Art Theory

As an art has never been allowed to be complicated

A few weeks ago, I came across a study on the evolution of popular music. The researchers analyzed thousands of […]

A few years ago, I was standing in front of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna with a group of friends.

Part 3: Why Have We Learned to Distrust Beauty? After spending so much time thinking about kitsch, I began to

Part 2: Does Universal Kitsch Even Exist? In the first part of this series, we explored a deceptively simple question:

Part 1: What Is Kitsch? A Question Every Artist Should Ask During one of my many journeys through Italy, I

The impertinence to look the other way It has become one of the art world’s most cherished habits to treat

Perhaps the valued reader has noticed that public debates repeatedly flare up around the question of what art is —

Josef Volsa / April 27, 2026

It did not begin with a theory, but with irritation. Standing once again in Florence before Michelangelo, I found myself