The First Time
In 2006, on the very day that Sophie Calle received the call from Robert Storr inviting her to participate in…
Magazine Articles
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…
Ancestral Figures Revisited
Rajesh Punj: Your performative work seems to directly engage the viewer and draw them out of their comfort zone. Are…
A Restless Subject
The room was found empty, without a stick of furniture. The pictures on the walls had been taken down, leaving…
Pulsing from the Bottom Up
Gianni Jetzer: You got involved with performance in the early ’70s when it was low on the totem pole of…
The Future is an Empty Space
Attempting a concise survey of the work of David Maljković seems an elusive goal. Within Maljković ’s output over the last…
An Intimately, Duplicitously Reflexive Experience
Klaus Biesenbach: What is your working process? Do you start with text and then the image comes? Or do you have…