Let’s catalog a few important moments in the history of conceptual art: In 1917, Marcel Duchamp signed and dated a porcelain urinal, installed it on a plinth, and entered it into the first exhibition ...

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 ...

A piece by Chris Cobb in the new Believer—only the beginning of which is currently available online—describes the author's experience installing works by the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt at ...

Conceptual artist David Ireland died in 2009, but his artistic voice still resonates at 500 Capp Street, the San Francisco ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Conceptual art presents an important challenge for neuro-aesthetics. Such art helps to stimulate complex psychological events—beyond the ...

Mel Bochner, the American artist who played an essential role in the development of conceptual art in the 1960s and applied an irreverent sense of humour to his work across many media over the ensuing ...