conceptual art
noun
variants
often Conceptual art
: an art form in which the artist's intent is to convey a concept rather than to create an art object
conceptual artist
noun
often Conceptual artist
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Air de Paris, the Paris gallery known for its punk ethos and for its prescient and enduring commitment to cutting-edge Conceptual art, will close this week amid bankruptcy proceedings, Cultured magazine reports.
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News Desk, Artforum, 12 May 2026
If all of this seems laden with meaning of the kind that often attends conceptual art in 2026—colonialism, empire, fraught ideas of foreigness and exoticness—you, like me, will have read Akhavan’s intentions completely wrong.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
There was a time when AI art was seen as a burgeoning form of conceptual art.
—Ahmed Elgammal, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
Those Weimar masters bore fruit in the mature careers of Bernd and Hilla Becher, the postwar Düsseldorf duo who blurred the line between photography and conceptual art with their gray-on-gray depictions of industrial architecture.
—J.s. Marcus, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026
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News Desk, Artforum, 12 May 2026
If all of this seems laden with meaning of the kind that often attends conceptual art in 2026—colonialism, empire, fraught ideas of foreigness and exoticness—you, like me, will have read Akhavan’s intentions completely wrong.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
There was a time when AI art was seen as a burgeoning form of conceptual art.
—Ahmed Elgammal, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
Those Weimar masters bore fruit in the mature careers of Bernd and Hilla Becher, the postwar Düsseldorf duo who blurred the line between photography and conceptual art with their gray-on-gray depictions of industrial architecture.
—J.s. Marcus, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Conceptual art.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceptual%20art. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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