Art & Language - Exhibitions and Awards

Exhibitions and Awards

In 1986, the remnants of the group were nominated for the Turner Prize.

In 1999, Art and Language exhibited at PS1 MoMA, NY with a major installation entitled "The Artist Out of Work". This was a re-collection of their dialogical and other practices curated by Michael Corris and Neil Powell. This exhibition followed closely on from the revisionist:'Global Conceptualism:Points of Origin', at the Queens Museum of Art also in New York. The A+L show at PS1 offered an alternative account of the antecedents and legacy of 'classic' Conceptual Art and reinforced a transatlantic rather than nationalistic version of events 1968-72. In a negative appraisal of the exhibition art critic Jerry Saltz wrote, "A quarter century ago, Art & Language forged an important link in the genealogy of conceptual art, but subsequent efforts have been so self-engrandizing and arcane that their work is now virtually irrelevant."

The work of Atkinson and Baldwin (working as Art & Language) is held in the collection of the Tate. Papers and works relating to New York Art & Language are held in the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California. On March 2011, Philippe Méaille gave 800 artworks of Art & Language collective to the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, also known as MACBA.