Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner’s special project for Flash Art n°28-29, 1972
Magazine Articles
Flesh Art
from Flash Art n°44-45, 1974
About Pictures
“Pictures” is the title I gave to an exhibition, organized for Artists Space in New York City in the fall…
In Memory of Sigmar Polke
The size of many of my pictures is 150 x 200 cm, 130 x 150 cm, 130 x 140 or…
Matthew Barney
Originally published in Flash Art no. 162, 1992. I was teaching… and the one thing that terrified me no end…
Peter Halley
From Flash Art n°150, 1990 Giancarlo Politi: Someone like yourself, an intellectual, self-possessed and reflective, can you enjoy the act…
Jeff Koons
Giancarlo Politi: I can’t imagine you in your studio, because many of your works are made in a foundry. How…
Gerhard Richter
Annunciation after Titian Is it only by chance that, as one of the few works that Gerhard Richter has quoted from…
Janus
A few years ago, when a colleague roughly ten years my senior asked what I was doing that Friday night,…
Larry Clark
Mike Kelley: Tulsa was the first photographic work I ever saw that realistically depicted the drug scene. It shocked me…
Damien Hirst
A glass full of bloodstained water in which some little fish are dying / a page of typing torn into…
Moving In. Eight contemporary african artists
originally published in Flash Art International n°186, 1996 This discourse disturbs the gaps occupied by an articulate enunciatory practice that…
Sensation
The Young British Artists in “Sensation” have been growing up in public — the majority with their pants down. If they’ve…
Cities on the Move
A fascination with the socio-topographic complexity of the modern metropolis is not new in the 20th century. What is new…
Touch Me I’m Sick
Fear eats the soul Of the two gigantic Buddhas that dominated the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan there remains nothing but…
Francesco Vezzoli
Massimiliano Gioni: You worked with Helmut Berger and Carlo di Palma, John Maybury and Marisa Berenson: an army of stars…