Sci-Fi Historicism
What is a character? It is, first of all, a letter, and secondly, an aggregate of letters, a representation of…
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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…
Peter Coffin
Maurizio Cattelan: Hello Peter. I’m glad we have this opportunity to talk. I am interested in knowing how you think…
Live from Los Angeles
It doesn’t come as news that the Los Angeles art scene is growing fast. It’s evident in the sheer quantity…
Next to Performance
In a recent conversation, the French dancer and choreographer Jérôme Bel articulated a distinction between the ‘fine arts artist,’ or…
Yvonne Rainer / Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien and Yvonne Rainer — friends for over 20 years — have been invited by Flash Art to sit…
Marcin Maciejowski
Kraków-based artist Marcin Maciejowski is a man of few words. It’s no surprise then that his paintings have an economy…
The Frankfurt Project
It seems to be the case today that conceptual programs for institutional exhibitions are increasingly driven by the dictates of…
Maurizio Cattelan
Helena Kontova: You lived for almost a year in Germany, in Berlin. How was this experience and your relationship to the…
Jirí Kovanda
In 1991, a conversation appeared in the Czech magazine Vitvarné umení (Visual Art) between Jirí David and a colleague of…
Francesco Vezzoli
Amongst the artists who participated in this year’s Performa, Francesco Vezzoli created his first live performance entitled Right You Are…
Babette Mangolte
Lina Bertucci: You’ve been working as an experimental filmmaker since the ’70s. You have an incredible breadth and range of…
Live from Los Angeles
The Art of Branding One show, more than any other, has been at the center of the brouhaha in LA…
The new New Museum
The Bowery brings out a sentimental streak in New York. For decades the street was seen as a shady problem…