Hans Haacke
Sam Durant: Would you be willing to discuss any of your recent projects? Hans Haacke: For the 2009 Venice Biennale…
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Tacita Dean
Time is a tyrant. In Goya’s famous painting, Chronos, the god of time, devours his children: one could see this…
Black Paintings
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
Kerry James Marshall. Learning is Problem Solving
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
For Nathalie
These years — the early 2000s — are anonymous years for the city (perhaps for the whole world): years during…
____A____Hexagon
Introduction The height of the main tower, made of stainless steel, is 198 m. The circumference of the oval is…
The Cult of Freedom
A border isn’t a metaphor. Running away from my loneliness in LA, I make a series of dental appointments with…
Alarm!
So there is this big house and it is night and all the people in it are all totally drunk…
Make-Up
James Very distinctly, I remember examining his gait, and the way he walked out of the studios out into the…
Dust Corps
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February
I am at the entrance to a famous Milanese club, Plastic. Along with Jacopo, I organize a party night here…
Hinterland Art
Last Autumn, I visited a group of postgraduate students in Nida, a beach resort on the Lithuanian side of the…
A Brief Disturbance
Wanting very much, in ways that seemed simple to her, to be liked, or loved, Bella clung to a certain…
U in a movie called "La Notte"
Milan a city U’ve never been to before. So U can admire the scape without getting caught up in referencing…
Katie
Katie’s Room You’ve assumed the figure of an actress, a player, twice, but also maybe, as a figure of speech,…
Flugtraum
6000 meters. I write in haste, in near darkness. Only the crew of indigenous islanders manning the trawler I’ve hired…