In the 1990s, as artists searched for new alternatives, many considered conceptual art of the 1970s an unfinished project.
YBA and art as commodity
This work is an example of provocation with a purpose.
Marc Quinn, Self
Haacke documents the provenance of a Seurat sketch held in a bank vault to lay bare the commodification of art.
Hans Haacke, Seurat’s “Les Poseuses” (small version), ...
This loosely formed group of artists enlivened London’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s.
The YBAs: The London-based Young British Artists
Though this looks like an exhibit in a natural history museum, Hirst’s subject comes straight from art history.
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death ...
Why did the mayor of New York City threaten to close the museum exhibiting Ofili’s painting of the Virgin Mary?
Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary
Koons’ cartoonish life-size emblems of childhood innocence are an assault upon both sincerity and taste.
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