Philipp Timischl
As the opening sequence of Gossip Girl plays on repeat on a forty-inch flat-screen TV, the voice of the series’…
Magazine Articles
Hood By Air
The latest menswear collection shows in Paris were as bizarre as a fun festival: several luxury groups invested vast amounts…
Jeffrey Deitch
Donatien Grau: How did Deitch Projects come about? Jeffrey Deitch: I begin my book on Deitch Projects with the line,…
Speculations on Anonymous Materials
Much has already been written and said about the exhibition “Speculations on Anonymous Materials,” which opened in the fall at…
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…
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…