conceptual art

We are Still Living with Barbara Kruger’s Questions

Artist Barbara Kruger’s iconic 1990 mural is an artwork for today, and offers an essential lesson about difficult questions.

Yoko Ono Made Bottles of Night Air into Poetry (+ a Song)

These bottles of Night Air by Yoko Ono remind us of the jar of air we brought back from Ireland, to capture and remember that exact time and place…and air.

Stuart Ringholt: ‘Can Art Be Super Practical and Improve My Life?’

This compelling chair made of a sawed-in-half bathtub is the creation of artist Stuart Ringholt who, in the throws of hashish psychosis, wondered if art can be practical. In making art, he found his answer.

Daniel Buren’s Clear Spaces

When we stumbled on this space designed by Conceptual Artist Daniel Buren we thought, “that’s our perfect writing space“. Why? We were’t even sure, except that we loved that it was spare, yet adorned in a way that sparked our thinking rather than cluttering it. So we looked for more.

LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #797: Conceptual + Practical = Wonderful

(Video link here.) While we’re taking a week off to rest and regroup, we thought we’d leave you with this time-lapse of a Sol LeWitt wall drawing being created, per the late artist’s instruction, at Blanton Museum of Art. It embodies the combo platter that is Improvised Life: an artist’s idea that is possible to apply at…

an artwork we mistook for chic, minimalist gift wrap

We saw this image of a gift and thought “What a chic, minimalist gift-wrap”, and saved it to look at more closely later. When we did, we discovered it is actually an artwork called ‘set it free’ by maryanne casasanta. It’s a photograph of a wrapped copy of ddddoomed, or, collectors & curators of the image…