ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 12/13/2023 Eat More Plants: Daniel Humm and Gerhard Steidl in Conversation at the 92nd Street YDATE 12/2/2023 In Sugimoto's 'Time Machine,' the flicker of a second lifeDATE 12/2/2023 Museum Store of the Month: Walker ShopDATE 12/1/2023 Come see us at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023!DATE 11/30/2023 The Definitive Marisol RetrospectiveDATE 11/27/2023 The Academy Museum presents Peter Spirer and Big Boy for a Los Angeles screening and signing of 'Book of Rhyme & Reason'DATE 11/27/2023 Forever ValentinoDATE 11/25/2023 Indigenous wisdom in 'Let's Become Fungal'DATE 11/23/2023 Happy Thanksgiving from Artbook | D.A.P.!DATE 11/20/2023 Holiday Gift Staff Pick: Kerry James Marshall: The Complete PrintsDATE 11/17/2023 Fotografiska presents a book signing with Andrew DosunmuDATE 11/17/2023 Shaggy and spontaneous, 'The New York Tapes' collects Alan Solomon’s mid-60s interviews for televisionDATE 11/17/2023 Book Soup presents the LA launch of 'Stephen Hilger: In the Alley' | 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |