In 1972 members of the Chicano avant-garde art collective Asco tagged their names on all the entrances of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This “intervention” — the group’s first outside its home ...

I am not acquainted with the works of the late playwright Eugene Ionesco. But that doesn't matter. The Romanian born writer ("Rhinoceros," "The Bald Soprano," "Exit the King") is part of the ...

Once you’ve been to a few fairs during Art Basel week in Miami, wandering aimlessly through mazes of gallery booths, you go into a delirious state. The over-saturation of art often leads you to ...

The LSU Museum of Art has planned several events to coincide with its exhibit, Practically Absurd: Art & Design by Peter Shire, which opens Thursday, Jan. 31, and runs through Sunday, April 14, in ...

When Colombian artist Fernando Botero died on Sept. 15 at age 91, media around the world noted that he was Latin America’s best-known painter and sculptor, and that his voluminous figures are ...

The whimsical art of Staunton‘s Diana Hale will be on display at Art Hive and opens Saturday, October 4, 2025 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. “With Love From the Art Hive” reminds us of the profound ...

Built on the existential foundations of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and expanded upon in the early 1940s by Albert Camus, absurdism gained traction in the post-war era, centered on ideas around life ...

Pamela Joseph’s long-running and ever-evolving traveling multimedia art show “Sideshow of the Absurd” begs the question, “How did she come up with this stuff?” A pair of filmmakers have attempted to ...

"Allan Wexler's career resists easy classification. He is best known as a hands-on maker. He explores the fields of architecture and design as an artist. In the late 1960s Wexler was an early member ...