The British artist John Akomfrah opened his show “Signs of Empire” at the New Museum on June 20th, 2018. Here, Akomfrah discusses cinema and his history with film as a medium.

The British artist John Akomfrah opened his show “Signs of Empire” at the New Museum on June 20th, 2018. Here, Akomfrah discusses migration.

Viva Ruiz discusses her ongoing project, Thank God for Abortion (2015), which includes a parade float featured in the New York City Pride Parade on June 24, 2018.

Aliza Shvarts talks about her work in an excerpt from this interview. Her solo exhibition, “Off Scene,” presents works from the past ten years and is on view at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut, through June 30, 2018.

Lynda Benglis talks about her art and the importance of nature in her work in an excerpt from this interview. An exhibition of Benglis’s works dating from 1979 to 2017 is currently on view at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York until June 16, 2018.

Bridget Donahue, Erin Somerville, Bridget Finn, and Colleen Grennan discuss their project space, Cleopatra’s , which closed in May 2018, after a successful ten-year run in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York.

For more, check out an interview with Hall, here. Hall's exhibition “The Number of Inches Between Them” is on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through May 20, 2018.

The artist Nan Goldin talks about her recent addiction to OxyContin and her recovery process, as well as her activist group P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), which seeks to hold the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma accountable for the ongoing opioid epidemic.

Nan Goldin contributed to the January 2018 issue of Artforum with an essay and a collection of photographs detailing her addiction, which can be found here.

For more information on P.A.I.N.:
Instagram and Twitter: @sacklerpain
Email: painsackler@gmail.com
Hashtag: #ShameOnSackler

Elaine Reichek discusses her upbringing, her art, and her engagement with ancient Greek myths. Her exhibition, “Now If I Had Been Writing This Story,” is on view at the Secession in Vienna from April 13 to June 3, 2018. To read more from this interview, click here.

Hương Ngô and Hồng-Ân Trương discuss their collaborative ethos and history, as well as their ongoing project AND AND AND Stammering: An Interview, 2010–. Their work The Opposite of Looking is Not Invisibility. The Opposite of Yellow is Not Gold, 2016, is featured in “Being: New Photography 2018” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from March 18 to August 19, 2018. To read more, click here.

The trailer for Wong Ping’s Fables 1 (2018), which premiered at the New Museum in 2018.

A 2-minute excerpt from Liza Béar and Keith Sonnier’s Phase II, Send/Receive Satellite Network (1977).

Petra Cortright’s yellow_rose (2016), from her show “CAM WORLS” at UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles, 2018.

Catherine Christer Hennix’s Three Monochromatisms (Composition for Computer), 2017, a musical composition designed for Lucio Fontana’s exhibition “Ambients/Environments” at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.

Antonio Serna, 280Ma: Marfa • World Trade Center • Jebel Irhoud (2018).

Ann Carlson’s Doggie Hamlet (2017).

Bookforum presents “False Starts,” a Valentine’s Day reading featuring William Finnegan, Marlon James, Ed Park, Lynne Tillman, and Joy Williams, at the New Museum in New York.

Bookforum presents “Trial & Error,” featuring readings by Mary Gaitskill, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Marx, A. O. Scott, and Christopher Sorrentino, at the New Museum, New York, on February 12, 2016.

Bookforum presents “The Night We Called It a Day,” readings by David Byrne, Rivka Galchen, Ed Park, Zadie Smith, and Colm Tóibín, held at the New Museum, New York, on February 12, 2014.

A clip of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's 2015 piece Work/Travail/Arbeid performed in the Marron Atrium at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on March 28, 2017.

A collaboration between dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz and ninety other dancers and choreographers, If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse? transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for two days in May, 2015 as part of BMW Tate Live series of events.

Yvonne Rainer presented the East Coast premiere of her ongoing work-in-progress The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there's nothing left to move? at MoMA in June 2015.

A conversation with Douglas Crimp follows this performance.

Leonid Yakobson coaching Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1969 for Vestris.

A walkthrough of “Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts,” a retrospective exhibition of Nauman’s works at Schaulager Basel. The show runs from March 17 – August 26, 2018.

Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton discusses his first U.S. Survey, which is comprised of his works from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition is on view at the FLAG Art Foundation from September 23–December 16, 2017.

Promo for Maya Dunietz’s “Sound Requires a Medium,” her first solo, large-scale, site-specific, sound art exhibition, which opened at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv in January 2016.

Andrei Koschmieder’s opening reception at Foxy Production gallery in New York, 2011. To read Jeff Nagy on the art of Andrei Koschmieder in our October 2015 print issue, click here.

