“What makes this work contemporary?” is a question I went to the 2012 San Diego Contemporary Art Festival prepared with — an effort to extract the essence or principles behind what we call “contemporary...

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There was a lot of screaming in Jason Ponce’s installation, Primal Screen, on display at the opening of The Art of Sound exhibit at...

The title of one of Tm Gratkowski’s enormous collages, Wanted Her Pattern Behavior Built — now on display in the Text Message, The Alchemy of Text Based Art exhibit at the Bleicher Gallery in Los Angeles, CA —...

Ed Freeman felt depressed looking at a photo of himself that he judged to look old and tired. So, he took 20 years off his face in Photoshop, splicing his head onto a young man’s torso. The result made him quite...

Despite the variety of shapes and forms that sexual expression takes on in the 21st century, Vietnamese artist Uudam Nguyen inspires fresh fantasies with his mass-produced Fuck Buttons.

In America, we love our superheroes — pop culture icons that reflect our inner struggles and insecurities, but reconcile these common dilemmas with fierce determination and dedication to the greater good (as...