The Case For

In this collection, The Art Assignment investigates popular artists and art movements.

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We explore the life, evolution, and legacy of Jackson Pollock.

How are we supposed to deal with art completely removed from recognizable objects?

What purpose did museums serve? And why does every city have one today?

Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin?

What's wrong with seeing the unclothed human body? And what is its place in art?

Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless...

What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick?

This week we explore some of the most powerful artworks ever made.

What is video art?

"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory.