Step into a contemporary gallery today, and mystical, spiritual artworks greet you like old friends. Once dismissed as fringe or overly eccentric, these works now dominate major exhibitions. The ...

Through physically-punishing performance art pieces that have seen him suspended horizontally from ceiling beams in chains while medics siphoned off his blood, or locked inside a metal box with only a ...

It’s the United States of America in the late 19th century, a moment of industrialization and urbanization contributing to a heightened concern for deceased kin and bereaved Americans questioning the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle is a Paris-based reporter covering art and culture This article is more than 7 years old. Born in 1965 in the ...