Club Ruins
Originally published in Flash Art no. 311 November – December 2016. This past summer, during Atonal, a yearly festival for…
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Dan Graham: Being and nothingness
Originally published in Flash Art no. 265, March–April 2009. Violaine Boutet de Monvel: Shall we start with your exhibition “Beyond”…
Wilhelm Sasnal
Andrea Bellini: Let’s start with mistakes. Do you ever destroy your works? Wilhelm Sasnal: Quite often. Sometimes I paint the…
From Criticism to Complicity
From Flash Art n°129,1986 Peter Nagy: In what ways does this new work depart from or elaborate upon work done…
Being an Artist is the Closest Thing to Being a Criminal that Exists
From Flash Art International no. 140, May–June 1988 Although his adventuresome images and life are extraordinary, William N. Copley (1919–96)…
The Architecture of Entrapment
The Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive is slated to reopen on January 31, with a new building…
Plans to Escape
From Flash Art International no. 251 November–December 2006 Hans Ulrich Obrist: In a previous conversation, we spoke about moving into…
Cady Noland
“The true artist must swear an oath: Dedication to silence” – Federico Fellini, 8½ Cady Noland is a bona…
A Salon History of Appropriation
From Flash Art International no. 143, 1988 Leo Castelli: Let’s pinpoint not my vague awareness of your existence or the…
Cool School
From Flash Art International no. 159, 1991 Jerry Saltz: In the last shows I’ve seen of yours there were landscapes…
The Most Beautiful Animal
From Flash Art International, No. 179, November – December 1994 Sylvie Fleury: Do you think there is any similarity between…
Lasting Pictures
“Pictures,” the title of Douglas Crimp’s seminal 1977 group exhibition at Artists Space in New York, is outwardly unremarkable, even…
Peter Schuyff
From Flash Art International no. 123,1985 Michael Kohn: How about starting with a serious question: Your work has been called…
The Art of Curating. A constellation of artist-curated exhibitions
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 271 March – April 2010. I keep telling myself, in fact, that the entirety…