Essay

Essay - 14 Nov 2012

Jessica Warboys works with film, painting, sculpture and stained glass. But her primary medium may be our ability to recognize resemblances.

Corita Kent, daisy, 1966, 72 × 89 cm (Courtesy: Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles)

Features - 05 Nov 2012

Against Interpretations

How does Édouard Glissant’s demand for opacity translate into art?

By Jan Verwoert

Essay - 22 Oct 2012

Phil Collins: The Disconcerting Eye

Phil Collins embraces mass media and popular culture, only to unsettle the stereotypes they produce.

Frank Stella, Diavolozoppo (#2, 4X), 1984 (Courtesy: Photo Art Resource/Scala, Florence)

Features - 18 Aug 2012

Painting Space

Is the space of painting made by abstraction, illusion or the sculptural qualities of the canvas?

Essay - 31 May 2012

Dear Claes

A letter to Claes Oldenberg by co-editor Dan Fox

Christopher Chiappa, Speed Stick, 2006–8

Features - 30 May 2012

Pure Products Go Crazy

The growing social bond between consumers and corporations has changed the way artists are working with commodities

By Pablo Larios

DJ Mediafire, Manual for the Earth Awakening, 2012

Features - 29 May 2012

Ambient Natures

The resurgence of nature motifs is part of a shift from Pop cultural references to pure atmospheres

By Dominikus Müller

Installationsansicht der Messekoje von David Zwirner, The Armory Show, New York, 2012

Features - 27 May 2012

Digital Dandy

Michael Riedel records, copies and repeats whatever he can get his hands on and combines the material to create austere and ironic works

By Luca Cerizza

Jürgen Klauke, aus der Serie „Philosophie der Sinnlosigkeit“, 1976 (Courtesy: Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin & der Künstler; Fotografie: Ruprecht Stempell)

Features - 27 Feb 2012

Tip of the Tongue

Since English has become the lingua franca, what has happened to art – and to language?

By Vincenzo Latronico

Hervé Guibert, Michel, 1981 (Courtesy: der Künstler & Christine Guibert)

Features - 11 Nov 2011

The Ends of Photography

The end of film photography and the rise of digital photography have led to new genres, methods and histories.An overview of a dying and a thriving medium

By Jennifer Allen

_AIZ_-Titelblatt (Nr. 31), Collage: John Heartfield, 1933 (Courtesy: Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, The Heartfield Community of Heirs, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011)

Features - 11 Nov 2011

Archive in Motion

What happens to old photojournalism archives? The case of the Black Star archive reveals surprising connections to Germany and histories which forsee the future

By Hito Steyerl

Taryn Simon, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (Ein für tot erklärter Lebender und andere Kapitel), 2008–11, Auszug aus Kapitel XI (Courtesy: Gagosian Gallery & die Künstlerin)

Features - 11 Nov 2011

Photography and the Law

Five groundbreaking cases of photography in litigation