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 ...

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 ...

Contemporary art is worth nearly $2.7 billion in market turnover and accounts for a staggering 15% of the global art market. When it comes to artwork of the present day and relatively recent past, it ...