John Cage

The founding curator of MoMA’s video program describes how Warhol and Bowie helped shape the form, and how gallery staff have had to acquire old skool TV repair man skills to keep early works looking good

In this epilogue of “Committing the Perfect Crime: Sexuality, Assemblage and the Postmodern Turn in American Art” (2008) from Phaidon’s 'Art & Queer Culture,' Johnathan Katz examines the relationship between Rauschenberg’s assemblage and homosexuality.

Advancing the fields of painting, photography, performance, and more, Rauschenberg's work is inextricable from the history of art as a whole.

Owen Duffy writes about why the 1968 essay "The Dematerialization of Art" applies to more than just art and remains relevant in our current tech-heavy age.

In this interview with the famously forward-thinking MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach—excerpted from Phaidon’s monograph Marina Abramović—the artist looks back on her trailblazing career.

From a pioneer of digitally informed painting to a white-hot young paragon debuting her latest body of work, these are the artists you’ll be talking about this month.

Some of the most innovative artworks of the past half-century took the form of magazines. Here are a few you'll want to flip through (only one, alas, is still in print).

The highly regarded consultant shares her favorite works at this year's edition of the emerging-art fair.

In the first section of our two-part interview, Jonas Mekas recounts the heady times and creative ferment of 1960s New York.

In an essay excerpted from the new book Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life, the established installation artist Mark Dion sends his students on an intensive scavenger hunt in New York City.

We surveyed the arc of the groundbreaking artist's career, from his outrageous early performances to his avant-garde experiments with robotics and TVs that crowned him the forefather of video art.

We survey a variety of ways that artists have sloughed off the traditional confines of painting to approach the canvas in surprising, often unorthodox ways.

From New York to L.A., these alternative galleries from across the country took the experimental momentum of the 1970s to new heights.