Hans Haacke

The actions taken against these three exhibitions run the gamut—from trustees demanding that works should be removed immediately, to government agents literally running over paintings with bulldozers!

In this 2004 interview with the godfather of institutional critique, Hans Haacke taps into art’s relationship with big business, the CIA, Rudolph Giuliani, nationalism, and the George W. Bush administration.

In this historical moment of enormous uncertainty, perhaps it's time to start reconsidering some foundational assumptions about how contemporary art operates.

In this short excerpt from Phaidon's Art in Time, we look back at the historical roots of this anti-establishment approach to art-making.

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.

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.

We broke down the main exhibition's artist list for a primer on themes in the big show.

In advance of the museum's grand reopening, we spoke to its chief curator about how the new building has given the Whitney a chance to rethink its future—and its past.

We shuttled through the aisles in search of a few of the most mesmeric pieces to be seen at the fair, from tough sculptures to lavishly beautiful paintings.

We spoke to the legendary figure in European contemporary art about his polarizing exhibition in St. Petersburg's Hermitage—and his side of the story.

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.

Here's a look at the most exciting artists we discovered at New York's favorite alternative fair, nestled in the heart of Chelsea.