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 ...

“The Maze and Snares of Minimalism” (1993) by Carl Andre in front of Alfred Jensen’s “The World As It Really Is” (1977), on view in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum The ...

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 ...

Introduction / Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens -- Conceptual art as a kind of art -- On perceiving conceptual art / Peter Lamarque -- The dematerialization of the object / Derek Matravers -- ...

She didn’t exactly mean it metaphorically. New York City Department of Sanitation workers were the focus of much of this artist’s work. So much so that she’s been the official but unsalaried “artist ...

What's the big idea? Ger van Elk's The Co-Founder of the Word O.K.— Marken (No. 5), 1971Ger van Elk Amsterdam was a hotbed of conceptual art in the 1960s and ’70s. In its damp studios and fetid cafés, ...

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 ...

Artist John Baldessari died last Thursday at his home in Venice, Calif. The artist helped shape not just a movement — conceptual art — but the LA art scene itself. He was 88. Now a moment to remember ...

What do you do if you lose the certificate of authenticity for your conceptual artwork? Up until now, your sole option was basically to cry and mourn the loss of whatever chunk of change you plunked ...