A four-person team has shaped the Encounters section of Art Basel Hong Kong, organizing it around the elements of water, fire, earth and ether. By Bonnie Tsui Reporting from Hong Kong Mami Kataoka has ...

Cosmic explosions, proto-Surrealism and names to remember — like the D.J. Raul Hardie and Anne Brown, the high point of our critic’s survey. By Will Heinrich At this point you know “outsider art” when ...

In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and reception. As a theory of the nexus of social ...

There is a fable that persists in even themost respectable quarters, perhaps because it has retained its power to shock for more than half a century. Get any card-carrying liberal into a sufficiently ...