Did you know that Ayn Rand had a theory of art? No? Neither did I! But I discovered it recently, thanks to a tip from painter Abigail Markov. It’s encapsulated in the hefty 539-page treatise “What Art ...

This is going to be a longer essay than I initially thought I’d write about conspiracy theory. It began in my head as me thinking about a few points I would have added to something I’d recently ...

Art theory interrogates the foundations and evolution of artistic practice through both historical and contemporary lenses. It examines the formal elements of artefacts, the cultural systems within ...

In 1999, David Hockney was surveying the drawings of French Neoclassicist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at London’s National Gallery when an uncanny feeling crept over him. The graphite works were too ...

A pilot study from a group of Dutch scientists implies that being told that an image is an artwork automatically changes our response, both on a neural and behavioural level. This may mean that our ...

In an obituary for the New York Times, Ken Johnson described Arthur Danto (1924–2013) as “one of the most widely read art critics of the Postmodern era.” Danto, who was both a critic and a professor ...

The Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art degree is a two-year, 60-unit, multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary program in studio art with an emphasis on the individual artist, holistically preparing ...