Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

The 17th-century Spanish master painted with a supernatural intensity that will hit you just as hard as it did his original viewers ...

What to make of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, dedicated to the arts of Africa, Oceania, and ancient America? Astonishing, frightening, and baffling are three ...

The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of cave art at three ...

This article posits a relation between the demise of "primitive art" and the revival of individual creativity as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Scarcely 100 years have passed since the ...

In this video, I create a dye from the cochineal insect to paint art on three different materials. Cochineal is a parasitic ...

Primitive aesthetics in the here-and-now digital world are expressed through art during "Digital Primitivism" running at Tang Contemporary Art until March 11. This is the first solo exhibition in ...