The Awakening of the Individual
He Jing: Let’s set aside for now the question of whether your works are “abstract.” Something people find interesting in…
Features
Allan Sekula
& Bruno Serralongue
Documentary photography and video have played a significant role in the evolution of global contemporary art, opening a new dimension…
Mladen Stilinovič
When I started making artworks about work, like Work is Disease (Karl Marx) (1981), in Yugoslavia it was interpreted in…
Johanna Billing
Melissa Gronlund: Your films and events bring up a number of questions concerning authorship, the particularity of media and public sociality,…
Rodney Graham
Matthew Shields: As an autodidact, you join a long and storied lineage that includes Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville,…
Hanne Darboven
An innumerable amountof sheets, coherent sequences of pages filled with sketches, notes, fragments of texts, recorded on graph and typewriter…
Charles Ray
Umberta Genta: Do you have an obsessive personality? I can’t help wondering about it when I look at the extreme perfection…
Llyn Foulkes
Maurizio Cattelan: This might not be the best way to start, but I have to ask you, what’s with all…
The Body Electric
Patrick Steffen: I recently spoke with Simone Forti about the legacy of postmodern dance, and she told me that one…
Conceptual Pop
Umberta Genta: What makes your work ironic, seductive and somehow serious at the same time? Stefan Brüggemann: Irony is another way…
Subversion through Inefficiency
One of the key concepts in Cruzvillegas’ work is “self-building,” which refers to the way that much housing in Third-World…
Domino Effect
Adriana Lara’s work unfolds an eternal, diachronic present in which concepts and positions constantly echo and redefine each other. The…
Ten Years after the Turmoil
Patricia Martín: Where did your philanthropic vocation come from? Eugenio López: It came slowly; mostly, I discovered it and learned it…
Tamayo's Reopening
Rita Gonzalez: Will you talk a little about the process involved in the construction and re-opening of Tamayo? How will…
In and Out
In the recent history of Mexico, 1994 was a seminal year. On January 1 the North American Free Trade Agreement…
Art is Not Enough
Olivier Zahm: You arrived in New York eleven years ago. What would you say to a young artist coming to New…