This is the second part of a two-part essay on conspiracy theories. The first part is here. Earlier, I looked at how “conspiracy thinking” could be made sense of in relation to a broader spectrum of ...

Did you know that Ayn Rand had a theory of art? No? Neither did I! But I discovered it recently, thanks to a tip from painter Abigail Markov. It's encapsulated in the hefty 539-page treatise What Art ...

The June 2025 issue of e-flux journal “examines the shifting relationship between theory and art over the past thirty years.”1 The issue’s editorial dispenses with any demonstration of this ...

And anyone who has studied art theory or contemporary art is probably familiar with a masterful book he edited called The Anti Aesthetic. Put out by the Bay Press in 1983, the slim, purple, 150 page ...

Introduction: Feminism-Art-Theory: Towards a (political) historiography -- 1. Overviews. Introduction -- Gender in/of culture. Valerie Solanas, 'Scum Manifesto' (1968 ...

Could there be a unified theory of art? As someone who is a casual follower of the sciences and once happily attended a lecture in Boston by Stephen Hawking in which he amusingly illuminated some of ...

The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) invites prospective students and members of the public and wider arts communities to an Open House on December 10 at the Audain Art Centre.

This is difficult, because I feel deeply conflicted in some ways about the Jewish Museum’s Mirroring Evil exhibition (opening March This is difficult, because I feel deeply conflicted in some ways ...