Interview

With work from 1919 to the present day, this sprawling survey features imagined languages, personas, cities, and objects includes gems like the first edition of Kurt Schwitter's 1919 Dadaist poem Anna Blume, original prints from the mid-century, utopic-minded Italian architecture firm Superstudio, and Adam McEwen's darkly gorgeous, contemporary graphite impressions of wooden chipboard.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/18/12

The art world too global for you? Each week, Interview highlights in pictures the shows you'd want to see—if you could jetset from one international art hub to the next.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/13/12

"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

An anonymous man—or group—managed to hijack the airwaves of two different Chicago television stations and broadcast a makeshift version of the pre-CGITV personality and New Coke spokesperson Max Headroom (himself an image of a dystopian media-infiltrated future).  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