How do you know when you’re, well, getting on a bit? For me, the penny dropped midway through Michael Craig-Martin’s new retrospective at the Royal Academy. Contemplating one of his vast, bright ...

The radical act is still one of Britain’s definitive conceptual artworks. It has remained a deceptively simple but bold meditation on “transubstantiation,” the idea that imbuing an earthly object with ...

Now 83, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin has waited a long time for this "career-spanning retrospective" at the Royal Academy, said Nancy Durrant in the London Evening Standard. Craig-Martin ...

A reserved study of carefully cropped household items, Michael Craig-Martin's 2013 Light series isolates the relevant formal qualities of six items: a chair, a light bulb, a violin, a corkscrew, a can ...

In 1974 he upped the ante by exhibiting a glass of water on a glass shelf, titling it An Oak Tree and claiming that, although it was still a glass of water, it had been transformed into a tree ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Now 83, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin has waited a long time for this ...