Artificial Centuries: Hate and the City in Gary Indiana’s Criticism
Originally published in Flash Art International n. 324, February–March 2019 The shuttering of the Village Voice in August was met…
TIME MACHINE
Divisions
Originally published in Aperto ’93: Emergency/Emergenza, Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1993. The European scene of late has been dominated by the…
Sloppy, poor and free
In 1993, the world was not so much different than today. In the Balkans people were killing each other…
APERTO ’93: 1993–2023
Aperto ’93 set the artistic agenda for the 1990s. It is widely considered to have been one of the best…
IN YOUTH IS PLEASURE. A Conversation with Mike Kelley
Mike and I used to hang out and talk at length about many things — art, life, memories. I am…
YOU HAVE MADE AN EPIC! A Conversation with Mike Kelley
In this exclusive interview for Flash Art, cult moviemaker John Waters spoke to artist Mike Kelley about a range of…
Conceptual Art
The contradiction of conceptual art is that it remained in many ways modernist. Though critical of modernism’s formalism and its…