John Baldessari, the wry conceptualist who died this weekend at age 88, meant a lot of things to a lot of people. But of the many Baldessari-heads out there, there’s at least one you might not expect: ...

Until he died on Thursday at age 88, the artist John Baldessari was engaged in a lifelong battle against good taste. “Twenty feet back, all paintings look the same,” he said in a 1981 interview, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, artist John Baldessari poses at The Broad museum's opening and inaugural ...

The present work comes from the artist's Emoji series. Showcasing Baldessari's brilliant ability to convey language and communication through imagery. These small icons, used as a way to convey ...

That’s a question that artist John Baldessari asked a few years ago, in his typically sardonic, deceptively simple way. He asked it in the manner that he asked a lot of questions over the course of ...

John Baldessari, ‘Animal Crackers in My Soup,’ 2012. (Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery) Lately Mr. Baldessari has been making it very difficult for others to get away with things. The last time he was ...

Real estate developer and art collector Craig Robins at the opening of “John Baldessari: The End of the Line.” Courtesy MALBA First off, I love the city and have a deep love for Latin American culture ...

For “PST Art,” the Getty is showing works by John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Deana Lawson and others in a medium that promised to be the future. By Frank Rose His visual style derives from a corner ...

John Baldessari's Front Row series, which includes the present work, takes its inspiration from the runway shows at the Fall/Winter 2014 Paris Fashion Week. For the Chanel show at the Grand Palais ...

John Baldessari, who pioneered a new genre of art in the 1970s and in the process helped elevate Los Angeles’ status in the art world from that of back-water berg to a center of the conceptual ...

The poster for Artists Read Baldessari, an event held in association with the LA Art Book Fair. (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — How many literary readings involve a ...