House of Mixed Emotions
Hanging outside Zurich’s trashy but steadily gentrifying Langstrasse the other night, an older artist, who had grown up in the…
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Bliss
Ever since my first night out I have felt butterflies in my stomach when approaching club doors. For me…
The Cha Cha Club
In 1981 my engagement with the culture of counter-consciousness, self-organization and DIY was stimulated by an accidental meeting on the…
Tropical Waste
Down a flight of stairs, beneath an unremarkable, noisy pub in Stoke Newington, North London, lies a basement club called…
Clara 3000
Électron libre is one of my favorite French expressions. In English it is sometimes translated as “free spirit,” though the…
Noon Club
Oblivion We see a beautiful woman with a large bust, her head covered in white bubbles, her eyes closed, her…
L.A. Street Style
Last year I was brainstorming with Jeffrey Deitch about a possible exhibition at his gallery in New York. The show…
Tim Hawkinson
Last year, an overdue first survey exhibition of the work of Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson — co-organized by the…
Eve Sussman
Eve Sussman’s 89 Seconds at Alcazar premiered at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The film is a restaging of Velasquez’ Las…
The City of Angels
Mapping the visual arts landscape of the City of Angels is a wild ride into an entrepreneurial heaven. Because the…
Damián Ortega
Damián Ortega makes sculpture with different techniques and materials, and with a special interest in creating ‘new engineering’ for preexistent…
Katarzyna Kozyra
When, at the 1999 Venice Biennale, Katarzyna Kozyra received an honourable mention for her video installation Men’s Bathhouse, a work…
Dorothy Iannone
Maurizio Cattelan: How old are you? Dorothy Iannone: Seventy-two. MC: What was the first thing you did that you consider…
Anri Sala
Stefano Boeri: Let’s start from the notion of editing. What is interesting in this show in Milan [organized by Trussardi…
Gianni Motti
Marco Scotini: To begin with, it’s usually necessary to start from an origin. Yet with you this is not possible.…
Dietmar Lutz
It’s easy to think of Dietmar Lutz’s paintings in cinematic terms, in the first place because of their frequent references…