Summer’s White Nights
It may sound odd, but if you’re new to Oslo and its small but exquisite art scene, then Berlin is…
Features
Vanessa Beecroft
and Pietra Brettkelly
Beginning in 2006, New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly filmed artist Vanessa Beecroft for sixteen months, when she was in South…
What’s after Italy?
After Arte Povera work in the early ’60s and mid ’70s by Anselmo, Boetti, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz,…
Time is on Our Side
Andrei Tarkovsky shot Nostalghia in Italy in 1982, away from the USSR, a country in which he could no longer…
Gino De Dominicis
Dying is no more than not being seen. (Fernando Pessoa) Gino De Dominicis was an extraordinary artist in terms of…
Live from Los Angeles
F for fair and BCAM for Broad Contemporary Art Museum As I write this, LA galleries are already preparing for…
Weathermen
The theme of climate change has enjoyed the worldwide priority it deserves since the UN published its shocking first world…
Matthew Stone
Norman Rosenthal: What is art to you? And it’s function in the world? Matthew Stone: I believe that every action…
Carla Accardi
Hans Ulrich Obrist: What were the trends in the Academy? Carla Accardi: The Academy’s trends focused on Italian art, while…
Janus
A few years ago, when a colleague roughly ten years my senior asked what I was doing that Friday night,…
Into Me/Out of Me
I am sitting on the bank of the River Ganges and I am stuffing everything I see into my head……
Cy Twombly
Rome is my life; it’s my home, my stable dwelling, the place of the consummation of my life. …
Rudolf Stingel
For the 55th Carnegie International, Rudolf Stingel has produced two new large gold-hued paintings with a subtle pattern repeated across…
In Media Res
There is no sign of an end to media penetration in our lives: the victorious progress continues. So, thanks to…
Marcel Broodthaers
It has been over thirty-three years since Marcel Broodthaers died in Cologne on January 28, 1976; he died on his…
Josh Smith / Ann Craven
Ann – Red (anger) Josh – Blue (serenity) Hey Josh, I am being erased What do you mean? Be quiet.…