I’ve been teaching about art for a very long time. But despite all those years in the classroom, my attempt at giving an accurate definition of art becomes a mystery tour. I’ve concluded the ...

What is art? How do we define art? What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we ...

One of the easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions ...

For some time a holy grail in the specialised world of art publishing has been the production of an accessible A-Z guide explaining the arcane world of contemporary art to the general reader. Several ...

For an art project, a student in Britain has created a Dictionary of Lost Words. It's filled with words that failed to make it into the Oxford English Dictionary. There's freegan, a person who eats ...