The Encyclopedic Palace
May 27, 2013: On the train from Rome to Venice, I kill time studying other passengers’ features and behaviors, trying…
Magazine Articles
Shit, How Are You Going to Do This One?
Udo Kittelmann: What are your most important influences? Rudolf Stingel: *1 Massimiliano Gioni: You often spoke about an exhibition by…
Against the Archive
In a recent two-person exhibition with Douglas Gordon, Miroslaw Balka showed, among other works, Four Something.1 This single text work…
What Are You Thinking About?
With arresting simplicity, the works of Ron Mueck depict figures, feelings and innate sensations that for generations and centuries have…
Learning How to Live
Fırat Arapoglu: One of the primary themes in your work is a sharp focus on the details of the individual at…
The First Time
In 2006, on the very day that Sophie Calle received the call from Robert Storr inviting her to participate in…
Measuring Our Own Memory
Marisa Merz has a unique place in the history of Italian art. With her appearance of absence, her visionary distraction,…
It Takes a Lot to Do a Little
Fernanda Gomes travels very lightly. She has her luggage down to one or two small bags for some technological essentials…
Working to Work
Beatrix Ruf: 2012 was a very active year for you. Let’s start with the last month of 2012 in which…
Illuminations
The British-born, New York–based artist and White Columns director Matthew Higgs has come to Los Angeles with an enlightening new…
Paul McCarthy
LA artist Paul McCarthy took over Manhattan this summer with three simultaneous exhibitions traversing the island. Though separate, each project…
Maureen Paley
Donatien Grau: You are a very specific character, being a gallerist, having trained as an artist, and also being a part-time…
Lasting Pictures
“Pictures,” the title of Douglas Crimp’s seminal 1977 group exhibition at Artists Space in New York, is outwardly unremarkable, even…
Collective Acts
in the Aftermath
Legendary postwar artists in Japan have seen a recent resurgence of attention. Last year, the exhibition “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New…
Memo for the Music
As a child, one of my toys was a tape recorder. After my father had bought and grown tired of…
Monir is Always the Answer
Maurizio Bortolotti: I’d like to start from your position as an artist and woman in Iran. You have been through many…