Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations
A collective endeavor of Greek antiquity — no less than eighty different artists worked on the frieze alone — the…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020
Fantasies and Dissonance: A Conversation with Anne Bean
Since the late 1960s, British artist Anne Bean has been singularly dedicated to performance and relational art that exists in…
Chus Martinez / Head of the Institut FHNW, Basel and expedition leader of The Current, TBA21–Academy
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Roselee Golberg / Curator of PERFORMA, New York
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Antonia Alampi / Artistic co-Director of SAVVY Contemporary and co-Curator Sonsbeek 2010-2024
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
“I’m nothing, I’m no one, I’m everyone, I’m dead!” Aria Dean
Crises of language dominated the last years of both theoretical and artistic research of Aria Dean (b. Los Angeles, 1993).…
Negative Space, Objects in the Absence of Performance
As art institutions adopt performance-based practices, artists, curators, and archivists are faced with new considerations about how to classify and…
Kara Walker Sprüth Magers / London
Coinciding with the artist’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission, Sprüth Magers London presents the first retrospective of Kara Walker’s films.…
The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn
Between 1968 and 1972, German artist Rebecca Horn created a series of performances titled “Personal Art.” Not unlike Joseph Beuys,…
Michael E. Smith Modern Art / London
Writing in “The Spirit of Things,” the critic Barbara M. Benedict considers the rise of consumer society in relation to…
Nayland Blake Institute of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles
Since the mid-1980s, Nayland Blake has engaged the politics and aesthetics of identity in America. Biracial, queer, and gender nonconforming,…
Nora Turato Serralves Museum / Porto
For her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Nora Turato drove her two greyhounds, Taco and Tuna, all the way from…
Jimmy Robert: Reworking Performativity
The work of Berlin-based artist Jimmy Robert (b. Guadeloupe (FR) 1975) is situated in the interstices between the art object,…
Sidsel Meineche Hansen Chisenhale gallery / London
“Welcome to End-Used City” continues Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s ongoing consideration of techno-capitalism’s stranglehold on biopolitics. The focus here is the…
Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Such Feeling
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
When You Mix Something, It’s Good to Know Your Ingredients: Modes of Addressing and Economies of Attention in the Visual and Performing Arts
The event-oriented neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and ’60s were very much driven by an oppositional stance to the conventions of…