Artificial Centuries: Hate and the City in Gary Indiana’s Criticism
Originally published in Flash Art International n. 324, February–March 2019 The shuttering of the Village Voice in August was met…
Eli Diner
Radical Futures: A Conversation with Josh Kline
This conversation took place in May 2020. The text was originally published in Flash Art no 349 Estate 2020 –…
Larry Johnson & Asha Schechter Jenny's / LA
Maybe it’s the ebbtide of articles taking stock of the decade—the best-ofs, the what-did-it-all-means, the where-were-you-whens of last month—which makes…
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water / 15th Biennale de Lyon
It is, no doubt, a measure of biennial oversaturation that one can be deemed a success by what it hasn’t…
If the Snake / Okayama Art Summit
The title of the second Okayama Art Summit is a half-formulated hypothesis: “If the Snake.” I guess we’ll never know.…
The Art Of Warez
Game State is a column by artist Oliver Payne covering the mechanics, aesthetics and ideas of video games. In this…
Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality Cranbrook Museum / Detroit
“Landlord Colors” stages a comparative history of the art of sociopolitical upheaval, bringing together work from five far-flung locales during…
Sanya Kantarovsky Luhring Augustine / New York
Scenes of misery and melancholy, deadpan grotesqueries, and a small Ensorian carnival — and I keep coming back to the…
Mark Rodriguez Park View; Paul Soto / Los Angeles
It seems appropriate that Mark A. Rodriguez’s new show should be not altogether new. I know I’ve seen those flowers…
The Mask and the Motor
Around 1968 Raul Guerrero purchased a Yaqui ceremonial mask from a dealer in indigenous artifacts (and purported warlock) working out…
Inside Joke
The second chapter of Gargantua consists of fourteen stanzas of nonsense verse, a slapstick parody of Roman mythology and history…
Positively Not
Eric Troncy’s text “Being Positive in the Secret of the 90s,” which appeared in Flash Art in 1992, focuses on…
Computer Visions
In both popular and art news media, stories of developments in the realm of art and artificial intelligence are typically…
Productive Contradictions
“Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes…