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Cycling a canvas through sun and rain to let weather finish it
Can a theory of art be falsified by a single work?
LeWitt's sentences about conceptual art are still the best description of it
What is left to look at when the idea is stated in the title?
Reinstalling a conceptual piece is an interpretation not a copy
How do you conserve a piece that was never an object?
Collectors buy the conversation not the object
Advertising absorbed conceptual strategies faster than museums did
Dematerialization promised to escape the market and the market adapted
Conceptual art made language a medium and criticism followed
Who owns a work that exists only as an instruction?
Documentation is not the work and that is the whole problem
Anonymous self-portraits that show only the back of the head
Letting mold grow on a canvas as a living surface and then stopping it
Concept-first teaching leaves graduates unable to build anything
The death of the author still haunts every artist statement
Why conceptual art looks like administration from the inside
What does the institutional theory of art actually explain about a urinal?
When theory itself becomes the subject of the artwork
The certificate of authenticity is the real body of the work
The viewer's labor is the material in most conceptual work
Did conceptual art fail or did it just become the default?
The readymade was the most disruptive idea in twentieth-century art
Some artists deliberately start work they do not know how to finish
Generative art made with code raises authorship questions