Xinyi Cheng “The Horse with Eye Blinders” Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Berlin
The view from my bedroom window looks out onto a courtyard framed by a towering window-less wall. Some mornings, when…
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Martha Joseph / Associate Curator at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Episode V: Le Salon Turc
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam recently acquired Ulay’s pivotal work Irritation – There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976),…
Helen Marten: Whispered Circuitry, Drunken Quality
Approximation “It is said that our eyeballs record the last thing we see before we die. That there is a…
Pedro Cabrita Reis and Cerith Wyn Evans Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
When the relevance of art for the functioning of society is under scrutiny, every show that can actually open is…
Lovecraft Country: Misha Green’s Historical Melodrama
The tropes of the horror genre — dread, terror, violence, trauma, monsters, and evil forces — constitute nightmarish plots specific…
Lydia Ourahmane “Barzakh” Kunsthalle Basel
The correlation between one’s home situation and one’s life has been a tireless truism of this past year — and…
Lemaniana. Reflections on other scenes. A survey of current artistic production in the Léman Region
As part of our ongoing investigation of contemporary practices, the following pages discuss on the new project “Lemaniana,” opening at…
Promising Young Woman: A Dialogue
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” — Margaret Atwood…
The Age of Love: Notes toward a Nonbinary World
I remember a team meeting at MACBA — it must have been around 2010 — in which the question of…
Alejandro Cardenas “ALEXANDRIA” Almine Rech / New York
These days, it’s not hard to imagine a future in which we can no longer go outside — everywhere we…
Emma McIntyre “Pour plenty on the worlds” Chris Sharp Gallery / Los Angeles
Like clouds, abstract paintings invite our own inferences and preoccupations, showing us what we want to see. Pushing against this…
Love Song: On Lana Del Rey’s Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
In “How to Disappear,” a song from her last album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey leads us to expect…
MODEL CITIZEN: Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons. A Modernist Revulsion for Nostalgia
When I was living three driftless years in Berlin, I, like all residents, new or otherwise, would have to register…
Episode IV: Parterre / The Stalls
The systems of governance that Michel Foucault and Deleuze & Guattari taught us to identify as “sovereignty,” “discipline,” and “control”…
Fluid Gesture. Transformations and Transmissions in the Bodies of Michele Rizzo
There is something fluid in dance. It lies neither in the quality of the action — obviously kinetic — nor…