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Cauleen Smith: The Art of Giving by Fanta Sylla

13 January 2019, 8:43 am CET

Fanta Sylla: Ever since the publication of Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning in 2011, I have yearned…

Amy Sillman. An Impossible Language by Kerstin Stakemeier

11 December 2018, 3:54 pm CET

The modern history of painting is framed by narratives of artists struggling to undercut its representational character as art’s most…

Plunging into the Void: Judy Chicago’s Images by Stephanie Seidel

28 November 2018, 8:00 am CET

I first saw Judy Chicago’s Birth Trinity (1983) and Birth Tear/Tear (1982) when visiting the artist’s studio in Belen, New…

Antek Walczak. Planned Obsolescence? by Thomas Duncan

14 November 2018, 4:39 pm CET

Antek Walczak advances the medium of painting as a kind of machine through which social, economic, political, and technological systems…

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Feminist: On Judy Chicago by Géraldine Gourbe

10 November 2018, 8:00 am CET

Judy Chicago had been Judy Chicago for five years when she published her autobiography Through the Flower: My Struggle as…

Narrative Excess: Judy Chicago's Work in Text by William J. Simmons

10 November 2018, 8:00 am CET

“I feel as though I’m still not writing. I foresee and want a way of speaking that’s more fanciful, more…

Tony Conrad. Aural Symbiosis by Charlemagne Palestine

17 October 2018, 4:40 pm CET

I met Tony Conrad the first time while playing the carillon at Saint Thomas Church one afternoon between 5:00 and…

The Mask and the Motor by Eli Diner

3 October 2018, 4:43 pm CET

Around 1968 Raul Guerrero purchased a Yaqui ceremonial mask from a dealer in indigenous artifacts (and purported warlock) working out…

Scene of a Scene by Julia Moritz

19 September 2018, 6:15 pm CET

OMNES VIAE ROMAM DUCUNT — all roads lead to Rome. In the case of Tobias Kaspar this may hold true,…

Bruce Nauman: Being is Nothing by Isabelle Graw

3 September 2018, 3:07 pm CET

The Absurd Wouldn’t it be convenient to introduce this essay by noting a general euphoria surrounding Bruce Nauman in the…

The Everyday Right Outside The Door by Jessica Bell Brown

21 August 2018, 6:52 pm CET

Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, US; lives in New York) interrogates the nature of painting by creating assemblages that dynamically…

Piper’s Threat by Yaniya Lee

13 August 2018, 6:00 pm CET

We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!