This is Cannibal Island Now
Lodovico Pignatti Morano: In your piece on William S. Burroughs recently published in the London Review of Books you wrote: “Burroughs…
Magazine Articles
Examining the Current State
of Art Education
In anticipation of the coming academic year, Flash Art examines the current state of art education. We asked the directors,…
Finding Things Out
Darren Flook: What links dysfunctional aircraft windows, casino carpets and the railings of London, other than their being part of your…
An Ecstatic Unity
“Grande dame,” “sex,” “Dieter Roth,” “femininity,” “proximity,” “censored,” “folkloric”: these are but a handful of platitudinous words that often describe…
Basim Magdy
Recent works by Egyptian artist Basim Magdy (b. 1977), his films in particular, put me in the mind of Zaat…
Paula Cooper
Donatien Grau: Who were the first artists you met? Paula Cooper: The question should be, rather: What was the art…
Ettore Spalletti
In May of 2014 I traveled to Naples, Rome and Turin with the purpose of visiting Ettore Spalletti’s three-part retrospective…
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Washing Machine
Maurizio Cattelan: If you were one of your works, you would be… Francesco Vezzoli: If I were one of my…
Richard Hamilton
The first rooms at the Tate Modern demonstrate Hamilton’s intellectual curiosity and fascination with mass and commodity culture, as represented…
Eye Contact
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 296 May-June 2014 In a recent interview Jordan Wolfson traced a cycle of…
The Ephemeral Experiences
Balthazar Lovay: I would like to start with what could be a silly question: Why sound? What does this medium…
For Sigmar Polke
Tourist by Dave Miko In the past let’s tear this magazine up and go eat lunch. We’ll photograph some tourists…
Empathetic Violence
Michele D’Aurizio: Are your artworks dead or alive? David Douard: They are not dead or alive, but perhaps stillborn. MDA:…
Christian Boltanski
Originally published in Flash Art no. 278 May–June 2011. Chiara Bertola: I would like to approach your work through a…
The Art of Curating. A constellation of artist-curated exhibitions
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 271 March – April 2010. I keep telling myself, in fact, that the entirety…