Yearly Archives: 2014

This month in Artforum: “Event Scores”: In his final interview, multidisciplinary artist Terry Adkins, who passed away unexpectedly as our March issue went to press, talked with composer and computer-music pioneer George Lewis about performance, improvisation, history, race, and sensation: “The Mars rover is my model of what I want […]

Featured in issue 19 –Writings by artists: Hiroshi Sugimoto; Thomas Hirschhorn; Ed Atkins –“New Ghost Stories,” a dossier by Georges Didi-Huberman and Arno Gisinger –A “Little Illustrated Dictionary of the Fall” edited by Marie de Brugerolle and Gérard Wajcman –Hiroshi Sugimoto by the art critic Minoru Shimizu –A conversation with […]

Cabinet magazine presents “Laughing to Enlightenment,” an experiential symposium on Williams James’s investigation of Hegelian philosophy under the influence of laughing gas. Saturday, 8 March 2014, 9pm. What’s mistake but a kind of take? What’s nausea but a kind of -usea? Sober, drunk, -unk, astonishment. Everything can become the subject […]

Green Art Gallery & Anomie Publishing are pleased to announce the launch of a new publication on the work of Iranian-born Brooklyn-based artist Kamrooz Aram entitled Palimpsest: Unstable Paintings for Anxious Interiors. Published on the occasion of Aram’s solo exhibition at Green Art Gallery, opening 17 March, the fully illustrated […]

For the 17th issue of Manifesta Journal, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (MJ Chief Editor) and Virginie Bobin (MJ Associate Editor) are joined by Bisi Silva as MJ#17 Guest Editor. Bisi Silva is an independent curator and the founder/director of Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos). She co-curated The Progress of Love, […]

Issue 161 of frieze looks at Big Data: how do state surveillance and quantification culture affect our behaviour and artistic production? Co-editor Jörg Heiser leads a survey in which seven artists, writers and academics reflect on this question. With contributions from Mercedes Bunz, Jordan Ellenberg, Sarah Hromack, Trevor Paglen, Laura […]

The new Parkett 93 features collaborations with Valentin Carron, Frances Stark, Adrián Villar Rojas, and Danh Vo. Valentin Carron finds inspiration in neglected public art, commonplace architectural adornments, and broken-down motorbikes. In this issue, Lionel Bovier, David Breslin, and Giovanni Carmine provide a closer look at his sculptures. For his […]

This month in Artforum: Mario Carpo on big data and digital design: “In hindsight, the curving forms of the first digital age appear more and more as a transitional style. Today’s data-driven computation is alien to that modern logic.”—Mario Carpo Manthia Diawara on the art of Kader Attia: “Attia’s practice […]

Highlights include Michael Bracewell‘s three-part homage to Richard Hamilton, an insightful interview with Richard Deacon, Nicholas Cullinan‘s introduction to Tate Modern’s upcoming Henri Matisse exhibition, Brian Dillon on Ruin Lust, Michael Bird on Lynn Chadwick, Patrick Keiller on D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson‘s influential On Growth and Form, Bice Curiger on Urs […]

–Christopher Turner in conversation with Simon Schaffer on the absolutist promise of perpetual motion –Suzanne Karr Schmidt on volvelles, the paper wheels used in early modern computation –D. Graham Burnett on hubcap “spinners” and the automotive unleashing of blur –Jeff Dolven in conversation with John V. Fleming on wheels of […]