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 ...
A sculpture by Sol LeWitt in the gardens of the Paul Klee Center in Berne, Switzerland. (via flickr.com/maxbucher) With long time champion of the most boring cerebral ...
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 Miami’s Art Basel a few weeks ago, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a $120,000 banana duct-taped to the wall, took the Internet by storm. Cattelan had the credibility to pull off such a ridiculous ...
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 ...
In 2011, the American Dream has deteriorated to looking like an empty office space with abandoned cubicles, lone water fountains and abandoned family photographs of the past employees. On two floors ...