Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading ...
Twentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)--legendary and self-mythologizing, enigmatic and controversial--remains an important influence on artists today. Beuys embraced radically democratic artistic and political ideas, ...
This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of "the Gothic" in contemporary visual culture. The contemporary Gothic in art is informed ...
Twentieth-century art history is not just a history of individuals, but of collectives, groups. Universities and colleges have had much to do with this ...
In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed its outdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom ...
Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story'something played and something told. In Second Person, game ...
Beginning in the summer of 1922, philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) occupied a small, three-room cabin in the Black Forest Mountains of southern Germany. He ...
Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians from ...
