Feasts of excess: Zoe Williams
In her 1992 novelThe Secret History, author Donna Tartt details the story of a group of youths studying the classics…
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A Telephone and a Maze: Peter Halley's Alchemical Abstractions
In the beginning there was a telephone. And this telephone was ringing. And no one was answering. As there was…
Hands over Milan. Nanni Balestrini, Ugo La Pietra, Giorgio Armani
Lodovico Pignatti Morano in conversation with Nanni Balestrini Lodovico Pignatti Morano: I’d like to focus in this interview on the…
A Telephone and a Maze: Peter Halley's Alchemical Abstractions
In the beginning there was a telephone. And this telephone was ringing. And no one was answering. As there was…
The “Homespun Spinelessness Cult” of nabbteeri
The task of representing Finland, Norway, and Sweden — or the Nordic countries — at the 58th International Art Exhibition…
Sensible Ecstasy in the works of Mandy El-Sayegh
Mandy El-Sayegh’s research addresses some of the most burning questions that women (artists) have dealt with for decades: How does…
Long Slow Accelerations
In 2013, a mostly full audience at the Hammer Museum watched ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion), David Wojnarowicz’s…
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions Getty Research Institute / Los Angeles
It was only a matter of time until we got our Harald Szeemann show. In 2011 the Getty Research Institute…
Oliver Laric Metro Pictures / New York
It’s nice to think that Oliver Laric wasn’t behind any of the art in his solo exhibition “Year of the…
Miranda July on Somebody new App
Carolina Cavalli: Is the gap between the emotion of the sender and the action of the deliverer of particular value?…
Judith Bernstein on Art, Politics, and the Birth of the Universe
Emi Fontana: When did you know that you wanted to be an artist? What or who inspired you then? Who…
Interview with Francesca di Mattio
Francesca Di Mattio has been showing new ceramic works beside her paintings in a display titled ‘Vertical Arrangements’ in London…
Interview with Danh Vo
Timothée Chaillou: For your show “Where the Lions Are” at the Kunsthalle Basel in 2009, you were inspired by “the…
Judith Bernstein The Box Gallery / Los Angeles
Based in New York City for over forty years, Judith Bernstein is a trailblazing artist whose impact on postwar American…
Robert Indiana
The following is an excerpt from the catalog Robert Indiana: Monumental Woods, published on the occasion of the opening of…
Cricoteka and the Uncanny Return of the Avant-Garde Corpse
As the famous line from Citizen Kane goes, “Memory is one of the greatest curses inflicted on the human race.”…