Ask Marina
For the first time in her Artist’s Page column, Marina Abramović answers a question sent from a reader. We encourage…
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The Rich Get Richer and…
The US economy accumulates ever more debt, the unemployment rate and housing crisis have not improved, and the eurozone is…
Yvonne Rainer: Poems
Yvonne Rainer might be the iconoclast of the moment. A cofounder of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, she has…
Future Plan and Program
Wendy Vogel: Future Plan & Program publishes books by visual artists. The project was incubated during your co-residency at Project…
Piotr Uklański: Early Works
For those who have read Sigmund Freud’s essay on da Vinci’s childhood memory, Early Works becomes an intriguing sequel. But…
Shirin Neshat and Wangechi Mutu
RoseLee Goldberg: Shirin, it would be really interesting if we could begin with a comment from you about moving across…
Nathalie du Pasquier
Molto grigio con blu is one of a series of paintings done between 2001 and 2003 that mainly depicts glass…
Painting It, Touching It
The paintings of Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, US; lives in New York), Van Hanos (b. 1979, US; lives in New…
Wang Xingwei
One day in 2009 Wang Xingwei (b. 1969, China; lives in Beijing) was leaving the pigment shop at the gate…
Blinds and Mirrors
Manifold intentions define portraiture in painting today: to interrogate the portrait’s capacity to frame the dynamics of identity construction and…
Lisa Ruyter
The paintings of Lisa Ruyter (b. 1968, USA; lives in New York) are often described as the collision of Pop…
Double Ancient
Two recent exhibitions have invited a reconsideration of the institutional narratives associated with the scientific discipline of archaeology: Christodoulos Panayiotou’s…
It Looked Like a Universe
It’s easy to feel lost while watching one of Rachel Rose’s videos. Rather than mere confusion, this sense of disorientation…
Self-Portrait and Self
Frances Stark (b. 1967, US; lives in Los Angeles) is constantly introducing herself. “Okay, now I guess I should say…
Specters of the Avant-Garde
One day, guided by a false sense of originality, someone will write the history of the avant-garde as a long…
A Tear in the Fabric of Reality
Connecting and collating people, things and information in a practice that often extends beyond the creation of discreet art objects,…