On its 50th anniversary, in 1979, New York’s Museum of Modern Art coined the term “sound art” in the title of an exhibition of three female artists who were, as visionary curator Barbara London put it ...

But it can also be joyful.” The Denver-based Clyfford Still Museum, which collects 93% of the late artist’s work, is embracing the idea that visual art inspires sound. That applies even to Still’s ...

Sound art has an identity crisis. Trapped between experimental music and traditional art mediums, it suffers from inaccessibility and an elitist, academic “cost of entry” requirement in order to ...

Massimo Bartolini, “In A Landscape” (2017) (courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London) The title makes reference to Steve Reich’s 1970 composition of the same name, his for four electric ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter With the appearance of Susan Philipsz, an artist who works primarily with sound, on this year's Turner Prize shortlist, it seems that ...

In case you haven’t been tracking the progress of group exhibitions of sound art, a short history would be: they are generally a disaster, with many works either impossible to hear adequately in the ...

Susan Philipsz and John Cage have shown that the genre has claims to greatness, but two works in Edinburgh betray the emptiness of much sound art Sunlight is streaming into an Edinburgh chapel. On ...

Styles vary, but an interest in listening as a creative act is central. Ars Electronica Liquid Architecture 2014 will take place in various locations in Australia and Singapore from tomorrow to ...

Last month, Ars Electronica announced the winners of their annual Prix Ars Electronica, which awards art on the interface of technology, science and society. The jury was tasked with narrowing down ...

Sound is something of an ephemeral phenomenon, existing in the moment that vibrations travel through the air. Those vibrations also exhibit distinct patterns, depending on frequency, which can be ...