Painting
In “The Legacy of Jackson Pollock” (1958) Allan Kaprow famously wrote about how the abstract painter created an environment from…
Magazine Articles
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…
Mark Leckey
Within the Abrons Art Center classical theater setting, Leckey appeared, light in his step and with a microphone taped to…
Damien Hirst
Michele Robecchi: How did “Cornucopia,” the exhibition at the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, come about? Damien Hirst: I love the…
Editor's Letter
Following the death of Italian novelist, semiologist and philosopher Umberto Eco, we have taken questions posed by Eco’s eponymous theory…
How Can One Exist Among Others?
“Fragmentary writing is, ultimately, democratic writing. Each fragment enjoys an equal distinction. Even the most banal finds its exceptional reader.…