Lutz Bacher: What is X?
A profile of Lutz Bacher requires reimagining what a profile is, which is just fine because her art asks similar…
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As a Stranger Give it Welcome. A Conversation with Amanda Ziemele
“Either this is madness, or it is hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is…
Nancy Holt “Circles of Light” Gropius Bau / Berlin
Is Nancy Holt primarily a land artist? The notion of Land art conjures a time generations ago when landscape…
Whitney Biennial 2024 “Even Better Than the Real Thing” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Curating the Whitney Biennial is a fool’s errand by design. A snapshot of contemporary American art — a wide tent…
An Illegible World. Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu has a studio in a leafy courtyard in Berlin’s Wedding district, where an assistant is busy scrubbing old…
Aki Sasamoto “Sounding Lines” Para Site / Hong Kong
To enter Aki Sasamoto’s exhibition “Sounding Lines” at Para Site, you need a half-minute journey to the 22nd floor. You…
Present Tense: Win McCarthy
“Now” is already too late and, in its lateness, a lie: the utterance of now is a now no longer.…
MY HAND, MY HEART, MY ART. A Conversation with Judy Chicago
I get a call from Judy Chicago’s studio manager while I’m washing the dishes in my flat. She asks if…
Before We Dreamt in Halves: 60th Venice Biennale
Today, Mother died. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. — The Stranger, Albert Camus I’m not always sure…
Roni Horn Hauser & Wirth / Menorca
To get to Illa del Rey, on the northeastern side of Menorca, a short boat ride is necessary. This brief…
Peter Fischli: Quality
In The Right Way (1987), one in a series of films co-directed by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, a rat…
HOA, São Paulo. A conversation with Igi Lola Ayedun
HOA is one of the few art spaces in Brazil — if not the only one — to have a…
Accidental Composition. A Conversation with Paride Maria Calvia
Fittingly, the first time I “met” Paride Maria Calvia was when I worked in Donlon Books in London. From the…
WHERE’S THE ROMANCE? A Conversation with Peter Shire
As Peter Shire describes it, it’s “just another bucolic afternoon in Echo Park, Los Angeles, with the cars making whooshing…
Sin Wai Kin: Dreaming Before Language
1. Can a Word Contain the World? Language shapes reality; this much we know is true. On a good day,…
Diamond Stingily: Everybody Is Bronze
Diamond Stingily is a great storyteller. The first time I met her, she came over to the loft where I…