Yan Lei
Beatrice Leanza: Since the mid ’90s your work has consisted mainly of five large series of paintings (“International Scenery,” “Climbing…
Magazine Articles
Outsider Visions
Raw art that exists in extremis, at the very edges of culture and beyond — this could be one definition…
Takashi Murakami
Andrea Bellini: When you curated the show “Superflat” at MOCA in Los Angeles, you wrote that the world in the…
Into Me/Out of Me
When Marina Abramovic was in the early stages of planning her “Seven Easy Pieces,” the re-staging of seven seminal performances…
Gedi Sibony
Philippe Vergne: You conceive environments made out of what could be perceived as detritus, leftovers… or material “without qualities.” It…
Anselm Reyle
Anselm Reyle picks up the languages of modern abstraction like objets trouvés. He draws purposefully on the last century’s fund…
Studio Visits
I aspire to making art objects and collages that are like really good music that you keep listening to, keep generating,…
Lali Chetwynd
Aaron Moulton: You trained as a painter at the Royal College of Art in London but your work branches out…
Cerith Wyn Evans
In the last few years Cerith Wyn Evans has become a point of reference in London’s artworld, an unavoidable entryway…
Tue Greenfort
When urban foxes are accidentally attracted to a photo-shoot by slices of sausage, when flies write poetic scores on panes…
Matti Braun
Matti Braun thinks big. And he’s looking at you. His interest lies in the cultural and artistic relationships that transgress…
Paul McCarthy
you enter the darkened core of The Caribbean Pirates (2001 – 2005), the gooey stomp sounding away across the room…
Early Risers
In recent years London has consistently had a healthy flow of young commercial galleries and the current crop is particularly…
Curatorial Schools
In the past few years, contemporary art has overtaken all the characteristics of an entertainment industry. Within the art system,…
Into Me/Out of Me
In the year 2000, an exhibition was planned for New York’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center that was initially supposed to…
Sterling Ruby
Since his first public solo outings about three years ago, Sterling Ruby’s combinations of performance-video, occultish drawings and collages, organic…