Yoko Ono

We mark the April 22 event with a selection of ecologically themed works that highlight environmental imperatives in their own special ways

It’s a figure that forms us all and a role that some of us play. Small, wonder, then, that motherhood has shaped artistic output throughout human history

You might be surprised by who and what is behind some of the art world’s largest patrons. Here are the stories behind six of some of the most recognized artist grants and awards.

Your New Mantra Awaits: Featuring quotes from Salvador Dali, Yoko Ono, Walker Evans, Jane Hammond and more

In advance of her retrospective opening at the New Museum this week, here's an interview that renowned curator Massimiliano Gioni conducted with the artist about her life's protean work, from the new Phaidon monograph Pipilotti Rist:Pixel Forest.

For the uninitiated, this essay excerpted from Phaidon’s Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements provides a quick primer on this radical group’s major players and events.

These seven works, excerpted from Phaidon’s The 21st-Century Art Book, highlight the sometimes-strained relationship between ethics and aesthetics.

In her second dispatch from the wilds of Kinderhook, New York, the former art dealer Kristen Dodge finds objects of aesthetic contemplation under the butts of her chickens.

We surveyed a few galleries from throughout the past century that made revolutionary contributions to art, only to fade away.

From the groundbreaking "Primary Structures" at the Jewish Museum (now being reinterpreted in a new show) to "WACK!" at L.A. MOCA in 2007, here's a survey of exhibitions that upended the way we look at art today—and how artists make it, too.