Herald
It was her own peculiar joy, something hard to maintain amongst her everyday life and everyday home, but that came…
Features
Considerable Inner Strenght
In recent years, several international novelists have sought to include contemporary art in their novels — among them Michel Houellebecq,…
Justin Mortimer
Family Dollar (2009). Courtesy the Artist and Master Piper, London. Photography by Anna Arca. In his introduction to The Metastases…
Mandla Reuter
The examination and alteration of the institution and the display of art — as inaugurated by such artists as Michael…
Oscar Tuazon
With titles such as City without a Ghetto, Glassed Slab, Panel, On a Hilltop, Catchment System, 1:1, Water Wall and…
Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago
THOMAS HOUSEAGO: Let’s start with the fact that we just did two two-person shows. One was at the Ballroom Marfa…
Sterling Ruby
João Ribas: I’d like to begin by discussing this post-humanist condition underscoring so much of your practice — ranging…
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Giancarlo Politi: Do you think that art is fixed in time? I mean, what’s the difference between your first series…
Work
Hey guys, this is going to be one of the longest Instagram captions ever, but I guess I’ve been pushing…
Aaron Young
Hans Ulrich Obrist: I want to start by asking a question to do with your piece called Never Leave Home…
Painting
In “The Legacy of Jackson Pollock” (1958) Allan Kaprow famously wrote about how the abstract painter created an environment from…
André Cadere
To the art world connoisseur, the name André Cadere is largely associated with conceptual art, although he does not rank…
Franz West
Darsie Alexander: What’s your earliest childhood memory? Who was the single biggest influence on your life besides your mother? You…
Annette Kelm
Michaela Coffee Break (2009). Courtesy Johann König, Berlin. Thinking about Annette Kelm’s images is like thinking of a kind of…
Proto-Povera-Radical-Sleek
In the aftermath of the recent death of novelist, philosopher and semiotician Umberto Eco, I asked myself about the resonance…
David Hammons?
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!