High Art
David Lieske: Zoe, you just moved to California, while Mike, you remain based in New York. How does this bicoastal…
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The Strenght to See
Philosopher Gilles Deleuze heeded the visionary philosophers — those he saw as seers — and considered Spinoza a vivant voyant…
A Man with Influence
Yongwoo Lee: I would like to start by talking about how we both understand contemporary art as a response to…
The Forensic Evidence of Failure
Maurizio Cattelan: Your first solo exhibition in New York, at Ramiken Crucible in 2010, was titled “The Management of Barbarism.” What…
Rashid Johnson. A Post-Black-Power Child
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!
Galettene: Cake or Sex or All Three
Artists who work together benefit from the creation of the semi-autonomous grouping. Coming together creates some ability to counter the…
Being Hated is One of My Jobs
David Elliott: How old were you when you realized that you wanted to become an artist? Aida Makoto: At the age…
Society under Construction
Yilmaz Dziewior: Before working together as a duo, each of you had a career as a solo artist. What were…
Lost in Transformation
I hadn’t been back to China since 2005. An eternity considering the country’s rapid transformation, its urbanization and economic development,…
The Thingness of Light
At its most compelling, James Turrell’s work accomplishes a full integration of art, architecture and site through the manipulation of…
After the Floods
Barnaby Furnas often credits Kara Walker’s vision of the bad old South as a catalyst for his own Civil War…
Venice Inside Out
Tavares Strachan Bahamas pavilion Art and travel are like two old lovers who do not always get along. Bruce Chatwin…
The Encyclopedic Palace
May 27, 2013: On the train from Rome to Venice, I kill time studying other passengers’ features and behaviors, trying…
Shit, How Are You Going to Do This One?
Udo Kittelmann: What are your most important influences? Rudolf Stingel: *1 Massimiliano Gioni: You often spoke about an exhibition by…
Against the Archive
In a recent two-person exhibition with Douglas Gordon, Miroslaw Balka showed, among other works, Four Something.1 This single text work…
What Are You Thinking About?
With arresting simplicity, the works of Ron Mueck depict figures, feelings and innate sensations that for generations and centuries have…