Toyin Ojih Odutola “A Countervailing Theory” Barbican Centre / London
For her first UK solo exhibition, “A Countervailing Theory,” Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola presents forty drawings in the Curve…
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"Don't Let This Be Easy" Walker Art Center / Minneapolis
Minneapolis: the site of a deadly reckoning that recently primed the world for a new wave of civil rights activism.…
Yona Friedman®: A Case Study from Radicalism to Idiocracy
Almost a year after the death of Yona Friedman (1923–2020), we offer an excerpt from a text by François Roche…
Ian Wilson: There Was a Discussion
“No, I hadn’t heard about Ian Wilson, his life stood as an example for me, his death merely extends its…
Listen to This! Sound Art Reflections
Sound as art emerged in the counterculture 1960s as a lively, open-ended alternative away from the center. Practitioners with backgrounds…
Episode III: Speech of an Object
Hi, my name is Pierre Bal-Blanc. I was born in the small working-class town of Ugine, in France. I live…
Ecstatic Exhibitionism: Masahiro Nakagawa's "20471120"
(Episode II) NewCostume is a column by Matthew Linde exploring contemporary fashion practice. November 20, 2047: the explosive timestamp for…
The Anticipatory Role of Germano Celant
Statements about Germano Celant’s contribution to conceptual art usually limit themselves to invoking his invention of the notion of arte…
Robert Morris "The Perceiving Body" MAMC+ / Saint-Étienne Métropole
Robert Morris’s art is rooted in the corporeal: not only in its means of production — involving materials of heavy…
Liliane Lijn: Reinventing the Archetype
Shall we begin at the beginning? Or, to be more precise, The Beginning (1959)? One of the earliest recorded works…
Rose Wylie "where i am and was" Aspen Art Museum / Colorado
The story of British artist Rose Wylie’s career has become something close to lore for its unusual trajectory: despite having…
Desiring Machines: The Exhibition as Automaton in Philippe Parreno’s Work
Every night during the summer of 1993, artificial fireflies automatically lit up the garden at the Villa Arson, Nice. But…
The Kitchen’s new residency programs: Autumn Knight and Baseera Khan
As part of an ongoing effort to probe contemporary curatorial practices, Flash Art reached out to one of New York…