Did you know that Ayn Rand had a theory of art? No? Neither did I! But I discovered it recently, thanks to a tip from painter Abigail Markov. It's encapsulated in the hefty 539-page treatise What Art ...

Could there be a unified theory of art? As someone who is a casual follower of the sciences and once happily attended a lecture in Boston by Stephen Hawking in which he amusingly illuminated some of ...

This is the second part of a two-part essay on conspiracy theories. The first part is here. Earlier, I looked at how “conspiracy thinking” could be made sense of in relation to a broader spectrum of ...

Hal Foster is one of the most well-known thinkers about art today. In a career that spans several decades, he is known for important much-cited books including The Return of the Real from 1996, Design ...

Introduction: Feminism-Art-Theory: Towards a (political) historiography -- 1. Overviews. Introduction -- Gender in/of culture. Valerie Solanas, 'Scum Manifesto' (1968 ...

Parsons Paris offers a comprehensive array of art and design history and theory (ADHT) courses in design studies, fashion studies, visual culture studies, art and design history and criticism, the ...

I think I can remember my first ever life-drawing class in college during my foundation year of drawing theory. A bright high-ceilinged room surrounded by white-papered windows. Talking Heads were on ...