Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about New York's art gallery system and museum structure. Sub-cultural movements, especially those spearheaded by radical ...

Alexis Smith may have spent her working life in Los Angeles, but the conceptual and collage artist who passed away Tuesday at her home in L.A. also left an indelible mark in San Diego. Smith, who was ...

Years ago, the artist Harry Gould Harvey IV came across a fallen black walnut tree in a friend’s yard. He experienced a moment of revelation and felt a sudden urge to make a frame for his drawings ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. San Diego is a sleeper in the art world, always overshadowed by that ...

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Let’s catalog a few important moments in the history of conceptual art: In 1917, Marcel Duchamp signed and dated a porcelain urinal, installed it on a plinth, and entered it into the first exhibition ...

Marshall McLuhan once wrote, “The medium is the message.” For Galerie Maximillian owner Albert Sanford, his medium is art. Since 1997, he has consistently shown some of the finest works on paper by ...

A gold toilet sculpture created a lot of excitement before the big art auction in New York, but its price underwhelmed ...

In 1995, Cai Guo-Qiang set adrift a Chinese junk on the Grand Canal in Venice, marking the seven-hundredth anniversary of Marco Polo’s return to Europe. In 2008, as the world spiraled into a ...