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The Anxious: Five Artists Under the Pressure of War' at the Centre Pompidou

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

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

Artists at Work: Haris Epaminonda

Sonia Campagnola

Haris Epaminonda in conversation with Sonia Campagnola

Published 07.10.08

James Coleman, Background, 1991–1994, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

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

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 Claussen

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

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 the ICA

'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: 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 Art

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

‘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

‘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

Artists at Work: Luis Jacob

Rosemary Heather

Artists at Work: Luis Jacob

Rosemary Heather

Luis Jacob in conversation with Rosemary Heather

Published 12.03.08

Le PingPong d’Amour: Collaborative Experiments in Materialising Idealism

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

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

‘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

'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

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

'Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists' at Hammer Museum

'Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists' at Hammer Museum

Christopher Bedford

Though Los Angeles is now considered a center for artistic production in the United States...

Published 23.08.07

Chen Xiaoyun at MC

Chen Xiaoyun at MC

Danielle Adair Correll

Chen Xiaoyun at MC

Danielle Adair Correll

In Chen Xiaoyun's first US solo show, 'Faint', the artist seems to ask us to...

Published 17.08.07

Artists at Work: Danh Vo

Artists at Work: Danh Vo

Adam Carr

Dahn Vo in conversation with Adam Carr

Published 09.08.07

'The 80s: A Topology' at Museu Serralves

'The 80s: A Topology' at Museu Serralves

Pedro de Llano

Eight years after it opened, Porto's Museu Serralves has organised an ambitious historical survey that...

Published 25.07.07

Robert Beavers at Tate Modern

Robert Beavers at Tate Modern

Melissa Gronlund

'I think of filmmaking like architecture,' Robert Beavers writes in the program notes for his...

Published 07.07.07

Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery

Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery

Christopher Bedford

Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery

Christopher Bedford

In her recent show at Angles Gallery (2006), Judy Fiskin showed a grainy, black and...

Published 08.06.07