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 ...

Caravaggio, “The Seven Acts of Mercy” (c.1607), oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, image via Web Gallery of Art) I have been writing a book about art in the historic ...

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 ...

The history of conceptual art runs parallel to the history of big tech. Their peaks and valleys are the same — all you have to do is change the names and some (though not too many) of the buzzwords.

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 ...

Entering the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is like being transported to some sort of alternate reality, where it's okay or even normal to have a Titian just hanging around. As visitors enter, an ...

This painting is inspired by the night of June 24. The shortest night of the year. In the Basque culture, this night is very special, big bonfires are made to burn the bad thoughts and purify the ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

Los Angeles conceptual artist Marleene Rubenstein is known for creating a connection between the past and present with roots in Judaism. After showcasing her distinctive and beautiful creations at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, humbling the United ...

Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops. This week, the column takes us to Los Angeles, for Tinsel Town’s annual art week. I think I’ll remember this Frieze ...