ArtBabble: Conceptual Art

The Language of Less (Then and Now): Tony Conrad

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:58:04 +0000

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Artist Tony Conrad provides an impromptu explanation of "Yellow Movie 2/28/73." Featured in the exhibition, The Language of Less (Then and Now), Conrad candidly describes the conceptual development and artistic process behind his response to the art of film making.

Tang Museum: Artist Marco Castillo of Los Carpinteros on Life in Havana

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:50:30 +0000

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Tang Museum: Opener Series

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

In this video, Marco Castillo, one part of the duo Los Carpinteros (Spanish for “the Carpenters”), discusses how everyday life in Havana informs their artwork.

Tang Museum: Artists Respond to "The Jewel Thief"

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:05:04 +0000

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

In this video, artists Jim Hodges, Liz Larner, Virgil Marti, Richard Rezac, and John Torreano discuss the experience of working on The Jewel Thief and the challenges and excitement of being part of this eclectic group exhibition.

Brian McCutcheon: Artist Talk

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:11:44 +0000

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Talks

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Indianapolis-based conceptual artist Brian McCutcheon discusses the new body of work that comprises Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World, his first major solo museum exhibition, opening in the McCormack Forefront Galleries. Grounded in the technological and fantastical world of space exploration, McCutcheon’s show functions as a children’s book narrative replete with rocket trajectories and moon landings.

About Divining Meteorology

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:23:52 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson (b. 1977) forges a captivating exploration of forces of nature and the passage of time through his inventive, often poetic interventions into natural and man-made environments. Hear from the artist and curator Sarah Green about Divining Meteorology and how it works.

Charles Gaines in His Studio

Hammer Museum — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:16:32 +0000

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Hammer Museum

In November, 2010 we visited Charles Gaines in his studio to discuss his work in the exhibition "All of this and nothing", the "Manifestos". Gaines has been described as "one of the first, if not the first, African American, to work in the field of conceptual art." He is interested in how one experiences art and derives meaning from it. He focuses on the internal politics that form our ideas and feelings toward art, expressed through linguistic tools such as metaphors and metonyms.

Divining Meteorology: William Lamson

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:21:13 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

To create Divining Meteorology, Lamson reanimated a former communications tower by transforming it into an instrument. Originally designed to withstand the trials of nature, this monumental tower was relocated from the Missouri countryside to the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion and re-engineered to fit inside the space, as if it had collapsed into itself.

Artist Talk & Performance: Tom Marioni

Hammer Museum — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:45:32 +0000

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HAMMER LECTURES

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Hammer Museum

A key figure in the invention of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Tom Marioni’s identity as artist, writer, and curator defies categorization. In 1970, he founded the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco as a venue to support his own work and that of his friends and colleagues, and he has published his writings in various periodicals and books. Through the decades, Marioni has continued to, in his words, “observe real life and report on it poetically”, amassing a body of work comprised of drawings, prints, actions, and writings that articulate his desire to unite people and ideas.

Remains- BA Harrington

Chipstone — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:16:55 +0000

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Remains

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Chipstone

Conceptual artist BA Harrington uses dower chests, as well as the dichotomy between female labor and male labor, as her inspiration for the sculptural installations in Remains. The Remains exhibition took place at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Remains- Sarah Lindley

Chipstone — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:16:06 +0000

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Remains

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Chipstone

Sarah Lindley's Mirage does not cite a specific piece of furniture, but instead references various elements and various periods, abstracting the forms, and leaving the emotional connection that one feels to the pieces of furniture themselves.
The Remains exhibition took place at the Milwaukee Art Museum.