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Allen Ruppersberg at the Camden Arts Centre
Coline Milliard
Allen Ruppersberg at the Camden Arts Centre
Coline Milliard
'Art should be familiar and enigmatic, just as human beings themselves', wrote Allen Ruppersberg in...Published 02.12.08
documenta 12 at Kassel
Lisette Lagnado
documenta 12 at Kassel
Lisette Lagnado
Roger M. Buergel, artistic director of documenta 12, has done what no one else has...Published 27.11.08
Broken Americas: The Cool World and The Exiles
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Broken Americas: The Cool World and The Exiles
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Two recently resurrected films from the fringes of early 1960s American independent cinema put forth...Published 19.11.08
Rafani collective at the Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
Markéta Stará
Rafani collective at the Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
Markéta Stará
The Rafani collective is one of a handful of activist art groups in the Czech...Published 13.11.08
A Politics of Tears: The Museum of Useless Efforts,...
Mary Walling Blackburn
A Politics of Tears: The Museum of Useless Efforts, Marfa, TX
Mary Walling Blackburn
A multi-national art industry seems to have air-dropped its contemporary art institutions onto the vast...Published 05.11.08
‘Cold Cuts: John Knight' at Espai d’art contemporani de...
Pedro de Llano
‘Cold Cuts: John Knight' at Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló
Pedro de Llano
In Cold Cuts, the California Conceptualist John Knight addresses the history of illegal...Published 28.10.08
The Anxious: Five Artists Under the Pressure of War'...
Sarah-Neel Smith
The Anxious: Five Artists Under the Pressure of War' at the Centre Pompidou
Sarah-Neel Smith
In 1985 a Lebanese communist called Jamal Satti made three attempts to record a final...Published 21.10.08
Tony Conrad: On the Threshold
George Clark
Tony Conrad: On the Threshold
George Clark
On Saturday 14 June 2008, the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London was filled...Published 13.10.08
Artists at Work: Haris Epaminonda
Sonia Campagnola
Artists at Work: Haris Epaminonda
Sonia Campagnola
Haris Epaminonda in conversation with Sonia CampagnolaPublished 07.10.08
James Coleman, Background, 1991–1994, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Tim Stott
Although his influence cannot be overstated, with Doug Aitken, Douglas Gordon, and Steve McQueen amongst...Published 03.10.08
54th Oberhausen Short Film Festival
Melissa Gronlund
54th Oberhausen Short Film Festival
Melissa Gronlund
In Lis Rhodes's expanded cinema piece Light Music (1973) two beams of light,...Published 17.09.08
Theodor W. Adorno – One Last Genius, by Detlev...
Carl-Filip Brück
Theodor W. Adorno – One Last Genius, by Detlev Claussen
Carl-Filip Brück
Anyone who has heard the sound made by marmots is unlikely to forget it. To...Published 01.09.08
Undecidability as Resistance: The Potential Space of Suspension. Notes on Art Sheffield 08
Gil Leung
It is hard to define whether the photograph of Julius Koeller's action of demarcating a...Published 15.08.08
'Bill Burns: The Flora and Fauna Information Service' at...
Jennifer Gabrys
'Bill Burns: The Flora and Fauna Information Service' at the ICA
Jennifer Gabrys
Bill Burns's exhibition at the ICA put a full supply of nature rescue gear on...Published 09.08.08
'Lucy Skaer: The Siege' at the Chisenhale Gallery
Lucy Skaer's recent exhibition 'The Siege' (2008) at the Chisenhale Gallery in London presents a...Published 26.06.08
Whitney Biennial 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American...
Domenick Ammirati
Whitney Biennial 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Domenick Ammirati
The idea of 'taking the temperature' of the zeitgeist conjures images of rubber gloves and...Published 24.05.08
‘Chacun à son goût’ at Guggenheim Bilbao
Miren Jaio
‘Chacun à son goût’ at Guggenheim Bilbao
Miren Jaio
'¿Habéis cedido a vuestro deseo?' ('Have you given in to your desire?'). These words, printed...Published 09.05.08
‘Lethal Love’ at Cubitt Gallery
Andrew Bonacina
‘Lethal Love’ at Cubitt Gallery
Andrew Bonacina
For two weeks in June 2003 a large-scale sculpture appeared without ceremony in Paris's Quartier...Published 15.04.08
Artists at Work: Luis Jacob
Rosemary Heather
Artists at Work: Luis Jacob
Rosemary Heather
Luis Jacob in conversation with Rosemary HeatherPublished 12.03.08
Le PingPong d’Amour: Collaborative Experiments in Materialising Idealism
Gil Leung
Collaboration is often seen as a critical platform for art practice. Its communal mode of...Published 04.03.08
Lloyd Hamrol Remembers CalArts
Audrey Chan
Lloyd Hamrol Remembers CalArts
Audrey Chan
Artist Lloyd Hamrol looks back on CalArts during the 1970s; as told to Audrey Chan...Published 14.02.08
‘Aernout Mik: Shifting Shifting’ at Camden Arts Centre
Steve Adam Chodzko, Aernout Mik: Camden Arts Centre, File Note #18 Shifting Shifting , London: Camden Arts Centre, 2007. Klee
‘Aernout Mik: Shifting Shifting’ at Camden Arts Centre
Steve Adam Chodzko, Aernout Mik: Camden Arts Centre, File Note #18 Shifting Shifting , London: Camden Arts Centre, 2007. Klee
Steve Klee discusses the 'strange state' of Aernout Mik's videos in relation to the earlier...Published 05.02.08
'Keith Edmier 1991–2007' at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College
Lyra Kilston
'I confess I do not believe in time,' wrote Nabokov in his autobiography Speak,...Published 17.01.08
Stephen G. Rhodes at Overduin and Kite
Aram Moshayedi
Stephen G. Rhodes at Overduin and Kite
Aram Moshayedi
Writing in 1975 as he toured the United States in search of cultural authenticity, Umberto...Published 30.10.07
