Among the ubiquitous plates, tea towels and boomerangs sent to the Museum of Contemporary Art is a rare artefact: an Australian explorer board game by the long-defunct manufacturer Murfett Games. Its ...

Roosevelt needed to get America ready to fight and he already knew that his efforts to help unemployed Americans find themselves in social realist art would have to be abandoned. American art had to ...

Flower centerfold from Sara Cwynar’s ‘The Kitsch Encyclopedia,’ published by Blonde Art Books (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Alicia Eler: In the introduction, you describe the premise of ...

Art scholar Michio Hayashi theorized that the popular perception of “Japaneseness” in the West was cemented in the 1980s by triangulating “kitsch hybridity,” “primordial nature,” and “technological ...