Joseph Beuys

We scoured gallery announcements from the last six months to find works by artists recently added to the rosters of some of the most reputable galleries. Collect them while you still can—here on Artspace.

In Phaidon's brand new compendium 'Vitamin C', 84 leading critics and curators nominated 102 contemporary artists who show that clay and ceramic are as vital as ever.

In this excerpt from Phaidon’s Vitamin: 3D, an exhaustive compendium of today’s most important sculptors, we take a closer look at three of Deutschland’s most important sculptors: Kitty Krauss, Nora Schultz, and Katja Strunz.

Here, we’ve excerpted a conversation between the Swiss artist and the curator and critic Alison Gingeras from Phaidon’s Thomas Hirschhorn, focusing on Hirschhorn's thoughts around being a fan defining the success or failure of a piece.

In this comprehensive interview with the famed “supercurator” Hans Ulrich Obrist excerpted from Phaidon’s monograph Ai Weiwei, the artist delves deep into his own stroy, detailing the bumpy road to making art history.

For the uninitiated, this essay excerpted from Phaidon’s Art in Time: A World History of Styles and Movements provides a quick primer on this radical group’s major players and events.

The past few years have seen a marked uptick in the number of artworks featuring live animals, even as Seaworld and the Ringling Bros. phase out their critter performers—what gives?

The director of the world's oldest contemporary art fair explains the unexpected origins of the concept, and why Easter wreaks havok on the German art market.

A new show at the Museum of Modern Art makes us reassess the Belgian artist and critical darling best known for mocking the authority of the art museum.

From Duchamp's readymade "Fountain" to Sarah Lucas's assemblage with a priapic cucumber, these sculptures and installations exploit the arresting presence of the found object.

Some of the most innovative artworks of the past half-century took the form of magazines. Here are a few you'll want to flip through (only one, alas, is still in print).

Ranging across historical periods and running the gamut of artistic styles, these artworks express the extraordinary breadth of work on view at this year's fair.

He was what kind of artist? Here are the most interesting morsels that arose from Massimiliano Gioni's conversation with the former MOCA director and art dealer at the New York Public Library.

We looked back on the strategies of seven artists who have incorporated living creatures, from livestock to house pets, in their provocative art.

We sat down with the chef behind Italy's most acclaimed restaurant to talk about how contemporary art influences his cooking, and why food belongs in museums.

From a protean (and unapologetic) copycat of recent art history to one of France's most acclaimed conceptual pranksters, these are the artists everyone will be talking about this month.

We surveyed the arc of the groundbreaking artist's career, from his outrageous early performances to his avant-garde experiments with robotics and TVs that crowned him the forefather of video art.

To understand the development of one of the biggest artistic movements in Germany since Bauhaus, we take a closer look at the origins of the School, and how its conceptual approach ushered the medium into the halls of modern art.

From the storied Städelschule to Beijing's most selective academy, these are the international graduate programs in Fine Arts to know.

From the groundbreaking "Primary Structures" at the Jewish Museum (now being reinterpreted in a new show) to "WACK!" at L.A. MOCA in 2007, here's a survey of exhibitions that upended the way we look at art today—and how artists make it, too.

We sifted through the thousands of artworks on view on the piers to unearth a selection of choice finds, from art-historical champs to white-hot newcomers .