Robert Ryman
In 1953, Robert Ryman, recently having moved to New York City from his native Tennessee to pursue a career as…
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Steven Parrino
David Robbins: Where did you find this Rat Fink1 model? Steven Parrino: Up on St. Mark’s Place, at an antique…
Fia Backström
Fia sent Anthony a recycled text, he then filled in the questions. The text went back and forth and each…
Markus Schinwald
“Perhaps there is no ‘natural way’ for an adult to walk.” Marcel Mauss, “Les techniques du corps,” Journal de psychologie,…
Contrary Signs
Against the tumultuous backdrop of conflict along Pakistan’s northern border with Afghanistan, the ethnic insurgency in the south-western province of…
Marlene Dumas
Let’s be clear, it’s not about the color of the skin. Even if I have to admit I have never seen…
Bruce Nauman
Confronted by Bruce Nauman’s work, the viewer becomes psychologically disturbed.The artist’s efforts to turn an idea into an artwork, to…
Turning the Wheel
The international exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale, “Making Worlds,” opens on the 7th June under the directorship of Daniel…
Gintaras Didžiapetris
Deliberately eschewing a few key methods of dissemination synonymous with the communication of contemporary art and the promotion of an…
Craft
First comes the artwork and then the artist, or that’s how it was in antiquity. Today, however, the system presumes…
Biennial Manifesto
“A twenty-first-century biennial will utilize calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst for invigorating change whilst always producing…
I Can’t Play Guitar
I condemned myself to a life of collaboration when I bought a guitar and formed a band but decided to…
Carlo Mollino
Had Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) never existed, he would have almost certainly been imagined — the fictional embodiment, something between Moravian…
Luke Fowler
“You asked me if the abstract was obfuscating reality and I said no because the abstract is as valid as…
We are Ukrainians
December, 2004. While the Orange Revolution unfurled over Ukraine, about twenty artists slipped into the crowd of protestors, militant campers…
Brussels Residents
What’s so special about Brussels and why are so many artists moving there? Though the lively multicultural city is ideally…