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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ceal Floyer—an artist known for her subtly humorous, conceptual films and installations that utilised everyday objects—died ...

Out in the back garden of Marian Goodman Gallery in Hollywood, a solid steel square, 4 feet wide and 4 inches thick, sits on the gravel covered ground. “Dark” is a legendary 1968 sculpture, one that ...

Conceptual art (or “Conceptualism”) is difficult to define. Essentially it is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work takes precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.

This weekend, Frieze, the contemporary art fair, returns to New York City's Randall's Island. Thus far, there has been talk of little else but FOOD 1971/2013, an installation that recreates the artist ...