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In the late ’60s, the art world fractured into many minor movements. In one movement, artists believed that they didn’t need to produce any artwork but simply generate concepts.

In reality, conceptual art, as it’s known, is often a type of performance or “happening” that can be very spontaneous and interactive. Sometimes it’s simply writing on a wall. One early conceptual artist camped out with a coyote for a week in an art gallery to get people thinking about the treatment of Native Americans.

Feminist art is sometimes linked with conceptual art in that it focuses on ideas related to the inequalities faced by women and tries to provoke change. But the movement has no set style. It might include a painting on canvas or a group of women dressed up in gorilla costumes crashing a public event to pass out pamphlets.