Wu Tsang Gropius Bau / Berlin
A gold curtain shimmers from a flagpole and catches the light; crystals cascade in thin streams and reflect rainbows; sunrays…
Magazine Articles
John Baldessari. BEFORE DAY FALLS
GEA POLITI: Is there a particular reason why you switched from painting to photography after a while, like did you…
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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…