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Giovanni Anselmo, a key figure in the radical Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s, died in Turin on December 18 at the age of eighty-nine.

Giovanni  Anselmo played a pivotal role in the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s, exploring themes of nature, the finite and the indefinite...

The estate of the late artist, who used language as his medium, will be represented by Pace in Asia with a focus on Korea.

PROBABLY THE OBSERVATION by Virginia Overton cited most often by writers came on the occasion of her 2013 exhibition at Switzerland’s Kunsthalle Bern. Wishing to tease out the artist’s thoughts on the found objects used for her sculpture, the exhibition’s curator, Fabrice Stroun, asked a relatively straightforward—if historically loaded—question: Is “a piece of wood looked at in a space consecrated for art . . . no longer the same piece of wood found on the side of the road”? It’s a reasonable line of inquiry, particularly given that Overton’s work suggests some nominal under...

A pioneer of the Conceptual art movement, he used words as his métier more than any other artist of his generation.