Maaike Schoorel
In the mid-1990s, N.E. Thing Enterprises published a series of books called “Magic Eye.” The books were collections of stereograms,…
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Jannis Kounellis
Drama Andrea Bellini: In “Categorie Italiane,” the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben asserts that one of Italy’s most important cultural categories…
Willoughby Sharp
Andrea Bellini: In 1958, you started working with Yves Klein. Can you tell me an anecdote about him? Willoughby Sharp:…
Sci-Fi Historicism
The consensus emerging from the 2006 Orange County Museum of Art California Biennial is that young artists on the West…
Seth Price
Maurizio Cattelan: Ciao, Seth. So I thought of doing something different. Maybe you know that the magazine sometimes has readers…
The Good, the Bad and the Very Bad: Theory of the Market
Welcome to the disconnect of 2007 Same as the disconnect of 2006 Painter Charline von Heyl recently described American’s disconnect between…
Isa Genzken
The art student was shocked. The carefully prepared presentation collapsed under a surprisingly simple if not quite obvious question the…
Sci-Fi Historicism
Ed Ruscha’s objective inventory of life in Southern California is wholly determined by the road, the highway and freeway, as…
Shadows on the Façade
Maurizio Cattelan: I want to start with something you said to Mery Nonha regarding your film Shadows on The Façade…
Andro Wekua
Andro wekua’s work combines a seductive and terrifying sense of composition, which seems to be walking in its sleep, with…
Mika Rottenberg
The female body, in all its potential fantastic proportions, obsesses Mika Rottenberg. Her eccentric videos have featured body builders, dancers,…
Giulio Paolini
Andrea Bellini: Let’s start at the beginning. Is there a real beginning? What are the moments and the intuitions that…
Sci-Fi Historicism
What is a character? It is, first of all, a letter, and secondly, an aggregate of letters, a representation of…
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Clemens von Wedemeyer makes films. Which is not to say that he makes cinema. He does frequently work with cinematic…
Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft and Shirin Neshat
I invited three cult women artists to reflect on nationality, what it means to be an outsider, a woman and…
Mario Garcia Torres
This summer, on the island of Syros, Greece, the Mexican artist Mario Garcia Torres breathed new life into the idea…