Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Harvey Fierstein
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
Mike Figgis
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most... →
Martin Filler
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role... →
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus... →
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic... →
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always... →
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of... →
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and... →
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography'... →