Conceptual Art

Street Art, Bomb Scares, and Times of Anxiety

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Nyc, Jean Seestadt, Conceptual Art, Revs, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Street Art, Olek, Painting, Xam, Street Art, Dark Clouds, Jaime Rojo, Welding, Williamsburg, Stikman, Steven P. Harrington, Stencil, Leviticus, Takeshi Miyakawa, Crochet, Aerosol, Darkclouds, Rae, Bzbd, Arts News

Last Friday morning all was going normally on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn as the cool, crisp breeze of a sunny May day made New York as it ...

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Mira Schor Reclaims Voice, Speech and Writing for Painting

G. Roger Denson | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Mira Schor, Conceptual Art, Painting, Writing, Postminimalism, Marvelli Gallery, Arts News

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It's Art, But Is It a Book?

Jules Siegel | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Artist Books, Modern Art, Book Art, Slidepollajax, Conceptual Art, Post-Modernist Books, Books News

The works depicted here will be in museums and collections while Masters: Book Arts will be in libraries. Masters: Book Arts is a collaborative, corporate work of art.

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Art, Honey and Explorations

Misha Lyuve | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Experiential, Conceptual Art, Honey, Exploration, Art, Rosemarie Padovano, Salve, New York Art, Video, Arts News

All the journeys have a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware -- Martin Buber Photo by Rosemarie Padovano, 2006. From Salve series...

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PHOTOS: Artists Expand Your Mind

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Installation Art, Mito Arts Tower, Conceptual Art, Jörg Lenzlinger, Gerda Steiner, Surreal, Psychology, Technology-Art, Technology, Gerda Steiner Jörg Lenzlinger, Surreal-Art, Sweden, Synthesis, Arts News

Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger are known for their site-specific installations that invite the viewer to be integrated into the work. Their expansi...

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Yoko Ono Returns For First Public UK Show In A Decade

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: London 2012, Installation Art, Video, Yoko Ono Artist, John Lennon, Conceptual Art, London 2012 Festival, Yoko Ono, Fluxus, UK Arts, Serpentine Gallery, Yoko Ono John Lennon, Fluxus Art, London 2012 Games, Arts News

Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatles' songwriter John Lennon is preparing for her first show in a UK public institution in over a decade. The exhibition, fe...

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Karen Knorr: "India Song," the Panchatantra of the 21st Century

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Danziger Gallery New York, Mausoleum, Palaces, Karen Knorr, Conceptual Art, Architecture, India, Digital Photography, Animals, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

In "India Song," each finished photograph is both a mystery and a fable.

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Tight Spot: The Meeting of Truth & Paranoia

Gabrielle Selz | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Installation Art, David Bryne, Tight Spot, Conceptual Art, Music, Distortion, Pace Gallery, The Highline, Sound Art, Video, Arts News

All recognizably representational art is a distortion. And these distortions can be either formal or emotional. However, in Tight Spot, David Byrne has done both.

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Conceptual Artist Roman Opalka Dies At 79

nytimes.com | WILLIAM GRIMES | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Conceptual Artist Dies, Art Death, Numbers, Artist Obituary, Conceptual Art, Artist Deaths, Obituaries, Obituary, Conceptual Artist, Roman Opalka, UK Arts, Roman Opalka Dead, Arts News

Roman Opalka, a leading conceptual artist who, beginning with the numeral one in 1965, methodically painted consecutive numbers on canvas in a march t...

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The Struggles Of Russian Street Art

Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Voina, Bbc, Conceptual Art, Animal New York, Protest Art, Graffiti, Vladimir Putin, Performance Art, Moscow, Englishrussia, UK Arts, Dmitry Medvedev, Banksy, Russian Street Art, Arts News

The first images of Russian street art that made it onto the blog circuit were unsettling. They weren't sorrowful like some of the works in Cairo, and...

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The 'Euthanasia Coaster' And The Art Of The Amusement Park

Posted 08.25.2011

Read More: Industrial Design, Julijonas Urbonas, Amusement Park, Lithuania, Conceptual Art, Royal College of Art, Sculpture, Euthanasia Coaster, Design, Roller Coaster, G-Force, Euthanasia, Gravity, Arts News

The "Euthanasia Coaster," a roller-coaster designed to be fatal, is a conceptual art piece and model for a more pleasant way to die. The sinister-...

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James Franco Raises Money To Make Non-Visible Art (VIDEO)

Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Art, Video, Weird News, Conceptual Art, Patronage, James Franco Art, William Faulkner, James Franco, New York, New York City, Arts News

It may sound like an adaptation of "The Emperor's New Clothes" but James Franco's new art project with Praxis (Brainard and Delia Carey), a conceptual...

