Like so much else in the art world in 2019, whether you find Object & Thing a breath of fresh air or an affront to all that is good and pure in life largely depends on how seriously you take yourself.

On average, we probably encounter magazines more frequently than art. To equate them, though, isn’t common practice. Is a New Yorker cartoon just a quirky little illustration, or is it a defining ...

Before even opening The Object, Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press’s latest installment in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, the book’s title stares back, interpolates itself, asking ...

Three big ‘PST Art: Art and Science Collide’ exhibitions include marvelous objects, but only one show is satisfying. The Getty Museum’s exhilarating ‘Lumen: The Art and Science of Light’ surveys ...

The earliest efforts in the field of technical art history focused on the “fine arts”, mainly Western works of art such as paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The “decorative arts” or “applied arts” ...