Notes on Venice Biennale
A tale of a Nose Everyone talks of the high life, money, carousing and non-stop parties of Venice. I love…
Magazine Articles
Erika Hoffmann
Ellen Blumenstein: You are currently working on the new installation of the annual exhibition at your collection, which opened in…
German Institutions
Accompanying the second part of Flash Art Focus Germany is a survey devoted to German art institutions that play an…
Number Shows
Lucy R. Lippard’s first numbered show was “557,087” at Seattle’s World’s Fair Pavilion in September 1969, followed a few months…
Vladimir Nikolic
Maja Ćirić: Where do you see yourself “at home” in the art world? Vladimir Nikolic: “Home” is not stable in…
Reality and Co-Reality
in Painting
This issue of Flash Art introduces a new framework for our ongoing engagement with contemporary art and its discourses. In addition to…
Is There a Lot to Understand?
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colorists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire In an interview published in March 2011…
Cyprien Gaillard
Susanne Pfeffer: For your exhibition “The Recovery of Discovery” at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin you created a…
Ragnar Kjartansson
The final act of the opera The Marriage of Figaro (1786) culminates in a heartfelt reconciliation between the two main…
The Scottish Connection
Figurative painting in Britain over the past two decades is a story of fragmentation, of individual accomplishment that has never…
Katharina Grosse,
Frank Nitsche
Viktor Neumann: I would like to talk about the role of space and spatiality in your work. What role do…
Lynda Benglis
Alma Ruiz: I’d like to start our conversation with the present. I know that you’ve been working steadily since the…
Ana Prvacki: Wandering Band
Ana Prvacki’s practice corresponds to the late-capitalist service economy by mimicking its patterns of production, distribution and consumption, but with…
Nick van Woert
Julie Boukobza: Hey Nick, so how come you’ve never been to DIA:Beacon? Nick van Woert: There’s more to learn from…
Matthew Barney: Djed
The artworks featured in “Djed,” Matthew Barney’s most recent show at Gladstone, could easily be mistaken for archaeological finds. On…
On Underwear Makers and Popes with a Healthy Libido
Everybody loves a good story. And by “good story” I am talking about a piece of scandal that usually involves…