It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future…

Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us…

— Astra Taylor

[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an…

— Richard Rorty

“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and…

— Sverker Sörlin

I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that utopian dreams…

— Rutger Bregman

“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over…

— Grant H. Kester

“Is there a Swedish Modernism?”

— Cecilia Widenheim

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises…

— Harold Rosenberg

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating…

— Ellen Lupton

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

— Lucy DeVito

“The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man.…

— Neville Weston

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité…

— George Hickenlooper

Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have…

— Sarah Vowell

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're…

— Teju Cole

Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to be a…

— Munira Mirza

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

— Christopher Wood