Always Meant to Be Worn
At The Met Costume Institute’s exhibition “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between,” I happened upon two teenage girls…
Magazine Articles
Nightmares in Oil
The balancing act between Apollonian thought and Dionysian urges has a long lineage in art and literature, not least in…
Music is an Architecture that Speaks
Lionel Bovier: First, I’d like to situate Studio Venezia — your project for the French Pavilion at the 57th Venice…
Would That I Might Reach Myself Before All Others¹
Among Maria Lai’s earliest drawings there is a compact nucleus made up of portraits of Sardinian women at work: hair…
We’re Here
Death drops: breathtaking moves in any vogue dance, sudden and dramatic collapses that meet the ground with explosive impact. NON…
Yes, Difference Again
From Flash Art no.143, November – December 1988. With a new introduction by the author Friday, 2 December 2016: I…
Art in the Age of AR
For two decades the work of Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, US; lives in New York) has developed in response to…
Take Care
The recent work of Anna-Sophie Berger (b. 1989, Austria; lives in New York) has included phenomenologically expansive installations that take…
Spheres of Illusion
“You are nothing more than the image others have made of you.” It’s a line out of World on a…
Grace Wales Bonner. Broadening the Spectrum
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!
Zines in Vitrines
I tried to interview Raymond Pettibon. I thought we might have some things to talk about. We both like Joyce…
Race, Class and Kelley Walker: A Tenth Disaster
If you are wondering whether there is anything progressive about the politics of the art world or if the politics…
Do You Love Me?
Puppies Puppies: What do you think about my work? Nancy Lupo: Before I ever saw the work in person I…
Jimmie Durham: Centering the American World
Originally published in Flash Art no. 312, January – February 2017. Standing before the US House of Representatives, Jimmie Durham,…
The Privilege of Irrationality
It’s been pitched as the story of an imaginary American pope, but also as a show about Vatican intrigues. The…
Everyday is like Friday
Born in Corsica, Pierre-Ange Carlotti likes to call himself an islander. Island people are usually solitary, but also curious and…