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Rodney Graham, Who Bridged the Absurd and Conceptual, Dies at 73

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 25, 2022October 26, 2022

During his more than 50-year-long career, Graham pushed the limits of documentary and fiction.

Posted inArt

The Quality of Mercy, From Caravaggio to Conceptual Art

by David Carrier April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Like art, morality persists despite dramatic cultural transformations.

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A Historic Conceptual Art Group Has Taken Over a French Château

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky October 14, 2019

For the last few years, the Château de Montsoreau has been home to one of the most significant museums of contemporary art outside of Paris.

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Leandro Erlich Plays on the Cusp of Reality

by Silvia Rottenberg August 20, 2019August 20, 2019

The Argentine conceptual artist reminds us that imagination can transform reality into art.

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Escaping the Neo-Conceptualist Bubble

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli May 4, 2019May 5, 2019

An exhibition that questions whether art can be based on formulas without becoming formulaic.

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Japan’s Radical Conceptual Art of the 1960s

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez April 6, 2019April 7, 2019

An exhibition at Japan Society makes room in the modernist canon for the heady, playful ideas of free-thinking renegades.

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Allen Ruppersberg, a Conceptual Artist in Love with the Physical World

by Matt Stromberg March 27, 2019March 28, 2019

Ruppersberg, who has lived between Los Angeles and New York since the 1960s, pushes the ordinary toward the extraordinary in wildly divergent works.

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In Search of Bas Jan Ader, the Artist Who Disappeared at Sea

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan November 30, 2016July 22, 2022

In 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic. The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance.

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7 Artists, 25 Pages Each, 1 Half-Century Later: Revisiting the Xerox Book

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan October 22, 2015October 22, 2015

In 1968, Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler published the first edition of the so-called “Xerox Book.” The untitled publication, which was conceived as an exhibition in itself — and is currently the subject of a show at Paula Cooper Gallery — is now considered a seminal artist book.

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On Kawara’s Polite Conceptualism

by Peter Malone March 30, 2015April 15, 2015

As my entry into the art world took place just a few years after the Museum of Modern Art’s 1970 Information show, I’ve grown increasingly conscious of an unexpected turn in the positions of several hard-line members of the once aggressively anti-aesthetic conceptual camp.

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Kenneth Goldsmith Remixes Michael Brown Autopsy Report as Poetry

by Jillian Steinhauer March 16, 2015March 19, 2015

This past weekend, at a conference called Interrupt 3 at Brown University, poet Kenneth Goldsmith read Michael Brown’s St. Louis County autopsy report as a poem.

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Mel Chin’s Media Hacks and Conceptual Beauty

by John d'Addario March 3, 2014March 5, 2014

NEW ORLEANS — Considering that one of Mel Chin’s most audacious works appeared before an audience of millions on network television over a two-year period, it’s curious that he’s not more of a household name.

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