Material Soul
What does my body know of photography? — Roland Barthes The opening moment of Quentin, a 2010 video by Josh…
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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…
Backdoor of the World
There is a void in the wall precisely where a colorful pencil drawing by Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016) was…
Anarchitecture as Poetic Device
In 1974, Anarchitecture, a group whose members included Gordon Matta-Clark and others connected to the artist-run gallery 112 Green Street,…
Excerpts from the 80s
Peter Halley has been among Flash Art’s most celebrated artists, with a formidable career that the magazine has followed closely…
Bad Memory
During the early 1980s, Jeffrey Deitch wrote a column for Flash Art titled “Art and Money.” In one such column…
Art Has to Stay Art
In 1967 and 1968, Flash Art published Piero Gilardi’s diary of his travels between the United States and Northern Europe.…
Positively Not
Eric Troncy’s text “Being Positive in the Secret of the 90s,” which appeared in Flash Art in 1992, focuses on…
Cattelan Cover Story
In 1994, Maurizio Cattelan was featured on the cover of Flash Art for the first time. This was followed by…
Aspiring to Dissolution
“Ambivalent Witnesses,” Hou Hanru’s survey of Chinese contemporary art published in Flash Art in 1996, was among the first attempts…
Lonely Warriors Against an Authoritarian Regime
In 1977, Flash Art featured a survey of “non-aligned” Russian artists. Throughout the 1980s, the magazine continued to report on…
theanyspacewhatever
One World Charles left Paris when he was eight. It was in the late 1990s. He was moving to a…
Frontier Fears
Since 1979, Ars Electronica has served as a platform for discourse surrounding the convergence of art and technology within society.…