of the extraordinarily personal nature of marriage itself, illustrated by the new movie, Chris and Don: A Love Story.

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