For those uninitiated into its history, conceptual art can often seem like a trick — is that really a urinal in an art gallery? Is sticking yogurt caps on gallery walls really great art? Unfortunately ...

“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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

'Comedian' by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and 'Insertions into Ideological Circuits' by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles — Foto: Photos by Kena Betancur/AFP and courtesy release Five years ago, ...

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 ...

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 ...