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Born out of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Constructivism challenged notions of creation versus construction in the art world.

Ivan Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter. He is considered to be one of the greatest masters of marine art. Aivazovsky, born in 1817 in Feodosia, Crimea was the son of an Armenian merchant named Konstantin Gaivazovsky. He and his family migrated from Western Armenian in the seventeenth century, eventually settling down in Feodosia. Though baptized under the name Hovhannes Aivazian at the St.

Thomas Cole is remembered as one of America's earliest and most significant landscape painters.

Long layovers are synonymous with exhaustion, boredom, and anxiety as beleaguering travelers wait for their connecting flights.

In many cultures, green is the color of rebirth and prosperity, a harbinger of life and spring. However, placed within the context of the nineteenth century, green begins to represent the dualities of inspiration and melancholia, health and sickness, and life and death.

The ancient Greek body is perhaps one of the most recognizable and influential forms in art history.

On Monday February 6, at 4:17 am local time, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, lasting over two minutes.

As the tallest statue in the world upon its completion in 2018, India’s Statue of Unity represents far more than a vanity project to reach incredible heights.

Hilton Als is many things: author, curator, critic, teacher, and winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Art & Object spoke to Als about his upcoming exhibition on Joan Didion, What She Means, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

British artist Steve Porter has an intriguing portrait project: Signed99 explores signatures as abstract forms, using a monochromatic palette within a variegated, colored internal frame.