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 ...

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, ...

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.

Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why?. Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why? Let's learn about "Conceptual Art," where the idea is more important than the ...

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 ...

Sub-cultural movements, especially those spearheaded by radical new styles of music, can often leave the larger cultures around them forever altered: punk rock, hip-hop, acid house and grime ushered ...