Proto-Povera-Radical-Sleek
In the aftermath of the recent death of novelist, philosopher and semiotician Umberto Eco, I asked myself about the resonance…
Features
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!
Be Emotional
Artist Bill Kouligas runs the Berlin-based record label PAN. Kouligas grew up in Athens, then worked in London as a…
The Most Relative Media
Let’s start with purple. It’s everywhere in the work of Martine Syms (b. 1988, US): the backdrop of the video…
From Line to Sphere
On August 15, 1971, on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Richard Nixon untied the US dollar…
Press List
The group of New York writers who look like ’90s supermodels were having a cocktail they’d read about in a…
How Can One Exist Among Others?
“Fragmentary writing is, ultimately, democratic writing. Each fragment enjoys an equal distinction. Even the most banal finds its exceptional reader.…
Brandhorst
Munich has a new museum on the Pinakothek site. Museum Brandhorst opened on May 21, 2009. The Free State of…
A Different Kind of Star
Tatiana De Pahlen: Gagosian Gallery, in Los Angeles, has just hosted an exhibition of your collaborative works. How did you…
Ann Craven
Ann Craven’s exhibitions have the richness of an opera populated with animal characters conscious of having an audience and posing…
A Not So Sad September
“How can anything ever present itself truly to us since its synthesis is never completed?” Says Maurice Merleau-Ponty, via Umberto…
The Shanghai Style
Many of today’s Shanghai-based artists claim inspiration from lao Shanghai (old Shanghai), referring specifically to the early twentieth century when…
Julia Stoschek
For three years Julia Stoschek has presented her private collection of video and media-based art to the general public in…
Blinky Palermo
Blinky Palermo is a near-mythical figure in postwar art, partly because of his biography, partly because of his pioneering art,…
Lars Laumann
Aimee Walleston: The video Morrissey Foretelling the Death of Diana (2006) is very accomplished, and it’s your first video piece…
Stories
是金子总会发光 有位艺术创作者，在创作道路上坎坷，苦苦追求艺术之路但总被拒之千里。每次他拿着自己满意的新作被泼冷水，回到家的时候，他的妻子总是对他说，“没关系，是金子总是会发光的。” 几十年过去，妻子也去世了，孤独的他默默无闻，站在昏暗的工作室中，心里还是默念 “是金子总是会发光的。” 等他也去世的时候，被送去火化，一股黑色的烟上升到空中，烧剩下的是一副黄金的骨架。 If It Is Gold, It Will Always Shine There was an art maker who had…