Cellist Charlotte Moorman was born in Little Rock on Nov. 18, 1933, and began playing cello when she was 10, according to the ...

When automotive enthusiasts reflect on 1962, they usually picture the low, wide Motown cruisers from the Big Three or the ...

A performance artist, dancer, choreographer, videographer, filmmaker and curator, he was a central figure in the downtown Manhattan experimental arts scene.

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

Has avant-garde fashion gone the way of the hobble skirt? It would seem so at a time when the biggest names are playing it safe, few young designers are touting unorthodox clothing styles and ...

José Sabogal, Cover design of Amauta vol. 4, no. 26, September-October 1929, magazine, 9 15/16 x 6 15/16 in., Archivo José Carlos Mariátegui, Lima, Peru (all images courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art) ...

In the 1920s, a new kind of movie started showing in Paris theatres, and the audiences were… confused. These movies were a radical departure from the ones they had known until then. These new films ...

It’s been a strange season for me, I have to admit. That’s the only excuse I can think of for why, although I usually devour each quarterly issue of Jacobin as soon as I find it in my mailbox, it’s ...

In 1967, in the course of a visit to Moscow, I was entertained one evening in the apartment of a young man who seemed to know a lot about the life of art in the Soviet Union at that time. He may also ...