For the average viewer, there are unwritten rules about art. Art is only art when it is in a museum, when it is centuries old ...

In the last decade, a new field of inquiry pertaining to the object, its materiality and its agency has emerged in art and philosophy. Speculative realism, new materialism and object-oriented ontology ...

Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it ...

Rujeko Hockley is an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, she joined the ...

An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But ...