Rum, Sodomy and the Lush
I recently came across this manuscript, hidden away in a safe that was unearthed from a Los Angeles dump. All…
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Cultivated Schmäh
While holding onto the unbending social etiquette of Strauss waltzes, for the past sixty years Austrians have had to wrestle…
Brigitte Kowanz
Rainer Fuchs: At the beginning of your career you and Franz Graf executed paintings together, which demonstrated an obvious discontinuity…
Maurizio Cattelan
Legs dangling over the top of the Menil Collection’s Renzo Piano façade, backlit by the sky, Maurizio Cattelan’s mechanical drummer…
Rachel Harrison
On my way to Rachel Harrison’s Brooklyn studio, I had one thing that I was going to bug her about:…
The Cinematic
Thirty years ago, Dan Graham proposed a plan for a movie theater that would immediately lay bare cinema’s social and…
Dexter Dalwood
In a 2010 interview with critic David Coggins, Dexter Dalwood points out that “History, just like art history, is a…
Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves
Ten Thousand Waves, which received its world premier in May 2010 at the Biennale of Sydney, is Isaac Julien’s most-ambitious…
Tomasz Kowalski
Joanna Zielińska: The overall image in your works is governed by very specific rules. Motifs circulate and paintings — which…
Ján Mančuška
Vít Havránek: In your theoretical texts and live performances the artist is perceived as ‘Homo Politicus’ and political self-identification has…
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Florence Derieux: You created your own production company, Kick the Machine, right at the beginning of your career in 1999,…
Julian Schnabel
Edward Rubin: Your current exhibition “Julian Schnabel: Art and Film” at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto is quite…
Sensation
Artists and curators always display a sense of badly concealed pride when one of their exhibitions is chastised as ‘controversial.’…
Marcel Broodthaers
Elusive and recondite, Marcel Broodthaers was a poet for 20 years before he turned his efforts toward art production. His…
Ann Hamilton: Stylus
Ann Hamilton’s installations have often directly engaged their architectural surroundings; her most recent and “quietly” stunning project Stylus, a large-scale,…
Claire Hooper
Ian Hunt: Before Nyx (2010) you made Nach Spandau (2008), also made in the U-Bahn, Berlin’s metro. What is their…