ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2022 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveDATE 2/16/2023 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2023 CAA National ConferenceDATE 2/15/2023 The Brooklyn Museum presents the launch of 'Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects' by András SzántóDATE 2/5/2023 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the Winter 2023 Shoppe Object Independent Home and Gift ShowDATE 1/30/2023 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the book celebration and signing of 'Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces'DATE 1/29/2023 Lyrical and exuberant, 'Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature' releases this weekDATE 1/27/2023 'Elizaveta Porodina: Un/Masked' opens at Fotografiska New YorkDATE 1/24/2023 Themes of gender, race, class and social change in 'Events of the Social'DATE 1/23/2023 Happy New Year from Artbook | D.A.P.!DATE 1/21/2023 Deborah Bell presents Elaine Mayes and Kevin Moore on 'The Haight-Ashbury Portraits'DATE 1/21/2023 Into the meat grinderDATE 1/19/2023 McNally Jackson Books Seaport and Primary Information present Mirene Arsanios, Constance DeJong and Annie-B ParsonDATE 1/19/2023 Humanity, depth and insight in 'Peter Hujar Curated by Elton John'DATE 1/18/2023 Amy Sherald, infusing the present and the future with hope | EXCERPTS & ESSAYSMING LIN | DATE 7/24/2011Documenta Notebooks: Lawrence Weiner"IF IN FACT THERE IS A CONTEXT..." begins Lawrence Weiner, rather skeptically, in his contribution to Hatje Cantz and Documenta's series, 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts. Weiner, a formative figure of the conceptual art movement, is known for his bold typographic works displayed as wall installations. His very literal phrases—for example the famous work "A 36" X 36" REMOVAL TO THE LATHING OR SUPPORT WALL OF PLASTER OR WALL-BOARD FROM A WALL"—lead the viewer to question whether the work of art is the object or action described or the text itself. Like Joseph Kosuth's 1965 "One and Three Chairs" piece, which features a chair, a photograph of the same chair and a copy of the dictionary definition of the word "chair," Weiner's work invites ambiguity in order to interrogate themes such as what an original work of art consists of and how meaning is made. ![]() ![]() |