Jonathan Harris, The Global Contemporary Art

The Market for Contemporary Art

Participation in Contemporary Art

This presentation aims at providing a better understanding of the role, origin and evolution of participation in contemporary art with a specific focus on technology and participation. It will also provide an overview of participative art models developed in the last decade and the trend they created.

Socially Engaged Art Education: The Impact of Contemporary Art

Exposing students to socially engaged art encompasses a meaningful opportunity of connecting progressive education to contemporary arts. This grounded theoretical study explored the impact of contemporary art and street art (JR and Swoon) as a means of promoting social change through aspects of art education. The foundation of the study was structured on analyzed interviews conducted with art e...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

CRITICIZING ART Understanding the Contemporary (excerpts)

Although a popular misconception about art criticism is that it is primarily judgmental and negative in tone, in actuality, most of the words written by critics are descriptive and interpretive rather than judgmental, and positive in tone. Critics seek to provide readers with information about artworks, and describing these artworks, many of which will not be seen by their readers. is one of th...