Before the 1980s, abstract painting typically embraced pure form — gesture or geometry as something self-contained, insulated from outside contamination. Over the past generation, however, another ...

Conceptual artist Mel Ramsden called conceptual art, "...modernism`s nervous breakdown." After nearly forty years critics and artists are still defining conceptual art, even as it has since been ...

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 ...

Art Making Space for Painting in Mexico City, Where Conceptual Art Reigns MEXICO CITY — In places like Mexico City, where conceptual art with an overt socio-political agenda currently dominates, media ...

A few eyebrows were raised when Ivan Massow was appointed as chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 1999. Massow, who had not previously been much known for his interest in ...

The Japanese-American artist, who died in late June, challenged the notion that conceptual art appeals to the head alone, writes Jason Farago. Most artists’ names, on the walls of museums, appear with ...

Under what circumstances does painting turn into conceptual art? You can see it happen in the work of German artist Markus Linnenbrink at Sweetow, which at first looks excessively optical. Viewer ...