Pocket watches, invented around the turn of the seventeenth century, were popular status items among the European rich by the year 1625

The visual and material culture of outsiders—bikers, tattooers, carnies, and others—tends to orbit around, participate in, and influence aspects of the fine arts.

In June of 1962, the newly born Students for a Democratic Society met at a United Auto Workers country retreat to draft a manifesto to serve what was clearly beginning to emerge from the civil rights movement: a new left in the United States.

When I saw The Last Supper in person for the first time I was shocked to discover that it was essentially not there.

These outlaw customizers appropriated the raw materials of commercial carmakers' output and turned them in on themselves to create eccentric, even bizarre, modern looking units which subverted the uniform, anonymous and efficient modes being proffered as new objects of desire by Detroit.

This exhibition of nine artists includes work that participates in a range of ways to torment paper that includes cutting, hanging, piercing, laying on the floor, molding, wrapping, making dioramas, and building ephemeral objects.

The world is invisible to us until we are ready to see it.

In Out of the Cold uses the end of the Cold War as a tool to show artists reflecting on not only the difficulties of that historic period but on the related themes of dislocation, diaspora, and exile, and how all those effects have impacted on our understanding of who we are

THE HALL OF FAME HALL OF FAME celebrates the uniquely American phenomenon of the hall of fame—a grass roots museum that reflects the passions, concerns and beliefs of twentieth-century America.

How does it happen that a person becomes an artist, especially when there is no precedent among family members, or in the way one is raised?

Pia Farrenkopf's sad and lonely death was made notable by a fluke. In 2009 at age 49, Farrenkopf died alone in her car in the garage of her Pontiac, Michigan, tract home. With no relatives or friends, and with all her bills paid electronically, it took half a decade for her money to run out, the bank to foreclose on her house, and her mummified body to be discovered.

MARK THOMPSON has been an artist's artist in the Bay Area for three decades. By that I mean someone who has been enormously influential on other artists, is greatly respected among his peers and has created an imposing body of innovative work, but through it all has received only sporadic and inadequate curatorial and journalistic attention.