Magritte and Contemporary Art
Oh, the kitschy cultural stigma of René Magritte. First glimpses of the artist’s work can reveal the magnetism of art…
Magazine Articles
Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers
Sleepwalkers feels like a New York night. And it is. Shot in all five boroughs, using the city as its…
Matthieu Ronsse
Museum space is transformed into absolute chaos. A clothing line with clean clothes hangs between two walls, underneath it…
Willoughby Sharp
Andrea Bellini: In 1958, you started working with Yves Klein. Can you tell me an anecdote about him? Willoughby Sharp:…
Sci-Fi Historicism
The consensus emerging from the 2006 Orange County Museum of Art California Biennial is that young artists on the West…
Seth Price
Maurizio Cattelan: Ciao, Seth. So I thought of doing something different. Maybe you know that the magazine sometimes has readers…
The Good, the Bad and the Very Bad: Theory of the Market
Welcome to the disconnect of 2007 Same as the disconnect of 2006 Painter Charline von Heyl recently described American’s disconnect between…
Andreas Gursky: Pyongyang
London waits for an Andreas Gursky exhibition and then two come along at once. This spring twelve new works by…
Marcellvs L.
For a number of years, Marcellvs L.’s first video works only circulated from hand-to-hand, via DVD copies produced by the…
Francis Alÿs
Originally published in Flash Art Intenational no. 254, May – June 2007. It’s always strange to see the work of…
Robert Gober
The following text originally appeared in Flash Art No. 177 Summer 1994 and was written by Henry Schwartz, a psychoanalyst…
Isa Genzken
The art student was shocked. The carefully prepared presentation collapsed under a surprisingly simple if not quite obvious question the…
Sci-Fi Historicism
Ed Ruscha’s objective inventory of life in Southern California is wholly determined by the road, the highway and freeway, as…
Shadows on the Façade
Maurizio Cattelan: I want to start with something you said to Mery Nonha regarding your film Shadows on The Façade…
Andro Wekua
Andro wekua’s work combines a seductive and terrifying sense of composition, which seems to be walking in its sleep, with…
Mika Rottenberg
The female body, in all its potential fantastic proportions, obsesses Mika Rottenberg. Her eccentric videos have featured body builders, dancers,…