Western art history doesn’t move in a straight line toward improvement. It advances through breaks—moments when artists reject inherited assumptions and redefine what art is for. The visible…
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Lines in Four Directions is a 90-by-72-foot sculpture by the late artist …
Danish artist Jens Haaning has been ordered to repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark $71,000 for delivering framed empty canvases in breach of a contract to update earlier…
Intimately connected with the conceptual and minimalist art movements, American artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) used geometric shapes, lines and curves, along with abstract swathes of color to explore…
Biography necessarily runs hand in hand with visual-art production. For sculptor and conceptual artist Russell Maltz, living and making are one and the same thing. That said, the affable,…
In his debut, solo exhibition, Garage Sale: Ain’t Sh!t Gucci, Harlem-based Conceptual Artist, Sean “Belchez” Cort offers his perspective on the positioning of black and brown bodies as commodities,…
Celebrated for his stylish sculptures of decaying technological devices and crumbling cultural artifacts, Daniel Arsham makes art that looks…
The so-called father of conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp’s influence on modern and contemporary art…
The artworld enters 2020 with a little less humor. John Baldessari, often called the father of conceptual art, died on January 2 at the age of 88.
Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg (b. 1944, Cleveland) moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s with the goal of becoming an illustrator, but soon became active in an emerging scene led by…
Taking a contemporary perspective, the Whitney is looking back through their collection, reviewing how programming has evolved in modern and contemporary art. Programmed: Rules,…
A pioneer of institutional critique, artist Hans Haacke creates conceptual works that expose connections among money, art, and politics. Haacke recounts the realizations that inspired him to…
Bay Area Conceptual artist Paul Kos finds inspiration by visiting the nearby Sierra Nevada mountains. Being immersed in nature not only sparks his creative process, but also frees him from the…
Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why? Let's learn about "Conceptual Art," where the idea is more important than the form.
New York - Phillips will present Life is hard… Let’s go shopping, a selection of works from the collection of Masamichi…
