contemporary art

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announces today that its Board of Trustees recently approved the acquisition of 48 works of art, including four purchased using proceeds from the auction of recently…
These eight inspirational artists have found the motivation to create, every day, year after year, into their eighth decade or further, and are still inventing new ways to see the world.
Photographer Erik James Montgomery has a studio in a former fire station in the downtown area of what's often called America's most dangerous city, Camden, NJ. In addition to having a successful…
British ceramic artist Claire Partington’s site-specific installation Taking Tea is adding a new dimension to the Seattle Art Museum (SAM)’s popular Porcelain Room.
Long admired for her meticulous renderings of natural imagery, including ocean waves, desert floors and night skies, artist Vija Celmins has created paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints for…
Employing a distinctively unrestrained visual vocabulary of vivid colors and bold patterns, anthropomorphic forms and irregular shapes, Noségo's richly colorful, dreamily surreal new series explore…
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and Erich Weiss discuss social-cultural themes that directly affect the artist's work, such as her experience as a multi-cultural woman and the challenges she has faced as…
Through a new installation, artist Olafur Eliasson is urging Londoners to engage with climate change in a new way. In collaboration with geologist Minik Rosing, Eliasson has installed a group of 24…