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…
Magazine Articles
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!
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…
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…