Drawing on examples from Duchamp, Warhol, Serrano, Hirst, and others, the two discuss how the banal, the transgressive, and ...

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He thought symbolically! He hit the mark all the time but actually some covers were not meant to be symbolic. Some were strictly designs. They had no meaning whatsoever. But as a general rule for how ...

New Furniture 1920–1940” at the Vienna Furniture Museum.

George Loomis on “Cendrillon,” at the Opera Royal de Versailles.

Soane office, RA Lecture Drawing to illustrate an Egyptian temple: Perspective of the First Court of the Temple at Edfu, Sir John Soane’s Museum. Milton Avery, Reflected Artist, 1927, Oil on homemade ...