This is an interesting New York Times opinion piece about current sales of conceptual art, but artist Damien Hirst, and it's "value". A good read. Join discussion...

For the next 25 years, a collection of conceptual artist, Sol LeWitt's work will be displayed in a three story mill on the campus of Massacusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. There are hundreds of LeWitt's pieces being shown throughout the building. Unfortunately, LeWitt died last year shortly before the completion of this project Join discussion...

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has put up a show of over 100 Sol Lewitt ink-painting murals, scheduled to run for the next 25 years. Lewitt had worked closely with the Yale University Art Gallery to conceive this project. Unfortunately, he died last year and could not see it followed through. These pieces are abstract, with a focus on lines, colors, and clean surfaces. Lewitt Designed all the pieces and wrote instructions for them, but hired and trained other artists to actually produce the work, in hopes that they would then train others to do it also. Lewitt kept this impersonal touch to this work, never even signing it and keeping the art at a level where someone with very little skill could produce it. He designed the pieces between 1969 and 2007. His work is very conceptual. The pieces in this show and the process that went into making them show that the idea behind the piece is really what makes the art. Join discussion...

The Palais de Tokyo is being briefly taken over by an exhibition from a young artist by the name of Loris Greaud. This exhibition is the first exhibition to use all of the 40, 000 square feet of the museum, taking two years to produce and costing over twice the amount of any show before it. Greaud's brainchild is a conceptual masterpiece, split up into various "attractions" called bubbles. Bottles contain the imagined smell of Mars and a vending machine sells brightly colored candies that don't taste like anything. The work covers many different and sometimes contradictory disciplines, subjects and concepts, such as reality and the nonexistent. A technician operates the electrical portions of the exhibit for 6 hours a day, but when he is not there, exhibit-goers are left even more to their own imagination. When the exhibition leaves the Palais on April 27, it will travel to London, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, where it will reappear as something completely different. Join discussion...