Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
For Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 2005 was a sabbatical year. Her calendar was emptied of exhibitions and public projects. The first show…
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss
In July we traveled to Zurich to talk to Fischli and Weiss about their forthcoming retrospectives at the Zurich Kunsthaus,…
Christian Holstad
Maurizio Cattelan: Since your show at Daniel Reich’s apartment I have seen you shift media and styles often. Artists who…
New York Tales
New Spaces This past November, the doors of the Hessel Museum of Art were opened at Bard College, the prestigious…
Robert Kusmirowski
Confronted with Robert Kusmirowski’s work, one is immediately immersed into the past. Kusmirowski’s oeuvre explores ideas of history and its…
John Kørner
Problems are comparatively easy to deal with.” This statement welcomes the reader of John Kørner’s 2004 artist book A Modern…
New Tendency
During the 1950s the contemporary art world lived in a season of art informel that lent itself to curious and…
Planet China
Ai Weiwei Artist, architect, curator, is the most prominent figure in Chinese contemporary culture. Who is Ai Weiwei? I was…
Mark Grotjahn
Jan Tumlir: Hearing about your background and your childhood experiences with your grandfather, who was a well-known local psychoanalyst, and…
Francesca Woodman
“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body…
Monica Bonvicini
Massimiliano Gioni: Your work is always aggressive, kind of in your face. Is your work hostile? Monica Bonvicini: I do…
Eric Wesley
Sonia Campagnola: I was at the China Art Objects booth in London, the gallerist opened a folder in his computer…
Maaike Schoorel
In the mid-1990s, N.E. Thing Enterprises published a series of books called “Magic Eye.” The books were collections of stereograms,…
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…