Can’t Get You Out of My Head. In Conversation with Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff is already on holiday on an island off Italy’s coast when I interview him. When he picks up…
Everything it is it has*. Thea Djordjadze
*A line from Anne Carson’s poem “The Glass Essay,”in which the Canadian poet and essayist moves through the psychologically resonant…
Monia Ben Hamouda and Lara Favaretto Biblioteca Marciana – Fondazione Bvlgari / Venice
I might eventually get used to the opulence of Venetian palaces, their centuries-long accretion of stucco, pigments, and gold. Still,…
The Places We Make for Ourselves: Berlin Art Week 2026
I arrived in Berlin the day after the AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt, and the timing was difficult to ignore. The…
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Shell Game. In Conversation with Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans is smoking a cigarette outside of his studio when I arrive. It’s October 12, 2025 – a Sunday – in Antwerp, and…
ORDINARY MIRACLES. A Conversation with Rene Matić
One of the earliest works by Rene Matić is a video that documents their back torso being inscribed with the…
Hysteric Literature. A Conversation with Olivia Kan-Sperling
The questions of literary modernism have always been deeply entwined with those of psychoanalysis: both are concerned with the dissolution…
On Language and Kitsch. Tasneem Sarkez
It feels appropriate to approach Tasneem Sarkez’s work through the seed of language. The word, as a manifold concept, laces…
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These Ghosts. Clémentine Bruno
There is, at the heart of Clémentine Bruno’s practice, a question that refuses simplicity: How does one make space for presence…
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Afterglow. Siyi Li
Artist Siyi Li prefers to go by only his first name in this text. “Like a pop star,” he muses.…
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Eros is a verb. Coco Klockner
In the myth of Eros, the god of love and desire emerged from Chaos in the beginning of life itself…
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The Conditions that Shape. Sophie Friedman-Pappas
On the Greek island of Tinos, centuries-old dovecotes — white stone towers originally used to harvest pigeon droppings as fertilizer…
Xochi-Calli: The Architecture of the Inchoate. Carlos H. Matos
Xochi-Calli is a multisensory, immersive work by Mexican architect-sculptor Carlos H. Matos, set within the woodlands of the Lacasapark Art…
The Architecture of Entrapment. In Conversation with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 188, May–June 1995. Diller + Scofidio is a New York-based collaborative studio involved in cross-disciplinary work…
The Tint of Los Alamos
When you tell a local in New Mexico that you are headed to Los Alamos, they will remind you not…
Let It Work If It Works. In Conversation with Rose Wylie
David Kohn: We’re here in your studio where you’ve been working for almost sixty years. The paintings are all gone…
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Dead Matter & Nervous Flesh. Henri McMaster
Balancing Surrogates. In Conversation with Ivan Cheng
The Sound of Broken Eggshells. Luzie Meyer
Mercurial New York. In Conversation with Rose Salane
Sanya Kantarovsky “Basic Failure” Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti/ Venice
Tracey Emin “A Second Life” Tate Modern/ London
Archives as Footnotes. Ian Waelder
Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art/ New York