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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