Deborah Kass: Teenage Dream
“Regarding Glee I would say two things: 1. It’s not like my work. It is my work; and 2. I…
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The Great Stink
I got COVID this autumn, not after taking fourteen flights over the course of the summer working on various projects…
Supple Involution: Justin Fitzpatrick
From the gnarled trachea, baroque ironwork turns capillaceous, inscribing a flat duo-headed torso in liquid iron Rorschach that curls over…
A Quiet Antagonism: Artists, Galleries, and the ’Gram
An alarm is sounding in the art world, and it’s become increasingly deafening. The wails of this siren are not…
Smells Like Burning
By the end of last year, ecosystems around the world were on fire, and so were many of the old-growth…
Artificial Abstraction and the Poetics of Machine Learning: The Role of AI in the Art of Anna Ridler and Roman Lipski
A new generation of artists are working with machine learning as an integral part of their practice. At a time…
A Resurgence of the Spiritual in Art
Over the last several decades, spiritual themes seem to have been largely missing from contemporary art, replaced by the conceptual,…
Huma Bhabha’s figures
This conversation revolves around The Company, Huma Bhaba’s (Karachi, 1962, live and works in U.S.) first exhibition at Gagosian gallery…
Feasts of excess: Zoe Williams
In her 1992 novel The Secret History, author Donna Tartt details the story of a group of youths studying the classics…
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…