Lutz Bacher: What is X?
A profile of Lutz Bacher requires reimagining what a profile is, which is just fine because her art asks similar…
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As a Stranger Give it Welcome. A Conversation with Amanda Ziemele
“Either this is madness, or it is hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is…
An Illegible World. Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu has a studio in a leafy courtyard in Berlin’s Wedding district, where an assistant is busy scrubbing old…
MY HAND, MY HEART, MY ART. A Conversation with Judy Chicago
I get a call from Judy Chicago’s studio manager while I’m washing the dishes in my flat. She asks if…
Peter Fischli: Quality
In The Right Way (1987), one in a series of films co-directed by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, a rat…
Accidental Composition. A Conversation with Paride Maria Calvia
Fittingly, the first time I “met” Paride Maria Calvia was when I worked in Donlon Books in London. From the…
WHERE’S THE ROMANCE? A Conversation with Peter Shire
As Peter Shire describes it, it’s “just another bucolic afternoon in Echo Park, Los Angeles, with the cars making whooshing…
Sin Wai Kin: Dreaming Before Language
1. Can a Word Contain the World? Language shapes reality; this much we know is true. On a good day,…
Diamond Stingily: Everybody Is Bronze
Diamond Stingily is a great storyteller. The first time I met her, she came over to the loft where I…
I Am a Stream of Consciousness
“Essentially, there are only two things in my life: spiritual practice and work,” LuYang tells me with the help of…
The Met: Fly Higher. A Conversation between Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg
An introduction: on Sunday, March 3, 2024, Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the architecture firm ANY met at the…
Klára Hosnedlová: World Weaver
The pattern best employed to express the generation of life and energy thrown from the motion of its development is…
The Year of Magical Discipline. A Conversation with Dozie Kanu
An oracle mumbles the dreams of a Beautiful wanderer Obliterating fear From a single memory archive Spiraling diamond Sparkle Sun…
Cutting Up the World. A Conversation with Gray Wielebinski
Perhaps appropriately for an interview on a cold, dark, January evening, the first question I ask Gray Wielebinski is one…
All the Images will Disappear. A Conversation with Rebecca Ackroyd
A blood-red carpet, ghostly body parts infused with lurid blues and pastel pinks that are weighted to heavy wooden furniture,…
Copies of Copies, I Which I Then Copy Again. A Conversation with Motoko Ishibashi
Art history lectures frequently begin with an image of the Venus of Willendorf. The ancient fertility sculpture, with its exaggerated…