Liquid Hells
German artist Anne Imhof recently staged a series of performances entitled School of the Seven Bells (SOTSB) at Portikus in…
Magazine Articles
Once We Were Human
There are no words on Xen. Occasionally, there’s an utterance, a fractured kind of cocky holler in its title track,…
Communication is the Enemy
Maurizio Cattelan: Are you comfortable making videos that are pretty borderline, morally? Neïl Beloufa: I create representations of the world,…
A Salon History of Appropriation
From Flash Art International no. 143, 1988 Leo Castelli: Let’s pinpoint not my vague awareness of your existence or the…
The Awakening of the Individual
He Jing: Let’s set aside for now the question of whether your works are “abstract.” Something people find interesting in…
Bunny Rogers
In 2009, Brigid Mason produced a painting titled Saudades (Our Chair is the Same). The painting depicts two wooden chairs,…
The Haas Brothers
Daniele Balice: I have to admit that, at first, your Sex Room at Design Miami in Basel left me speechless…
Lisa Spellman
Donatien Grau: You show painters, though for a long time you worked a lot with photographers. Have you come to…
Pictures, Before and After
When a symposium on the work of Douglas Crimp was announced, of course I wanted to go, very much so.…
Allan Sekula
& Bruno Serralongue
Documentary photography and video have played a significant role in the evolution of global contemporary art, opening a new dimension…
Nate Lowman
In 1994, retired football star O.J. Simpson lead police on a car chase through Los Angeles in a white Ford…
Paul Branca
Many contemporary painters work in a conceptualist vein, building a practice around modular motifs. Paul Branca is no exception. But…
Melodie Mousset
Patrick Steffen: There’s always a giant leap between your last work and the next one. Melodie Mousset: I am not preaching…
Mladen Stilinovič
When I started making artworks about work, like Work is Disease (Karl Marx) (1981), in Yugoslavia it was interpreted in…
Johanna Billing
Melissa Gronlund: Your films and events bring up a number of questions concerning authorship, the particularity of media and public sociality,…
Rodney Graham
Matthew Shields: As an autodidact, you join a long and storied lineage that includes Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville,…