Installation view of Birgir Andrésson: As Far as the Eye Can See at the Reykjavik Art Museum Kjarvalsstaðir, 2022. Pictured, "Blackest Night" (2006), wallpainting, size variable. Collection of the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, humbling the United ...
“The Maze and Snares of Minimalism” (1993) by Carl Andre in front of Alfred Jensen’s “The World As It Really Is” (1977), on view in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum The ...
Conceptual art can follow some pretty rigorous guidelines, but to make compelling art you also need to break the rules. Both principles resound in “Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth ...
Introduction / Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens -- Conceptual art as a kind of art -- On perceiving conceptual art / Peter Lamarque -- The dematerialization of the object / Derek Matravers -- ...
Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops. This week, the column takes us to Los Angeles, for Tinsel Town’s annual art week. I think I’ll remember this Frieze ...
Expect Bay Area Conceptualism to nose out Bay Area Figuration as the new label of regional cultural pride. All right, maybe not soon. But institutions on both sides of the bay lately have paid fresh, ...
Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, 4 feet wide and 4 inches thick, sits on the gravel covered ground. “Dark” is a legendary 1968 sculpture, one that ...
Introduction : An invisible college in an Anglo-American world / Michael Corris -- The Formalist connection and originary myths of conceptual art / Frances Colpitt -- Content, context, and conceptual ...
Commentator Andrei Codrescu says the real conceptual artists are working on the Web now. He compares what is being done online favorably with the best museum pieces that went up and then were ...
Best known for his large mirrored installations, he played with ideas about spectacle and perception in a vast array of genres. By Will Heinrich Dan Graham, a contrarian polymath best known, despite ...