Interview

"I'm a disciple of Nietzsche—I believe in a minimum of effort and a maximum of error," explains painter, poet, and Warhol underground film star/longtime lover Taylor Mead. "So I haven't bothered showing these paintings until now."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/12/12

Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher collaborate in their first show together at Martos Gallery in New York.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/12/12

As a warm-up for next summer's happening, overseen by artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, dOCUMENTA, together with publisher Hatje Cantz, has created a series of interdisciplinary notebooks, appropriately titled 100 Notes—100 Thoughts.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12

It’s hard to think of a young artist whose career has had an upward trajectory as steep as 31-year-old Frenchman Cyprien Gaillard. His early video works of quasi-socialist Western European housing tracts in ruins had all the lyricism of landscape painting and the biting youthful nihilism of street art.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12

While their name ruffles feathers, the two Americans who go by AIDS-3D—Daniel Keller, 25, and Nik Kosmas, 26—chalk up the moniker to an interest in looking at international catastrophes from a fresh, albeit twisted, perspective.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12

With figures gnawed and slashed, blurred and speckled, Adrian Ghenie’s paintings involve the big ideas that transform men into larger-than-life emblems. Ghenie’s recent exhibition at Haunch of Venison in London featured humans wildly distorted and many with monkey features.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12

Thirty-year-old Oliver Laric calls himself a “facilitator.” That’s a rather selfless designation to describe the poetry of someone who allows interactions with art to happen by surprise.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12

For a show at New York’s PS1, 34-year-old Canadian Jeremy Shaw turned a white-walled room into an immersive video experience that felt to some like being at a rave on drugs.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12

Of any artist working today, 35-year-old hyper-mixed-media artist Nina Beier is creating some of the boldest examples of the contemporary artwork in crisis mode. This has a lot to do with the unstable, in flux, usually-referencing-something-absent, often-crushed-or-pieced-together, and likely-to-change nature of her sculptural explorations.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12

Each time the artist Danh Vo sells a work through his gallery, the collector or institution is billed up to 100 euros, whereby they acquire a special handwritten letter. The project, 02.02.1861, [last letter of Saint Théophane Vénard to his father before he was decapitated] (2009– ), is a text in English translated to the French and copied out by Vo’s father, who speaks neither language.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/05/12