The separation of art from the exigency of usefulness is one of the more spectacular bifurcations in the history of aesthetics. It is a brilliant example of setting up a dichotomy where none ...

I say we could simply retitle The Daily Beast's survey as "The 13 Most Useful College Majors" and it would be equally valid. After all, who's more important today, Rembrandt or the people who bought ...

Italian designers JVLT (JoeVelluto) presented a collection of useless objects at gallery Spazio Libero during art fair Artissima in Turin, Italy, last month. The collection, called UseLess is More, ...

From useful-looking, useless art in Sheffield to a retrospective of cult legend Jack Smith in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what's happening in art around the country ...

Though she’s a successful furniture designer, Yolanda “Yola” Perez Johnson hopes she can return to her art “that nobody liked.” A student of Roberto Chabet, proponent of conceptual art (art that ...