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Oil on canvas with sequins 63⅝ × 61½ ins Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest
Robert Hughes • The Shock of the New
You explain that the white cube was initially only a variance of a rich tradition of differently coloured rooms in museums around 1900.
Niklas Maak • The white cube and beyond Museum display
1999 MoMA exhibition “The Museum as Muse,”
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
new styles in the world of art: abstract art, Dada, Cubism, Surrealism, Neo-Abstract art, Neo-Dada, pop and op.
Bruno Munari • Design as Art (Penguin Modern Classics)
Artists do not create contexts; they work within them. Context is the web of complex circumstances in which artists work in relation to their physical environment, historical trends and traditions, social movements, cultural values, intellectual perspectives, personal commitments, and more. Art originates from within a context. Likewise, art is rec
... See moreJames McCullough • Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation
My working definition of art is thus derived in part from both a moderate institutional theory that recognizes the important role that the museum space plays in determining meaning and mediating a history, tradition, and theory of what occurs in that space, and an ecological theory of art that affirms that in its making and viewing, art does someth
... See moreDaniel A. Siedell • God in the Gallery (Cultural Exegesis): A Christian Embrace of Modern Art

By this definition, art is less an object and more a process of exploration.