Magazine Articles
Negative Space, Objects in the Absence of Performance
As art institutions adopt performance-based practices, artists, curators, and archivists are faced with new considerations about how to classify and…
#336 Fall 2021
Too Old to Die Young
In her 1975 poem “Liebestod,” Gwen Head writes of a girl on a beach who sunbathes with a glittering gun…
Alex Gartenfeld / Artistic Director at the ICA Miami
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Kara Walker Sprüth Magers / London
Coinciding with the artist’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission, Sprüth Magers London presents the first retrospective of Kara Walker’s films.…
The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn
It is with immense sadness that we acknowledge the loss of Rebecca Horn, a pivotal and vital figure in the…
Michael E. Smith Modern Art / London
Writing in “The Spirit of Things,” the critic Barbara M. Benedict considers the rise of consumer society in relation to…
Nayland Blake Institute of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles
Since the mid-1980s, Nayland Blake has engaged the politics and aesthetics of identity in America. Biracial, queer, and gender nonconforming,…
Nora Turato Serralves Museum / Porto
For her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Nora Turato drove her two greyhounds, Taco and Tuna, all the way from…
Jimmy Robert: Reworking Performativity
The work of Berlin-based artist Jimmy Robert (b. Guadeloupe (FR) 1975) is situated in the interstices between the art object,…
Sidsel Meineche Hansen Chisenhale gallery / London
“Welcome to End-Used City” continues Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s ongoing consideration of techno-capitalism’s stranglehold on biopolitics. The focus here is the…
Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Such Feeling
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
When You Mix Something, It’s Good to Know Your Ingredients: Modes of Addressing and Economies of Attention in the Visual and Performing Arts
The event-oriented neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and ’60s were very much driven by an oppositional stance to the conventions of…
Image, performance, protest
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
I Am My Body: On Judy Chicago’s Birth Project¹
I Am My Body A thump, thump, thump opens the 1980 movie Right Out of History: The Making of Judy…