conceptual art

Let the (Logo) Games Begin

This Friday, more than 10,000 international athletes will descend upon Beijing, China to compete in the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. The 17-day games will feature 302 events across 28 different sports, and will draw an unparalleled number of viewers from television, on-line, and mobile devices worldwide. The competition will feature the first digital broadcast of the Olympics, and will boast the largest number of host cities, highest number of doping tests and most merchandise-ready mascots (five...

Sketch of Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Hey, Harry Potter fans, visit www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter for another piece of conceptual art for the upcoming (2010, they say) Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure. Two words: Three Broomsticks.

'Totally Rad': The Irony and Agony of the '80s Art Scene

In midsummer, when many galleries wrap up the season with group shows, Paul Kasmin Gallery is adding a welcome twist to an old routine. "Totally Rad" combines works by several gallery artists with significant additional paintings, sculptures, and photographs to offer a plangent sampling of New York art from the "go-go 80s." The decade of the 1980s saw the resurgence of painting and conceptual art under hyphenated labels ("Neo-Expressionism," "Neo-Conceptualism," "Neo-Geo") that reflected the...

Margate residents angry at artist selling their sand at £18 a jar

An artist friend of Tracey Emin has angered residents at a seaside resort by selling the sand from their beach at £18 a jar as "conceptual art".

My stuffed shark is cooler than your stuffed shark

There's a new book coming out by Don Thompson that takes a look at the bizarre economics of conceptual art called The $12 Million Stuffed Shark. Thompson talks about why Damien Hirst's 1991 stuffed shark art piece was more successful...

Portland Art Museum shows Ed Ruscha's Diptych 'Azteca / Azteca in Decline'

PORTLAND, OR - Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. Since the 1960s, he has used language and popular imagery drawn from American highways and cities. Often startlingly cinematic in image and format, Ruscha’s work has defined an important branch of conceptual art practice on the West Coast and is characterized by a sly humor and virtuosic trompe l’oeil technique. On view at The Portland Art Museum through 21 September, 2008.

"Soul and Body" @ the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

André Kertész [Kertész Andor]: Satirical Dancer, 1926 / printed circa 1967 (c) courtesy of the Estate of André Kertész / Hungarian Museum of Photography BUDAPEST.- The photography exhibition Soul and Body at the Museum of Fine Arts has attracted more than 30 thousand visitors since its opening in early June, which makes it the most frequented Hungarian exhibition of photographic art. More than 220 works by some 90 artists, including André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, Brassaï, Robert C...

Eleanor Antin ~ "Historical Takes" solos at San Diego Museum of Art

SAN DIEGO, CA - The San Diego Museum of Art presents Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes, on view through November 2, 2008. Organized by SDMA, this solo exhibition features the work of celebrated conceptual artist Eleanor Antin. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin’s recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based on Greek and Roman history and mythology, which are presented together for the first time.

Cottage Industry: Andrea Zittel

This week I'm been posting about Cottage Industry at the Baltimore Contemporary. Today: Andrea Zittel. While at times Cottage Industry isn't much to look at, it's a show that you can't help taking home with you. Whether it's Lisa Anne Auerbach's tracts or Andrea Zittel's smockshop, installation after installation encourages visitors to have art-ish what-if moments. (Most have online homes, which makes it extra-easy to follow-up on what interests you.) Everything Andrea Zittel does gives me what-...

Exposition "Call it what you like" en Dinamarca

Del 15 de Junio al 28 de Septiembre 2008 en la Kunst Centre Silkeborg Bad, Dinamarca. Como dice en el sitio Oficial, en inglés: Our visitors can look forward to strong art pieces and expressions, where the artists by means of humour and intense colours try to break up ideas about art. This is really a good possibility to get insight in central aspects of contemporary art. The inspiration derives from conceptual art, minimalism and pop art of the 1960's and 1970's. The exhibition has b