Even before they argue about “Contemporary Art”, the survey respondents are all at pains to come up with a succinct definition of the word “contemporary” or its local equivalents. Li Xianting does not ...

The quest to define and canonize new words in American English is as old as the country itself. In the new book "Unabridged: ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...