Damien Hirst – love him or hate him – is probably today’s wealthiest artist. Some say that he is a symbol of bad art and senseless consumption. To my mind, he has probably done more than any other single artist to mock the very art world itself, turn its pretentions to his own personal advantage [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Conceptual Art category.
A Monument To Nature Destroyed
Painstakingly over more than a decade, Israeli artist Shai Zakai has created a monument to man’s interaction with his environment and the consequences – overwhelmingly negative – of that interaction.
“Forest Tunes: The Library” is an installation consisting of collected items, photographs, video, text and a book.
The centerpiece of The Library is a collection of items [...]
A Long White Line
The beauty of conceptual art is that it sheds the fixation with the ‘art object’ and embarks on art as the exploration of an idea. Many conceptual artists have taken this further to create meaningful social interventions through their art. Eve Mosher is one such artist.
Last year, she embarked on HighWaterLine – a conceptual art [...]
