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Grade three and four students at New York's Trinity School have once again created a collection of wooden chairs that express their personalities.

The illuminated fluorescent sculpture available on Artnet Auctions is emblematic of Dan Flavin's mature Minimalist work.

Best known for his large mirrored installations, he played with ideas about spectacle and perception in a vast array of genres.

ON NOVEMBER 20, 2021, the artist Gala Porras-Kim wrote a letter to Jane Pickering, director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: “I am interested in objects suspended from their original function or purpose by being stored and displayed in institutions solely as historical objects,” she began. This could easily describe any number of the millions of objects held by the museum, but Porras-Kim’s focus was on the Peabody’s collection of thousands of artifacts found in...

De Wain Valentine's use of unusual industrial materials was instrumental in the Southern California artistic movement.

Artist whose prodigious career spanned video, photography, sculpture and performance

The conceptual artist and writer wasn’t afraid to stir things up, but he was also a great spotter and supporter of other people’s talent, writes Christopher Turner

American artist and writer Dan Graham, whose hybrid conceptual output warped perceptions and defied genre has died in New York aged 79.

The artist, Dan Graham, has died over the weekend in New York. Graham’s influence over the past half-century as a writer, photographer, architect, sculptor, filmmaker and performance artist is a great loss to the contemporary art world. Since the 1960s his groundbreaking endeavours in video, installation and audience participation – including such legendary and confrontational […]

Nicole Hollis brings star power to a storied Tudor Revival home.