Magazine Articles
Amy Sillman. An Impossible Language
The modern history of painting is framed by narratives of artists struggling to undercut its representational character as art’s most…
Plunging into the Void: Judy Chicago’s Images
I first saw Judy Chicago’s Birth Trinity (1983) and Birth Tear/Tear (1982) when visiting the artist’s studio in Belen, New…
Antek Walczak. Planned Obsolescence?
Antek Walczak advances the medium of painting as a kind of machine through which social, economic, political, and technological systems…
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Feminist: On Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago had been Judy Chicago for five years when she published her autobiography Through the Flower: My Struggle as…
Narrative Excess: Judy Chicago's Work in Text
“I feel as though I’m still not writing. I foresee and want a way of speaking that’s more fanciful, more…
Tony Conrad. Aural Symbiosis
I met Tony Conrad the first time while playing the carillon at Saint Thomas Church one afternoon between 5:00 and…
The Mask and the Motor
Around 1968 Raul Guerrero purchased a Yaqui ceremonial mask from a dealer in indigenous artifacts (and purported warlock) working out…
Scene of a Scene
OMNES VIAE ROMAM DUCUNT — all roads lead to Rome. In the case of Tobias Kaspar this may hold true,…
Bruce Nauman: Being is Nothing
The Absurd Wouldn’t it be convenient to introduce this essay by noting a general euphoria surrounding Bruce Nauman in the…
The Everyday Right Outside The Door
Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, US; lives in New York) interrogates the nature of painting by creating assemblages that dynamically…
Piper’s Threat
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!
Playas Only
At the end of March, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., opened the exhibition “No Spectators:…
Luchita Hurtado: The Way Men Never See Women
Two long tunics made by artist Luchita Hurtado hang in my closet. One is ribbed and purple, and the other…
Retrofitting for Eternal Youth
Who is hotter: Betty or Veronica? This is the unanswerable question at the heart of the Archie comics franchise. The…
Symbolic Violence/Physical Violence
After his Leichtmetallräder (2016) and Snowflake (2017) series, Yngve Holen (b. 1982, Germany/Norway; lives in Berlin) has turned again to…