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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

When was the last time you considered what a photograph could do? It feels like an esoteric question, particularly when at a time when everyone is carrying a high definition camera in their back ...