Art Feature Articles

Using art as a means for social change, artivists can change the world

The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico claims the world’s largest collection of folk art. The museum’s website displays 130,000-plus objects from more than 100 countries. Online…

The often-contentious relationship between artists and those who write about art is as old as culture itself. The art critic’s job is to rationalize what is inherently an irrational pursuit.

Prints from the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Master of Finnish Modernism and Gender Pioneer

Despite its ugly political connotation acquired in the decades that followed the inception of twentieth-century neoclassicism, this artistic movement fully expressed the cultural zeitgeist of…

How an idealized visual representation of the male form that originated in Ancient Greece has survived more or less intact until today

One of the world's best-known and least-seen collections of marble statuary is making its twenty-first-century debut.

Even as traditional outlets for it shrink, socially conscious art and the desire to make it remain as strong as ever.

Prints and Carvings from the Artistic Capital of the North