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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.