By the early 20th century, black artists were making art about black life in America.
In its rejection of conventions of the past and its ridicule of the future, Dada is thought to be an art about nothing.
He began as an abstract painter at CalArts and evolved into representational, folkloric art about a fisherman's family during a teaching stint in Nova Scotia.
Whatever else Mr Avedon thought about photography, an art about which he was unceasingly articulate and philosophical, he did not want it to be kind.
Bellows was an athlete himself, playing baseball and basketball at Ohio State University before dropping out to move to New York, and he showed an affinity for art about sports including ice skating and sailing and other leisure pursuits.
ABSTRACT:THE ART WORLD about the Yale University Art Gallery, which has just undergone years of expansion and renovation.
Art is about ideas and civilization, and yet too often it's marginalized by the market in America.
Classical music concerts and the restoration of buildings and works of art absorb about three-quarters of this money.
Art is about eliciting a reaction and you would have to be the most jaded creature to not respond to this show, favorably or not.
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And instead of a product brochure, Toyota is distributing a slick magazine called Scion, Sight, Sound, Motion, filled with more information about art, music and fashion than about the car.
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The diamond skull has fulfilled its destiny, which is to be a talking point, what used to be miscalled a conversation piece: a way of chattering about art for people who know nothing about it.
Because even if you do know about art, you can't talk about it socially.
While museums, auctions, galleries, studios and international fairs are more integral to the art world, Miami Art Basel has become an annual touchpoint for talking about art to big audiences and for art collectors to strut their stuff.
Churchill might tell me something about the art of statecraft, or Fry about the pressures of fame and the joy of words, but someone closer to home, with a life more like mine and challenges more like mine, will tell me far more about a life with mental health difficulty and how best to live it.
Paul Emsley was asked how he felt about some art critics' less than flattering comments about his work.
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He said his foray into art storage began about seven years ago, when he and his wife were in Paris collecting contemporary art and mid-century furniture for their Greenwich Village apartment.
The jukebox will soon be installed at the Berkeley Art Museum as part of a show about silence in art.
"I don't know much about art, really, but I am moved by beauty, " he says.
While auction prices are concrete and verifiable, very little else about art can be objectively quantified.
After a year of sales that boomed into the stratosphere, is the art market bubble about to burst?
"It's interesting to buy a house that's all about art when you don't have that much, " he says, laughing.
Aside from changing the face of a prospective docent, teaching museums make learning about art less formal and fussy.
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America, and Germany, were lucky to have in Wiesbaden someone as concerned and knowledgeable about art as Mr Farmer.
This is what I understood about art: its very existence was credential enough.
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