Narrative Excess: Judy Chicago's Work in Text
“I feel as though I’m still not writing. I foresee and want a way of speaking that’s more fanciful, more…
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Tony Conrad. Aural Symbiosis
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
Around 1968 Raul Guerrero purchased a Yaqui ceremonial mask from a dealer in indigenous artifacts (and purported warlock) working out…
Scene of a Scene
OMNES VIAE ROMAM DUCUNT — all roads lead to Rome. In the case of Tobias Kaspar this may hold true,…
Bruce Nauman: Being is Nothing
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
Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, US; lives in New York) interrogates the nature of painting by creating assemblages that dynamically…
Piper’s Threat
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!
Playas Only
At the end of March, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., opened the exhibition “No Spectators:…
Luchita Hurtado: The Way Men Never See Women
Two long tunics made by artist Luchita Hurtado hang in my closet. One is ribbed and purple, and the other…
Retrofitting for Eternal Youth
Who is hotter: Betty or Veronica? This is the unanswerable question at the heart of the Archie comics franchise. The…
Symbolic Violence/Physical Violence
After his Leichtmetallräder (2016) and Snowflake (2017) series, Yngve Holen (b. 1982, Germany/Norway; lives in Berlin) has turned again to…
Material Soul
What does my body know of photography? — Roland Barthes The opening moment of Quentin, a 2010 video by Josh…
Inside Joke
The second chapter of Gargantua consists of fourteen stanzas of nonsense verse, a slapstick parody of Roman mythology and history…
Savage Space
Anna Uddenberg’s figurative sculptures — often lithe, dressed in complex and revealing garments, and contorted improbably into suggestive or explicit…
Mass Freedom
The debut Telfar collection in 2005 featured hoodies sutured into quasi-ponchos, cardigans truncated into near-crop-tops, and drawstring sweatpants elevated into…
Signature Styles
Up-and-coming “abstract” painting makes headlines mostly for being trended and flipped by the changing powers that be, meanwhile being decried…