Against Passive Seeing: Shaun Leonardo
Exploring issues of race and masculinity, Shaun Leonardo’s multimedia practice exposes and redresses the white supremacist power structures that oppress…
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Toyin Ojih Odutola “A Countervailing Theory” Barbican Centre / London
For her first UK solo exhibition, “A Countervailing Theory,” Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola presents forty drawings in the Curve…
Cindy Sherman: Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird; or, A Cage of Gold
“It’s almost an impression of how the character sees her environment, not how we would see it — or if…
Tarek Atoui "Waters' Witness" Fridericianum / Kassel
A metallic clamor pulses across an arrangement of marble blocks, steel beams, cables, and handmade musical instruments, before a rustling…
Harold Mendez "Let us gather in a flourishing way" ICA / Los Angeles
What’s there and what’s not there? Harold Mendez’s presentation at the ICA, Los Angeles, is an exploration into the meaning…
Robert Smithson "Primordial Beginnings" Marian Goodman Gallery / Paris
Between 1957 and 1961, Robert Smithson (1938–1973) exhibited works with a stylistic affinity to Abstract Expressionism, which was then mainstream…
FLASH ART #335 SUMMER 2021
Raphael Hefti “Salutary Failures” Kunsthalle Basel
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), a morality tale about the wonders of technology at the end of the twentieth century,…
Queer Correspondence: A Mail-Art Initiative by Cell Project Space, East London. A Conversation with Eliel Jones
How to become a medium: Seismic transmission with Nora Turato
I had planned to use the call to ask Nora Turato questions about typography — about the typefaces that she…
"Don't Let This Be Easy" Walker Art Center / Minneapolis
Minneapolis: the site of a deadly reckoning that recently primed the world for a new wave of civil rights activism.…
Yona Friedman®: A Case Study from Radicalism to Idiocracy
Almost a year after the death of Yona Friedman (1923–2020), we offer an excerpt from a text by François Roche…
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…
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…
Episode III: Speech of an Object
Hi, my name is Pierre Bal-Blanc. I was born in the small working-class town of Ugine, in France. I live…
Ecstatic Exhibitionism: Masahiro Nakagawa's "20471120"
(Episode II) NewCostume is a column by Matthew Linde exploring contemporary fashion practice. November 20, 2047: the explosive timestamp for…