Emmet and Edith Gowin – A Conversation (2013)
Emmet and Edith Gowin, a Conversation. An interview with American photographer Emmet Gowin and his wife Edith for the exhibition “Emmet Gowin” Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, Spain.
Notes on Five Key Jean-Michel Basquiat Works
Untitled (Head), 1981 His paintings proclaimed the existence of a more basic truth locked within a given event or thought. The Defining Years: Notes on Five Key Works By Fred Hoffman The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic Just because the body is rotten— That is all fantasy. What is found now […]
INTERVIEW: Dan Solomon – “Witness” (2013)
WITNESS, an installation by Dan Solomon, In conjunction with ICP’s exhibit “JFK November 22: A Bystander’s View of History. Interview by Raphael Shammaa, November 2013 Shortly before 9:00 AM on November 23rd, as New Yorkers prepare to settle at their desks for the day, I meet with Dan Solomon for a tour of his photographic […]
WES LANG
Wes Lang’s (born 1972) works on paper are complicated arrangements of American iconography, expertly rendered in ink and paint in a dizzying mix of American history, biker culture, tattoo iconography, ornament, Native American art, pin-ups, newspaper headlines and Taoist texts. Wes Lang, PictureBox/Half Gallery, 2013 (All rights […]
What They Are – A Conversation With Wolfgang Tillmans (2001)
Blushes #28, 2000 “Ever since I started printing in 1990, I’ve been collecting things that went wrong in the darkroom.” By Nathan Kernan, from “What They Are” originally published in Art On Paper, May-Jun 2001 Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was born in 1968, in Remscheid, Germany, a small town not far from Dusseldorf. He moved to Hamburg after […]
Continuation Painting with Richard Prince (2013)
Richard Prince takes Vice on a tour of his country home to show us his latest work focusing on the “continuation” of previously done pictures and paintings.
ASX.TV: Peter Doig – “No Foreign Lands” (2013
Artist Peter Doig speaks about his work, as seen in the exhibition Peter Doig No Foreign Lands at the Scottish National Gallery from 3rd August to 3rd November 2013.
Larry Clark: “Perfect Childhoods (Excerpt)” (2005)
Clark’s aging sentient body, naked or otherwise, is central to his project to reclaim and live teenage life. By Sudhir Mahadevan, excerpt from Where the Boys are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (2005) Larry Clark has made three feature films that have been released commercially, Kids (1995), Another Day in Paradise (1998), and Bully (2001). […]
In the Studio with Matthew Brandt (2013)
A look inside the Hollywood studio of artist Matthew Brandt. Brandt discusses his project “Lakes & Reservoirs”, which is included in “Rogue Wave 2013” at L.A. Louver.
ASX.TV: Ren Hang – A Portrait (2013)
Ren Hang doesn’t have a lot to say about himself. In the fine art environment, where emphasizing one’s own importance (or having representation to do so, while you maintain the air of expensive mystery) is the norm, this resistance to pretense could be considered a form of madness. But this hasn’t stopped the twenty-seven-year-old photographer, […]
ASX Interviews Joachim Schmid
“There was a long struggle to establish photography as an art form and that struggle was won. The war is over, photography is acknowledged as an art form. The price the photography world paid for this victory was excluding everything that is not made by artists – ‘That’s actually not photography, that’s not art, it’s […]
Robert D’Allesandro: “Glory”
“‘Glory’, the title of D’Alessandro’s 1973 book of photographs, is as understated and as charged as his pictures, each of which includes an American flag. Still timely more than three decades later, twenty-five of those pointedly black and white images remind us that, where the stars and stripes are concerned, ambivalence, irreverence and […]