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…
Magazine Articles
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…
Live from Los Angeles
F for fair and BCAM for Broad Contemporary Art Museum As I write this, LA galleries are already preparing for…
Weathermen
The theme of climate change has enjoyed the worldwide priority it deserves since the UN published its shocking first world…
Melvin Moti
At the 5th Berlin Biennial, Melvin Moti showed his recent film E.S.P. (2007) at the Neue Nationalgalerie together with a…
Matthew Stone
Norman Rosenthal: What is art to you? And it’s function in the world? Matthew Stone: I believe that every action…
Joseph Beuys
Giancarlo Politi: What does this Büro der Organisation für direkte Demokratie durch Volksabstimmung (Bureau for Direct Democracy), which you’ve installed…
Rem Koolhaas
Francesco Bonami: Do you still think that Manhattan is the center of the culture of congestion? Rem Koolhaas: It is…
Maurizio Cattelan
After an almost three-year break, during which he curated, along with Gioni and Subotnick, the 4th Berlin Biennial (a real…
Carla Accardi
Hans Ulrich Obrist: What were the trends in the Academy? Carla Accardi: The Academy’s trends focused on Italian art, while…