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Warning… If you are easily offended then please do not open this top 10! Art has been a great marker for social change and most of the works in this...

Some works of art are funny ha ha. Some are funny and we're laughing with them. Some are funny but we're laughing at them. Art is a subjective means...

Artists were very likely the first ‘Rock Stars! Since Caravaggio, they have left behind a legacy of volatile extremes whether it be drunken...

'Come up and see my etchings' was a students catchphrase in the 1940s that rapidly gained a much wider currency throughout the English speaking...

This is not an easy or palatable topic, but art is steeped in violence. The human condition seeks it out, and in doing so glorifies the deity of...

A new exhibition at the National Gallery is a celebration of monochrome and in particular painting in black and white. The term monochrome is used...

Cultural vandalism manifests itself in various ugly ways. There are examples of government approved vandalism, like the destruction of TFL's Eduardo...

What is Outsider Art? Roger Cardinal the English art critic coined the term 'Outsider Art' in 1972 as the English alternative to 'Art Brut' (French:...

Picked By Paul Black - With Anselm Kiefer's ambitious new exhibition, Paul Nash At Tate Britain, Picasso at the NPG, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mona...

I’m just back from a week in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The third time I’ve been there, but the first two were just before Pinochet stepped...

Good artists can create bad art, and fine artists are included in this selection; even they can create low-brow, mass produced work, in a perpetual...

Artlyst has delved through the archives of art world oddities to bring you the reader the strangest art performance pieces of all time. From scary...