Artnet

What’s the Difference Between Modern and Contemporary Art?

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...
Artnet

Why Ultra-Contemporary Artists Are So Obsessed With Old Masters

Artists have always recycled their era’s “Old Masters”: Romans quoted the Greeks, Rodin studied Michelangelo, and Picasso returned to Rembrandt, to name just a few. While the prevalence of these ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How These Contemporary Artists Are Redefining Family and Kinship

Explore the enduring bonds and intimacies of modern love at the National Portrait Gallery Shantay Robinson | Museum Correspondent Family Portrait from the series "The ...
The New York Times

In Indianapolis, a New Contemporary Art Museum Comes With a D.J.

The 40,000-square-foot space, housed in a former dairy barn, aims to upend expectations of what an art museum can be. By Sarah Bahr Photographs by Lee Klafczynski Sarah Bahr grew up in Brownsburg, Ind ...
PBS

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz celebrate Black contemporary art in 'Giants' exhibition

"Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” is an exhibition celebrating the contributions of Black contemporary artists, spanning 20th-century icons to today’s emerging ...