From Criticism to Complicity
From Flash Art n°129,1986 Peter Nagy: In what ways does this new work depart from or elaborate upon work done…
Magazine Articles
Jacques Lacan
Anamorphosis I will pass around something that dates from a hundred years earlier, from 1533, a reproduction of a painting…
Omer Fast
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 262 October 2008. Omer Fast explores the disjuncture in documentary media by splicing…
Tropicality
“Tropicality could be a way to identify a combination of landscape, abstract desires, and organic intentions, a very sensorial but…
Painting
In “The Legacy of Jackson Pollock” (1958) Allan Kaprow famously wrote about how the abstract painter created an environment from…
Francesca von Habsburg
As a collector, philanthropist and activist, Francesca von Habsburg is determined to leave her mark. The daughter of the late…
André Cadere
To the art world connoisseur, the name André Cadere is largely associated with conceptual art, although he does not rank…
Franz West
Darsie Alexander: What’s your earliest childhood memory? Who was the single biggest influence on your life besides your mother? You…
Annette Kelm
Michaela Coffee Break (2009). Courtesy Johann König, Berlin. Thinking about Annette Kelm’s images is like thinking of a kind of…
Being an Artist is the Closest Thing to Being a Criminal that Exists
From Flash Art International no. 140, May–June 1988 Although his adventuresome images and life are extraordinary, William N. Copley (1919–96)…
Proto-Povera-Radical-Sleek
In the aftermath of the recent death of novelist, philosopher and semiotician Umberto Eco, I asked myself about the resonance…
David Hammons?
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
Be Emotional
Artist Bill Kouligas runs the Berlin-based record label PAN. Kouligas grew up in Athens, then worked in London as a…
The Most Relative Media
Let’s start with purple. It’s everywhere in the work of Martine Syms (b. 1988, US): the backdrop of the video…
From Line to Sphere
On August 15, 1971, on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Richard Nixon untied the US dollar…
Press List
The group of New York writers who look like ’90s supermodels were having a cocktail they’d read about in a…