In his essay collection Those Passions, the great art historian TJ Clark proves the brilliance of his eye – when he isn’t being recondite ...

Oscar-winning animated feature Flow explores the temporality of human monuments in a post-human world, seen through the eyes ...

from Shelley’s Ozymandias, in which artistic symbolism, political structures and the ruination of civilisations are intertwined. It’s a fittingly intelligent reference for one of the most insightful ...

Capitalism, outside times of crisis and convulsion, regards art either as a pretty plaything or a generator ... The title of Clark’s collection is taken from Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”, lines from ...

Watchmen is the most acclaimed comic of all time. Every great comic gets compared to it, and for good reason. Writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons created a story that took the comic medium and ...

Art is hot in Warsaw—blazing even more at ... But like the ruined colossus in Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias,” the looming shadow of the Palace of Culture and Science, now a mishmash of ...

Usually focused on a distant future or an alternative reality, sci-fi lets us dream up the wildest dreams; it's been true ...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers three group shows that delve into the rich traditions of Asian art. The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion ...

This hidden math in some abstract paintings may even underlie our ability to recognise such artwork as depictions of trees, according to the research, published in the journal PNAS Nexus.