(RNS) — When friends mention some new Christian artwork, movie or novel, I confess my first thought is usually, “I wonder how bad it is.” It’s not the artistic treatment of faith that discourages me.

Art lovers have taken to a thread in r/ArtHistory and recall the specific works that left a lasting mark on their souls. While some find beauty in technical perfection, others are moved by the weight ...

I am not an expert on art but I am an expert on gullibility, and art appreciation (and certainly art economics) can in part be understood as an example of mass gullibility at work. Take the case of an ...

Kolja Brand is a leading art marketing expert and innovates the art scene with the German Art Award and his artist agency, Aurum Future. The current art market is increasingly characterized by a ...

This Has No Name (1990), mixed media, 37 × 22 × 9 in. (image courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York) LOS ANGELES — Taking Duchamp as a starting point, B. Wurtz performs simple operations on ...

“The best introduction to the lifelong pleasure and rewards of looking at pictures since Gombrich. An instant classic.” Stephen Fry If you (like most viewers) of Jan van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Portrait” ...