Michael Asher
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Michael Asher is a conceptual artist known since the late 1960s for site-specific installations that offer a critique of art institutions. Rather than designing new art objects, Asher typically alters the existing environment, by repositioning or removing artworks, walls, facades, etc.
Asher is also reputed as a teacher at the California Institute of the Arts, where his "post-studio art" course consists of intensive group critiques that can focus on a single work for eight hours or more.
His Writings, 1973-1983, on Works 1969-1979, co-authored by the art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, was published by The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.