Berlin Stories
On the occasion of the first Berlin Biennale, Flash Art edited a portfolio of texts celebrating Berlin as an…
Magazine Articles
The Better Biennale
“Aperto ’93,” curated by Flash Art editor Helena Kontova and twelve other critics and curators active with the magazine, was…
Guilty Memory of the Future
We call her “she.” Whether she’s the satnav, the sultry secretary or the leader of the robot uprising, her hologram…
From Pygmalion to Ping Body
In retrospect, we may look upon the long tradition of figure sculpture … as an extended psychic dress rehearsal for…
No Safe Mode
Designers of technology love to propagate the myth of a just world, in which people always get what they deserve.…
Adam Pendleton’s Black Dada Reader
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!
Vastness in Flatland
From Flash Art International No. 189 July–August–September 1996 Vija Celmins (b. 1938; lives in New York) was born in Latvia…
A Taste for Absence
Performance of a Massacre (2016), a recent performance piece by Yan Xing (b. 1986, China) at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, unfolded…
The Object of the City
Where the most ambiguous activities of the living are pursued, the inanimate may sometimes catch a reflection of their most…
Pussy Power
In The Misandrists (2017), a term meaning “hatred of men” (the sisterly opposite of “misogynist”), Bruce LaBruce (b. 1964, Canada)…
Ligia Lewis. Refusing Directions
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!
Les mots et les images
I met the artist Rodrigo Hernández (b. 1983, Mexico) one year ago, when he was on a residency in New…
Colossal Roots, Tradition-Reality and Contestation of Asian Modernity
“Before we try to determine the rights and wrongs or the faults in modernity, it is necessary to relativize modernity…
Meaning Lindsay
In 2012, Lindsay Lohan’s Porsche crashed into a dump truck on the Pacific Coast Highway. She was on her way…
Like a Hologram
Arriving at his home in Lisbon, I am welcomed by an artwork from 1979. It is a lead panel on…
Slaves to Meaning: Pope.L
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!