conceptual artist
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The conceptual artist is renowned for transforming words into eerie pronouncements, and here she scours the FBI’s files on the civil-rights movement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
The 18-carat toilet was created by the conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan and had been installed at the Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire as part of an exhibition.
From BBC • May 19, 2025
Lorraine O’Grady, a one-of-a-kind conceptual artist who examined racism and sexism through a multitude of mediums, has died at age 90.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024
That’s the explanation most visitors take away from Cattelan’s solo show, the first in more than two decades by a conceptual artist famous for a series of similarly eyebrow-raising works.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
In the Manhattan Art Review, he called Bettina’s work “right on time for likable and almost leisurely nostalgia,” comparing it favorably to the creations of the conceptual artist Dan Graham.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024
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