contemporary art
Who Do You Think Created This Artwork: Humans or AI?
A picture paints a thousand words, and one made with AI just needs a simple text prompt.
‘The Rig Veda Is Wrongly Interpreted as a Religious Text’
‘The Rig Veda is wrongly Interpreted as a religious text,' says Astha Butail.
Internal Stress
Qiu Yang's beautiful photos capture the surprising results when mechanical stress is applied to plastic products.
Can VR Change the Way We Engage with Contemporary Art?
Terminus at the National Gallery feels like an acid-trip into a sci-fi comic.
How New Zealand's Millennial Artists are Confronting Generational Stigma
Are millennials equally lost and lamentable the world over? A recent trio of forward-looking exhibitions in New Zealand suggests that youth remains a truly international—and consistently problematic—art-world obsession.
How To Start An Art Collection As a Young, Broke Person
It's not impossible! We asked some experts for tips.
Making Art From the Decaying Suburban Dream
Australian artist Ian Strange photographs the foreclosed homes of Ohio's Rust Belt.
Curating Africa Beyond the Clichés
A new exhibition seeks to bring contemporary African art to the fore—and there's not a tribal mask to be seen.
6 Female Artists Demonstrate Pottery's Subversive Potential
A group show in London responds to a ceramics exhibit staged at the Whitney Museum in 1981.
Immersive Installation Explores Sleep Culture and Insomnia
With pink light and pillows, artist Matthew Bird curates the perfect night’s sleep.
This Artist Recreates Memories With Photographic Collage
Paul Anthony Smith turns photographs into pointillist representations of social constructs.