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 ...
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 ...
MEXICO CITY — In places like Mexico City, where conceptual art with an overt socio-political agenda currently dominates, media such as sculpture, drawing, and painting go completely unnoticed, seen as ...
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 ...
“So the elephant in the room is that I’m doing a show in Miami during Art Basel Miami, which is one of the only times people ever come to Miami, to be honest,” says Hernan Bas. It’s a few weeks before ...
After a successful presentation of Dr. Bruce Onobrakpeya’s exhibition, Six Decades of Vision: A celebration of the art of printmaking in Nigeria, at the National Museum, Onikan Lagos last October, ...
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A Danish artist was given tens of thousands of dollars by a museum to reproduce an old sculpture. Instead, he pocketed the money and called it a new conceptual artwork. Take the Money and Run is the ...
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 ...
From Yoko Ono’s conceptual bodily performances to Natacha Stolz’s SpaghettiOs exhibition that flummoxed the netizens of the early aughts, performance art is equal parts avant-garde, action-oriented, ...
For many scholars of history, having personal, direct conversations with their chosen figure of study is nothing but an out-of-reach dream. For Ellen Tani, assistant professor of art history, that ...