What Art Movements have emerged since I last took “Survey of Art” in 1974?

Answer 1

Since the mid-1970s, art historians often rely on the following categories of contemporary or postmodern art:

Graffiti/Street art, early 1980s (Keith Haring)

Neo-Expressionism, 1980s (Schnabel, Basquiat)

Pictures Generation, 1980s (Sherman, Koons, Holzer)

Feminist Art, 1980 -1990s (Guerrilla Girls)

Queer Art, 1980 -1990s (Opie, Maplethorpe, Torres)

Young British Artists, 1990s (Emin, Lucas)

New Leipzig School, 1990s (Rauch)

Relational Aesthetics, 1990 - 2000s

Internet Art, 1990s-2010s

Zombie Formalism, 2010s

Metamodernism, 2010s

It's worth noting that art critics, artists, and historians seem to use fewer and fewer references to contemporary art movements -- there might be a sort of 'genre fatigue' or less interest in a European, Modernist taxonomy of styles or views. Many of the newer 'movements,' such as Zombie Formalism, are used in a pejorative sense. Also, this list is far from comprehensive. There are many other tiny 'movements' (glitch art, seapunk, vaporwave, subsets in Internet Art, for instance) that I find interesting but not large enough to constitute a whole philosophy.