Slavs and Tatars NYUAD Art Gallery / Abu Dhabi
“Every joke is a tiny revolution,” wrote George Orwell, implying that funny means somehow upsetting the established order.
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Roger White’s The Contemporaries Bloomsbury / New York
Most books on the art world make it look like one big “Scene & Herd,” where artists, curators, collectors and…
Del Vaz Projects and Park View / Los Angeles
We all know. Los Angeles is blooming, looking more appealing every day. Museums are getting redesigned, local galleries are getting…
Heaven, Fortune and the West / The Dystopia
In his iconic “Hustlers” series (1993), Philip-Lorca DiCorcia photographed young men in West Hollywood waiting for their clients at dusk.…
Incidental Insurgents Office for Contemporary Art / Oslo
How is history written? Of what is it composed? Whose documents, journals and diaries are borrowed from when carving out…
Laurie Simmons Jewish Museum / New York
“I can see you with my eyes closed. Can you see me as clearly?” This seems to be the question…
No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989 David Zwirner Books
“At least until the beginning of this century, there were always special relationships between certain cities.”
Superscript Walker Art Center / Minneapolis
A number of very young women came up to me over the course of Superscript, the two-day conference on the…
Slip of the Tongue Punta della Dogana / Venice
“Privacy to me is mourning,” Danh Vo once observed in an interview¹, “mourning for the loss of it.” This dispirited…
Nordic Generation SIC Gallery / Helsinki
SIC Gallery is a space for contemporary art founded in Helsinki, Finland, in 2012, by artists Olli Keränen, Karri Kuoppala,…
B. Wurtz Kunstverein Freiburg
Found-object sculpture tends towards a materialism that highlights what objects bring with them when they come under the auspices of…
Peter Bläuer on LISTE 2015 / Basel
Exclusively dedicated to promoting young galleries, this year LISTE is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Director Peter Bläuer talks with Flash…
The Familiar Stranger / Tehran
“You came from a strange, unknown city; you came on a white horse of kindness,” sings the velvet voice of…
National Pavilions / 56th Venice Biennale
The state of the world is mapped out in every direction in Venice. The national pavilions that dot the perimeter…
Twenty-five Years and Counting Andrea Rosen / New York
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Andrea Rosen Gallery located in Chelsea, Flash Art talked with the gallerist…
There is a Light that Never Goes Out / Amman
Like many Palestinians, artist Emily Jacir has a conflicted relationship with the notion of “site.” Much of her practice examines…