Opinions of contemporary art are wide and varied, but they tend to cohere around that it is opaque, effortless, slap-dash, and either flippantly shallow or angrily and intellectually confrontational.

Contemporary art is worth nearly $2.7 billion in market turnover and accounts for a staggering 15% of the global art market. When it comes to artwork of the present day and relatively recent past ...

Though no investment is entirely without risk, contemporary art has shown remarkable resilience, while increased access to data and information in our digital age means sophisticated buyers can be ...

All art, back to the oldest Paleolithic stone Venus, is in a sense contemporary art. “When you go look at impressionism, you’re also seeing them in the contemporary moment,” said Bianconi.

While modern art has not always been received well, due to changing perspectives on what constitutes an art piece, the acceptance of non-traditional art in museums has increased. Various institutions ...

Much of contemporary art is to seek “the different,” and the version of different that ultimately sticks can be hard to identify. Furthermore, the price of an artist’s work often depends on what she ...

Auctions This Modern Indian Artwork Just Made History at Auction. M.F. Husain’s work fetched $13.8 million, nearly twice the previous record for Modern Indian art.

According to LACMA, “The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art” is the first major exhibition anywhere to examine art produced during a huge cultural transformation that provided one ...

In Baltimore, Confronting Chaos Through Contemporary Art. ... It is the first artwork Leroy created, and he directed it with the visual artist Kordae Jatafa Henry.

TINTERA, a photographic art consultancy with a gallery space in Zamalek and offices in London, specializes in both contemporary and historical photography, focusing on images that capture the region.

Shababeek for Contemporary Art stood just a few feet away from Al-Shifa Hospital, ... destroying 30 years of Sarhan’s artwork as well as the archives of the organization’s fellow co-founders, ...