Contemporary Art

Whether they’re inspired by Internet surveillance images or 17th-century portraits, contemporary artists draw on a wide range of material to stretch photography’s limits of expression.

The publishers that fostered a printmaking renaissance in the 1960s are every bit as active today, helping artists create original works and bring them to an ever-wider public.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has given graphic designers Seymour Chwast and Paula Scher a dual retrospective — and let them create the installation themselves. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) Bold orange, gray, black and white arrows and a shiny text bubble—the type that might appear over a cartoon character’s head—reading “Double Portrait” are arranged…

Drawing on a millennia-old tradition of myth and symbolism, Australian Aboriginal artists are creating powerful contemporary works.

What happens when artists imitate their imitators? By Jonathon Keats In the first few months of 1963, the Mona Lisa was seen by nearly two million people in New York and Washington, D.C. Shipped to the United States on a diplomatic mission – escorted by the French culture minister and received by President John F….

In Stephanie Brody-Lederman’s art of images and words, some bold, new abstract gestures are shaking up the emotional mix.

Donald and Shelley Rubin’s apartment is a curated space for an eclectic collection of works from around the world.

The market for Western-themed art is as vast as the high plains, and specialty auctions are leading the stampede.

This summer the Museum of Art and Design rewinds VHS culture with their new exhibition titled “Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art”.