Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

THE Paris school of painting boasts five aged masters who probably have less in common than the members of any other “school” in art history. They are protean Pablo Picasso, bubbly Henri Matisse, ...

To attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of ...

Two exhibitions of objects of art are being arranged for this year, which will be of no little scientific, as well as aesthetic, interest. Of these, the first will illustrate the art of primitive ...

The meanings of "primitive" and "art" -- The functions of art in primitive societies -- Iconography and symbolism -- The artist's life and work -- Where does it all come from : the psychology of art - ...

PARIS — Burnishing its reputation as a culture capital, Paris is getting a new museum, an elegant elongated building near the Eiffel Tower for France’s large and until now scattered collection of ...

The mystique of connoisseurship -- The universality principle -- The night side of man -- Anonymity and timelessness -- Power plays -- Objets d'art and ethnographic artifacts -- From signature to ...

Billy The Artist who bridged the divide between the fine art and commercial design worlds with his acclaimed "Urban Primitive Pop Artist," died in New York City at the age 57 on Saturday, January 22, ...