Colossal Roots, Tradition-Reality and Contestation of Asian Modernity

“Before we try to determine the rights and wrongs or the faults in modernity, it is necessary to relativize modernity…
“Before we try to determine the rights and wrongs or the faults in modernity, it is necessary to relativize modernity…
Arriving at his home in Lisbon, I am welcomed by an artwork from 1979. It is a lead panel on…
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!
At The Met Costume Institute’s exhibition “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between,” I happened upon two teenage girls…
The balancing act between Apollonian thought and Dionysian urges has a long lineage in art and literature, not least in…
Lionel Bovier: First, I’d like to situate Studio Venezia — your project for the French Pavilion at the 57th Venice…
Among Maria Lai’s earliest drawings there is a compact nucleus made up of portraits of Sardinian women at work: hair…
Death drops: breathtaking moves in any vogue dance, sudden and dramatic collapses that meet the ground with explosive impact. NON…
For two decades the work of Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, US; lives in New York) has developed in response to…
The recent work of Anna-Sophie Berger (b. 1989, Austria; lives in New York) has included phenomenologically expansive installations that take…
“You are nothing more than the image others have made of you.” It’s a line out of World on a…
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!
I tried to interview Raymond Pettibon. I thought we might have some things to talk about. We both like Joyce…
It’s been pitched as the story of an imaginary American pope, but also as a show about Vatican intrigues. The…
Born in Corsica, Pierre-Ange Carlotti likes to call himself an islander. Island people are usually solitary, but also curious and…
The city-state of Singapore nearly straddles the equator. We landed there in a heavy, moist heat tinged with toxic haze,…