Chris Burden
It’s time to think about Chris Burden. That’s right, the artist who in the ’70s garnered attention for such performances…
Magazine Articles
Remembering Agnes Varda • Surprising Impressions
Patrick Steffen: I’ve wanted to organize this conversation since 2011, when Rita Gonzalez curated the show “Asco: Elite of the…
Fetish Eyeballs
Amy Yao’s little beauties, shiny, glassy, delicate life-size fetishes, seem to play on our lost innocence. They are remnants of…
Five Questions about Los Angeles
1. After James Ellroy and Bret Easton Ellis, who do you think should write a contemporary novel on La La Land?…
3 x Sterling Ruby
Madness and Reason in the Minimum Security Studio by Gea Politi Visiting Sterling Ruby’s studio in Vernon, California, you are…
Sound and Vision
Every Rough Edge is Gone
Joel Kyack: The red light is on. Laura Owens: Do you think we can just ask each other questions? JK:…
Matt Paweski
Matt Paweski makes domestically scaled works. The works are modest accumulations of basic wood- and metal-shop techniques — the methods…
Shaun Caley Regen
Donatien Grau: Was your first encounter with art or with artists? Shaun Caley Regen: Probably artists of some kind, whether…
Robert Heinecken
Robert Heinecken liked to describe himself not as an artist or a photographer but as a “paraphotographer.” He explained that…
Corporate Sponsorship around Global Art
Twenty-five years ago the exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” heralded the emergence of an art-world discourse around globalization. There had…
Networks of Influence
“We are really walking a fine line — in fact, our line might be so fine that we might be…
Peter Schuyff
From Flash Art International no. 123,1985 Michael Kohn: How about starting with a serious question: Your work has been called…
Everyday Instability. On the notion of the personal within Lutz Bacher’s curiously-received art
Imagine walking into a gallery and seeing a skewed flat screen on the floor, its surface illuminated by a video…
How Do You Share Your Life with Someone?
In the not too distant future you will be alone. Everything will be fine. You will have many comforts. Your…
The Way You Always Wanted to See’em
Rafael De Cárdenas: Are you familiar with the hashtag phenomenon? Peter Halley: Are you talking about Twitter? RDC: Can you think of…