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Global Conceptualism successfully squashes both of these notions. The layout of the exhibit manages to present these monochromatic, text-heavy, conceptualist pieces in their most appealing light. Due in part to a shortage in space (the exhibit was originally held at the somewhat larger Queens Museum of Art in New York), there isn't much white wall space to spare, and, for a show full of conceptual pieces, this is a boon: each room presents a rich, appealing, visually stimulating array of sculptures, treatises, photographs and pieces of music. And the organization of the show into regions, each curated separately...
...strolled through the Yard this weekend, I came upon a freshman dormitory wrapped entirely in plastic--clearly the work of the conceptualist artist and '70s icon, "Christo," who is better known for having enclosed a small Pacific island and the London Bridge entirely in Gore...
...equal in its impact on artists in the '90s to the one Picasso had in the '80s. We are at present surrounded with art of depressing triviality -- the detritus of late postmodernism; with art that lays claim to remedial social virtue and yet "addresses" social issues in a depleted conceptualist language that is as socially ineffective as it is aesthetically boring. Artists are scared by the past and don't believe in the future...
...conceit his master would visit on him. Dusted in flour, tricked up as an elephant, wrapped head to toe in Christmas-tree garlands, he had the comic gravity of Buster Keaton and the acrobatic ambiguities of a four-legged pun. The pictures made Wegman, until then a lesser-known Conceptualist, the kind of artist who gets invited on Carson and Letterman. Four years after Man Ray died in 1982, Wegman acquired Fay Ray, a chocolaty female of the same breed who has been his muse and model ever since...
...only the loopy dog pictures that click. Situated somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's cunning art pranks and David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, they rib Conceptualism even as they lay out its possibilities. But in the end their effectiveness rests upon powers of portrait psychology that owe little to Conceptualist mind games...