So, let’s just go for it. What the hell happened in art history after the 1950s when the real, discrete art movements started to break down? That’s right — we’re taking the bull by the horns here, ...
Early in 2024, I got to interview one of my favorite writers, the critic Lucy Lippard, about her book Stuff: Instead of a Memoir, for the Art Angle. The book covers Lippard’s life via the objects in ...
The movement in five works. By Julia Halperin One of the earliest and most famous conceptual artworks is “Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp: a porcelain urinal the artist submitted to an exhibition in 1917.
Allen Ruppersberg, “The Singing Posters: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by Allen Ruppersberg (Parts I-III)” (2003/2005) (detail), commercially printed letterpress posters (all photos by the author for ...
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 ...
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 ...
At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 79-year-old artist Charles Gaines wants to shatter your expectations. In the case of its centerpiece, “Falling Rock,” that’s taken somewhat literally. The ...
“Skin is a medium,” says Ievgenii Matsapura, lifting his eyes from a folder of sketches. His studio carries a distinct and immersive atmosphere — one that invites close observation, reflection, and ...
New MMCA exhibition revisits Korea's language-driven avant-garde Conceptual art emerged in the West in the 1960s, emphasizing artist ideas or concepts over the appearance or form of an artwork. It ...