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PHOTOS: Artistic Explorations Of Space

Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Cubism, Art, Conceptual Art, Video Art, Artists, Paul Cezanne, San Francisco, Art Galleries, Slidepollajax, Art Exhibitions, Emerging Artists, Arts News

The show "Pursuing a Calculated Distance" with works by Seth Curcio, Bradley Hyppa, and Benjamin Meyer is an exploration of visual perception and the...

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Delaunay, Camnitzer and Cone: Art, Transformations and Identity on an Upper Fifth Avenue Museum Stroll

Monroe Price | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Uruguay, Art Collecting, Textiles, Cooper Hewitt, El Museo Del Barrio, Conceptual Art, Jewish Museum, Arts News

Have these disparate institutions of upper 5th Avenue unconsciously created a kind of ode to the immigrant experience, drawn from three different eras, three geographical settings, three different roles and histories?

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WATCH: Ai Weiwei's Most Political Works

Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Video, Conceptual Art, Sunflower Seeds, Bird's Nest, Lisson Gallery, Sculpture, London, Bbc Arts, Ai Weiwei, China, Chinese Censorship, Arts News

With the media's extensive coverage of Ai Weiwei's politically-charged detention in China, reports have consistently described the provocateur as the ...

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The Egg, Inside and Out

Gabrielle Selz | Posted 06.19.2011

Hope Sandrow, an artist who has worked with complex photographic images, conceptual and installation art, has long been preoccupied with evolution and ecosystems.

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Diviner Dennis

Gabrielle Selz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Art, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Annual Rings, Artists, Performance Art, Peter Selz, Dennis Oppenheim, Death, Arts News

The late Dennis Oppenheim was a shaman, part magic man, part irritant, who endeavored to "critique" his ability to annoy, amuse and engage us all at once.

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Art Passing: Mark Kostabi Remembers Dennis Oppenheim

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Installation Art, Contemporary Art, Dennis Oppenheim, Art, Mark Kostabi, Public Art, Conceptual Art, Arts News

Artist Dennis Oppenheim passed away last week from liver cancer at age 72. Artist Mark Kostabi decried personal vendettas among influential art world powers that be in stalling coverage of the life of this mercurial modern master.

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Dennis Oppenheim, 1938-2011: The Man Who Made The World Nervous

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Conceptual Art, Environmental Art, Body Art, Arts, Erik Oppenheim, Performance Art, Arts News, Dennis Oppenheim, Arts News

By extending himself through the objects and signage of our desires, and thereby through us, Dennis made us retrace the poetry and artistry that reside in us.

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Art Stars: From Picasso to Damien Hirst

David Galenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Modern Art, Jeff Koons, Renaissance, Tracey Emin, Conceptual Art, Duchamp, Picasso, Rembrandt, Arianna Huffington, Arts News

A new book names Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and Tracey Emin as today's art stars -- and identifies Picasso and Duchamp as their predecessors. The connection? All made their personalities inseparable from their art.

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BLOGWATCH> Have You Been Inside Jame's Turrell's Bubble? Daily Serving Wants To Know

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interactive Art, Conceptual Art, dailyserving.com, New-York-Exhibitions, James Turrell, Design, Contemporary Art, Bubble, New-York-Exhibits, New York Art, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News

Have you been inside 'The Bubble'? It's the burning question floating around London's artworld these days. The number of smug souls who have entered ...

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BLOG WATCH> Secret Hidden Art At SFMOMA, See If You Can Find It On Juxtapoz

Current | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conceptual Art, Found Art, Museums, Sfmoma, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Art Residencies, San Francisco Art, Juxtapoz-Magazine, Arts News

We applaud low cost-high concept art. This past summer at SFMOMA, artist and curator Brion Nuda Rosch invited Chris Sollars to use SFMOMA as a site fo...

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Marina Abramovic's 'Rhythm' and 'Back To Simplicity' In London

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Conceptual Art, Video Art, Marina Abramovic, Sculpture, London Art Exhibitions, Lisson-Gallery, Performance Art, Exhibitions, Slidefullscreen, London-Galleries, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

WHO: Marina Abramovic WHEN: Until November 13, 2010 WHERE: Lisson Gallery 52-54 and 29 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA WHY: Lisson Gallery is pleased ...

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Blague d'Art: Up Against the Walls

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, 60s, Happenings, Art, Conceptual Art, Carolee Schneeman, Fluxus, Felipe Ehrenberg, Drawing, Performance Art, Street Theater, Painting, Identity Aesthetics, Feminism, Arts News

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Limited Edition Artworks for Sale in Unexpected Places

Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lawrence Weiner, Conceptual Art, Gilt Groupe, Brock Enright, 20x200, Contemporary Art, Limited-Editions, Art & Advisory, New York News

Image courtesy of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. "Penguin Paradox" (2010). Brock Enright. 13 color Silkscreen on 350 gsm Coventry Rag. 24 in x 18 in. E...

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