The Case For
In this collection, The Art Assignment investigates popular artists and art movements.
What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick?
The Case for Realism
What's wrong with seeing the unclothed human body? And what is its place in art?
The Case for Nudity
Look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today.
The Case for Land Art
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory.
The Case for Surrealism
How are we supposed to deal with art completely removed from recognizable objects?
The Case for Abstraction
Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless...
The Case for Ai Weiwei
You may have seen a few cubes in an art gallery and questioned why they were there.
The Case for Minimalism
Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin?
