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…
Magazine Articles
Annie Fletcher / Director of IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Lygia Clark “Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948–1958” Guggenheim Museum / Bilbao
Anyone who spends time with young artists is familiar with the changes they experience during their first years working. This…
Wolfgang Tillmans “Today is the First Day” Wiels / Brussels
“Today is the First Day” is Wolfgang Tillmans’s first monographic exhibition in Belgium. With works covering a period from the…
GO, DADDY!
Issy Wood, GO DADDY!, 2020. Visual project for Flash Art.
Daniel Baumann / Director of Kunsthalle Zurich
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Sarah Lucas “HONEY PIE” Sadie Coles HQ / London
Take the song “Honey Pie” by the Beatles and turn it into a string quartet — that would be the…
Episode I: An Introduction
On Monday, March 2nd, while having breakfast at the Hotel Albert 1er in Toulouse before running the workshop “Exposition collective…
Jenna Sutela “NO NO NSE NSE” Kunsthall Trondheim / Norway
It’s no small feat that the recently appointed director of the Kunsthall Trondheim, Stefanie Hessler, lured one of the most…
Laura Owens House of Gaga / Mexico City
To realize her site-specific installation at House of Gaga, Laura Owens locked herself up in the gallery with her assistants…
Arte Povera 1967-1987. An Indirect continuity runs down through Antiform and Arte povera to intertextuality and the "weak" relativistic subject of the 1980s
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 137 November-December 1987 Among the many histories of Italian art in the…
In memory of Germano Celant: Arte povera. Notes on a guerrilla war
Flash Art mourns the loss of Germano Celant, critic, curator, theorist of the term “Arte povera”, of which the manifesto…
Jana Euler: Contextual Painting in Times of Global Groundlessness
As much as an apt consideration about painting today would have been a welcome opening, there is an elephant in…
Rochelle Goldberg “Psychomachia” Miguel Abreu Gallery / New York
Wild lilies, sand, sourdough bread, tuna cans, gold, eye shadow, desert dirt: these are among the distinctive materials that Rochelle…
Nick Mauss “Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.” Kunsthalle Basel
This show, conceived by Nick Mauss, opens — coherently — upon a threshold. A succession of flats commences, the first…
Frida Orupabo “12 self portraits” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis / Rome
Frida Orupabo’s imagery is both archival and personal — blurring the line between the two, if such a division exists.…