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…
Magazine Articles
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…
Slash-and-Burn Interlaced with Youthful Volatility
The city-state of Singapore nearly straddles the equator. We landed there in a heavy, moist heat tinged with toxic haze,…
Transformation Through Depoliticization
When house music first emerged out of disco and soul in the 1980s, its message was remarkably different from that…
Club AMO
Between the end of the 1960s and the early 2000s, nightclubs in Europe were the outposts of progressive social and…
Atmosphere
An Atmosphere needs a room. A room is a strange concept. In fact, to create an A today there is…
Zizek
A group of people dance ceaselessly. They rub against each other. They also rub against the walls and the floor.…
Mamba Negra
It’s 2013 in downtown São Paulo. On the rooftop of an iconic building on the margins of the infamous elevated…