Curated category
Contemporary art movements
- Conceptual artIn 1967, Sol LeWitt published Paragraphs on Conceptual Art. This text is considered by many to be the movement's manifesto.
- Abstract expressionismIn 1946, the art critic Robert Coates applied the term abstract expressionism to American art for the first time. This label emerged during a period when New…
- Land artIn 1968, a generation of artists in their late twenties stood at the edge of a cultural shift. They rejected the mass-produced cultural debris flooding…
- Performance artThe Cabaret Voltaire opened its doors on the 5th of February 1916 in Zürich, Switzerland. Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings founded this ten-meter-square space to…
- VaporwaveIn August 2010, a cassette tape titled Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 appeared on the internet under the name Daniel Lopatin.
- Pop artEduardo Paolozzi stood before a group of artists in London during 1952 and projected a collage onto the wall. The image showed a revolver firing at a woman's…
- PhotorealismIn the late 1960s, a group of American painters began creating work that would challenge the dominant art movements of their time.