Ian Wilson, Conceptual Artist Who Declined to Make Physical Objects, Is Dead at 80

Ian Wilson, an artist who spent 50 years talking about making art instead of actually producing it, died at 80 on Thursday. His death was confirmed his gallery Jan Mot in Brussels.
Wilson was a core member of the Conceptualist movement during the late 1960s. Wilson, along with his colleagues Joseph Kosuth, Robert Barry, Robert Morris, and Lawrence Weiner, sought to turn viewers’ attention away from aesthetics, placing the emphasis instead on ideas. Through a heady blend of concepts culled