’85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art
In a display of both bravura and spectacle, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) launched its grand opening last…
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Jimmy Robert
“Manifold centrefold” — the title of Jimmy Robert’s exhibition at White Light in Düsseldorf last year — could equally be…
The new New Museum
The Bowery brings out a sentimental streak in New York. For decades the street was seen as a shady problem…
New York’s Lower East Side
Nearly 30 years after the opening of “The Real Estate Show” — the legendary guerrilla exhibition that took over an…
Binding Durations
The purpose of this text is to investigate recent work by five artists embedded in the Mexican contemporary art scenes…
Matthew Monahan
Maurizio Cattelan: Hello Matthew? Is that you? The phone signal is very bad. Is this a good time for some…
Larry Clark
Paul McCarthy: When was Tulsa? Larry Clark: From ’62 to ’71. PM: Karen and I met in ’63. In ’66, ’67,…
Cezary Bodzianowski
Adam Szymczyk: Dear Cezary, Flash Art wanted me to ask you a couple of questions with the intention of publishing…
Summer’s White Nights
It may sound odd, but if you’re new to Oslo and its small but exquisite art scene, then Berlin is…
Collage: The Unmonumental Picture
Much has already been written about the audacity of the New Museum’s inaugural exhibition. As it made its ascension to…
Santiago Sierra: La Trampa
“Visibility is a trap,” says Foucault in Discipline and Punish, describing the Panopticon prison structure. A disciplinary model, in other…
Serban Savu
On first appearance, Serban Savu’s meticulously rendered paintings peopled with workers and ‘ordinary’ folk read as tender documents of the…
Vanessa Beecroft
and Pietra Brettkelly
Beginning in 2006, New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly filmed artist Vanessa Beecroft for sixteen months, when she was in South…
What’s after Italy?
After Arte Povera work in the early ’60s and mid ’70s by Anselmo, Boetti, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz,…
Time is on Our Side
Andrei Tarkovsky shot Nostalghia in Italy in 1982, away from the USSR, a country in which he could no longer…
Gino De Dominicis
Dying is no more than not being seen. (Fernando Pessoa) Gino De Dominicis was an extraordinary artist in terms of…