Self-Portrait and Self
Frances Stark (b. 1967, US; lives in Los Angeles) is constantly introducing herself. “Okay, now I guess I should say…
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Specters of the Avant-Garde
One day, guided by a false sense of originality, someone will write the history of the avant-garde as a long…
A Tear in the Fabric of Reality
Connecting and collating people, things and information in a practice that often extends beyond the creation of discreet art objects,…
Mediums of Conversation
The history of art in India dates back to a variety of mediums, from the renowned Ajanta Cave paintings to…
Property Relations
The conceptual work of American artist Cameron Rowland (b.1988, US; lives in New York) assumes a drily treacherous form that…
Enrico David
Enrico David’s vision is a multiform and decentralized one, dissecting and disintegrating whatever it is turned on, a gaze in…
John Latham
February 23, 2011, would have been John Latham’s 90th birthday. There was a little gathering at his house, Flat Time…
Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch (b.1930, Switzerland; lives in Rüschegg, Bern) painted two portraits of Johanna, the teenage daughter of a German industrialist,…
Betty Tompkins
In 1969, Betty Tompkins (b. 1945, USA; lives in New York and Mount Pleasant, PA) began her series of “Fuck…
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
“The fourth estate” is a term that refers to a social and political force whose influence is not consistently or…
Productive Contradictions
“Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes…
Hyperreal, if You Like
The figures in the paintings of Sascha Braunig (b. 1983, Canada; lives in Portland, ME) and Avery K. Singer (b.…
Tomory Dodge
Brett Cody Rogers: You grew up on the Eastern slope of Colorado. How do you think the mountains and planes…
Ydessa Hendeles
Alexander Ferrando: You typically offer no didactic interpretation of your shows. Yet you meticulously assemble the many disparate elements. What…
Salla Tykkä
The principle player in Salla Tykkä’s film Airs Above the Ground (2010) is a white Lipizzaner stallion. As the film’s…
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson
A warning rather than an announcement, a reminder for all those in a coma of nationalism, Your Country Doesn’t Exist…