Cults, Choreography and the Eschatology of Maizidian
It’s hard to miss Chen Tianzhuo when you meet him for the first time; whereas most artists in Beijing dress…
Magazine Articles
dOCUMENTA (13)
Due to its spread-out character, with a disproportionate number of artists dispersed over twenty venues and a multitude of topics,…
Kenzo
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim are taking over Paris: freshly appointed as creative directors of Kenzo, the two New York–based…
On Art and Revolutions,
or a Facebook Ranting
of Yours Sincerely
This is an excerpt from my Facebook wall, prompted by a statement I made regarding my visit to dOCUMENTA (13)…
Joseph Beuys
I have come to the conclusion that there is no other possibility to do something for man other than through…
The Rise of Turkey
Flash Art invites a selection of some of the most dynamic Turkish galleries, institutions, curators, collectors and artists to give…
Liz Magic Laser
Patrick Steffen: You sometimes recast existing plays or re-enact existing dialogues or scenes. Should I understand from this that reality…
Korean Eye
Ahead of an exhibition lie the immeasurable expectations of its audience; behind it, the concealed circumstances of its preparation. Between…
Richard Serra
When art historian Rosalind Krauss wrote about Richard Serra’s work in 1977, she described the artist’s unrelenting and vigorously exploratory…
Sadie Coles
Donatien Grau: You started working as a gallery director for Anthony d’Offay. Sadie Coles: First I had a museum job.…
Hands over Milan. Nanni Balestrini, Ugo La Pietra, Giorgio Armani
Lodovico Pignatti Morano in conversation with Nanni Balestrini Lodovico Pignatti Morano: I’d like to focus in this interview on the…
The Impalpable Citadel
Claudio Parmiggiani was born in Luzzara (Italy) in 1943. Those wishing to know where he comes from need only turn…
Will Genius Be the New
(insert name of massive internet corporation here)?
If things work out Genius’s way, in a (hopefully short, they say) while we’ll forget all about Genius. Because it…
Charles Gaines. Problems of Representation
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!
Caring, Caring
The video starts off simply enough: teen or pre-teen skaters of modest ability fly through a sunny, suburban context. They…
From A to Wong
and Back Again
Evoking the memory of the late artist and designer Donald Tobias Wong (1974–2010) sometimes feels like bringing back to life…