When does an image made by a researcher for scientific purposes become art — if at all? Over the ages, the beauty of scientific images has been widely recognized. Reading Robert Hooke's Micrographia ...

“Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot." -- Jeb Dickerson Art has never been something that can be uniformly defined in one easy entry in a dictionary. There are so many ...

Even before they argue about “Contemporary Art”, the survey respondents are all at pains to come up with a succinct definition of the word “contemporary” or its local equivalents. Li Xianting does not ...

This question immediately brings up a whole host of other questions. Almost anything can constitute art in this day and age. One need only look as far as Mark Rothko to see this. His pieces are ...