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Contemporary
A purposefully undefined catchall term that refers to absolutely everything from 1980 onward since the sieve of time has not yet clarified the historical view.
Basics to get you started
Contemporary art, an introduction
Contemporary Native American Architecture
The Case for Ai Weiwei
The Pictures Generation
The YBAs: The London-based Young British Artists
An interview with Anselm Kiefer
An interview with Kara Walker
An interview with Fred Wilson about the conventions of museums and race
Postcommodity arts collective
An interview with Jamian Juliano-Villani
An interview with Maryam Hoseini
Meriem Bennani’s Exploded Visions
Jordan Casteel paints her community
Theaster Gates on collecting
Luchita Hurtado’s body of work
Graciela Iturbide, Photographing Mexico
An interview with Alfredo Jaar
Mickalene Thomas on her Materials and Artistic Influences
An interview with artist Ogawa Machiko
Omar Victor Diop: Black subjects in the frame
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
Danh Vo Interview: Art Should Estrange
Shirin Neshat, ‘Dreams Are Where Our Fears Live’
Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness
Kerry James Marshall on his process
Xu Zhen – ‘Artists Change the Way People Think’
Artist Richard Bell—”My Art is an Act of Protest”
Artist Dale Harding—”Environment is Part of Who You Are”
Mona Hatoum – ‘Nothing Is a Finished Project’
Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’
Ah Xian artist interview
Doris Salcedo: Third World Identity
Lee Ufan
Lorna Simpson – ‘Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire’
Ellen Gallagher: Cutting
How did Lucian Freud present queer and marginalized bodies?
The Black Atlantic: Identity and Nationhood
The Black Atlantic: Toppled Monuments and Hidden Histories
The Black Atlantic: Afterlives of Slavery in Contemporary Art
Heisei period, an introduction
Jewish history in the post-war period
Inside Manish Arora’s Studio
An interview with Waqas Khan
The Lost Cause and Confederate memory
An interview with Au Ho-nien
An interview with Dayanita Singh
An interview with Noor Ali
An interview with Rahul Jain
An interview with Sheba Chhachhi
An interview with Sheela Gowda
An interview with Sunil Gupta
The Artist Project: Shahzia Sikander
Naeem Mohaiemen
Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF)
Performance art, an introduction
The Case for Performance Art
Self Help Graphics and Art
What made art valuable, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance vs. now
Contemporary Art Conservation at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum
African religious culture in the Atlantic world
A look at modern veneration
Latin American art, an introduction
Abraham Lincoln and northern memory
Terms and Issues in Native American Art
The reception of African art in the West
Chinese calligraphy, an introduction
Chinese landscape painting
Common types of mosque architecture
The Case for Land Art
Science and Paper: Conserving a Drypoint by Michael Heizer
Mother, nation, icon: picturing territory and belonging in South Asia
The Case for Abstraction
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El Anatsui, Many Came Back, 2005, aluminum (liquor bottle tops) and copper wire, 84 x 115 inches (Newark Museum; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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