Ian Wilson: There Was a Discussion
“No, I hadn’t heard about Ian Wilson, his life stood as an example for me, his death merely extends its…
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Listen to This! Sound Art Reflections
Sound as art emerged in the counterculture 1960s as a lively, open-ended alternative away from the center. Practitioners with backgrounds…
The Anticipatory Role of Germano Celant
Statements about Germano Celant’s contribution to conceptual art usually limit themselves to invoking his invention of the notion of arte…
Liliane Lijn: Reinventing the Archetype
Shall we begin at the beginning? Or, to be more precise, The Beginning (1959)? One of the earliest recorded works…
Desiring Machines: The Exhibition as Automaton in Philippe Parreno’s Work
Every night during the summer of 1993, artificial fireflies automatically lit up the garden at the Villa Arson, Nice. But…
Olafur Eliasson: Planetary Metabolism and the Charismatic Landscapes of the Cryosphere
A series of thirty photographic prints are hung in an evenly spaced grid on a white wall in London. The…
Tomás Saraceno — How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Darkness hung in the trees, forming a thick mass together with the humid air, enveloping everything. The only features discernible…
Me. You. Us. Them.
Have you wondered why the inside of your head feels so strange these days? We think you’re morphing into something…
We Are All in This Together. Aren’t We?
It is late April in 2020, and already I have been in isolation for almost two months. Following the “unfortunate”…
Rest as Revolution: The Speculative Nature of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Figurations
Race, resistance, rage, rebellion — words that are presently etched into the forefronts of everyone’s mind. As cities burn, glistening…
Post-Catastrophic Romance: On Neïl Beloufa’s www.screen-talk.com
For more than a decade, Neïl Beloufa has produced a vast array of films and installations that propel viewers into…
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Summing up the iconic life of dear friend and legendary provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge would be a daunting task in…
Dana Schutz: Weathering the Storm
“How do you begin to depict a feeling?” wonders Dana Schutz, articulating a central problem that drives her artistic practice.1…
Keeping it Alive: Oscar Murillo
Who better to interrogate the inherited habits of modernism, in so far as they continue to shape painting, than Oscar…
COMPOSITIONAL MACHINES. Seeking an endgame or a new beginning, Avery Singer explores what it means to dream of painting without the hand
Transfixed by a trio of Avery Singer works under the diffused glow of the Frieze Los Angeles tent, I was…
Emily Mae Smith: A Broom of One’s Own
Fresh, febrile, shot through with humor and glamour, the paintings of Emily Mae Smith are reliquaries of art history and…