How High Can You Go?
Michele D’Aurizio: The current issue is published to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the release of Kanye West’s sixth…
Magazine Articles
Love at Work
The love between Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin that lies at the root of their work is reminiscent of…
Company of Man
Xu Zhen is a self-made artist, and he has gone to great lengths to muddle this fact. The recursive trajectory…
Public Fiction
Lauren Mackler is in a flurry of production. “Public Fiction (the museum of)” — her curating platform centered on literature,…
Yang Li
The most fascinating aspect of interviewing someone you’ve never met before is reconciling your expectations based on their work; the…
Bruno Brunnet
Donatien Grau: You opened your gallery in Berlin in 1992. Why Berlin? All the galleries were in Cologne at that…
Taking Part in the World
In the 7-channel video Cinema (2013) by Fang Lu, a woman walks into an apparently empty theatre, the stage area…
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…
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…