An excerpt from Thomas Riedelsheimer’s Leaning Into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy (2017), a film about Goldsworthy’s life and art. This film will be released in theaters on March 9, 2018. For more, see the film’s website.

Dick Rickard’s Ferdinand the Bull (1938).

Denis Lavant’s final dance in Claire Denis’s Beau Travail (1999), to Corona’s “Rhythm of the Night” (1993).

Netflix ad forUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Nine Inch Nails performs “She’s Gone Away” on episode eight of Twin Peaks: The Return.

The final scene from the episode twenty-two of season two of Twin Peaks (1991).

Adam Curtis's HyperNormalisation (2016).

Adam Curtis's 2002 documentary The Century of the Self.

Alex Prager’s short film La Grande Sortie (2016). The work was commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet and scored by Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich. Prager’s film accompanies production stills in “La Grande Sortie”, opening at Lehmann Maupin on September 7, 2016.

An excerpt from Pere Portabella’s Nocturno 29 (1968). To read Erika Balsom’s Film piece on the cinema of Pere Portabella, pick up the September 2016 issue of Artforum, or read it online at Artforum.com here.

John Akomfrah speaks with writer Ekow Eshun at Lisson Gallery about his recent work dealing with themes of migration, history, and memory on the occasion of his debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery, January 22 – March 12, 2016.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “The Artist Project,” a video series in which artists respond to the Met’s collection of art. Here, Nan Goldin talks about the work of Julia Margaret Cameron.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents “The Artist Project,” a video series in which artists respond to the Met’s collection of art. Here, Carolee Schneemann talks about Cycladic female figures.

George Pitts interviews curator Kathy Grayson at The Hole in New York, where she talks about her history and ideas behind curating as a way of nurturing the creation of art.

Artist Tony Oursler talks with Louisiana Channel about collaborating with David Bowie on the music video for “Where Are We Now” (2013). To read Tony Oursler’s piece on the late David Bowie, pick up the March 2016 issue of Artforum, or click here.

Interview with Shigeko Kubota at her studio from 2014. To read Caroline A. Jones’s Passages piece on Shigeko Kubota (1937–2015), click here.

A half-day conference on the occasion of the opening of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery exhibition Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient. The event convenes architects, artists, historians and writers to offer fresh interpretations of Arakawa and Gins’ work and theories in the context of contemporary practices and scholarship.

This panel features Miwako Tezuka, Consulting Curator at Reversible Destiny Foundation/Estate of Madeline Gins, Momoyo Homma, Director of Arakawa + Gins Tokyo Office (Coordinologist, Inc.), and is moderated by Julian Rose, Co-Founder, formlessfinder, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia GSAPP.

Judith Butler, “Shadows of the Absent,” a lecture at the Harvard Art Museums on grief in the context of Doris Salcedo’s work. This lecture is part of the program “Topography of Loss: A Symposium on Doris Salcedo” at the Harvard Art Museums, March 2-3, 2017. 

Zachary Cahill, curator of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, talks with critics Jan Verwoert, Jörg Heiser, and musicians Ian F. Svenonius and Nadya Tolokonnikova about lyricism and the metrics of language in their practices.

Part of Expo Chicago’s “/Dialogues” series at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, September 16, 2017.

Baltimore Museum of Art curators Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel talk with Dia Art Foundation curator Courtney J. Martin about the title of the exhibition “Solidary and Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection” at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, September 30, 2017.

Baltimore Museum of Art curators Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel talk with Dia Art Foundation curator Courtney J. Martin about “Solidary and Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection” at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, September 30, 2017.

Artist Zachary Cahill speaks with critic Jan Verwoert about Cahill’s exhibition “USSA Love Chapel” at Regina Rex Gallery, May 21–June 25, 2017.

Actress Fiona Shaw and philosopher Simon Critchley discuss the tragedy of Medea in this walk through of “A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700BC–200AD,” on view at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York until June 24, 2017.

Philosopher Simon Critchley speaks about collaborative relationships at the Guggenheim Museum as part of “It Takes Two,” a symposia presented on the occasion of the retrospective “Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better,” on April 23–24, 2016.

Artist John Knight speaks with art historian Bettina Funcke about his site-specific works that engage institutional critique. This video is part of Artists Space’s “Dialogues” series, in which Funcke speaks with an influential member of the art world about their life and work.

Tony Conrad talks about rhythm, being an artist, his influences and his filmmaking process at Doug Aitken’s “MIRROR HAPPENING” in Seattle, 2013.

Ariana Reines, May 15, 2018.

Ariana Reines, January 12, 2018, 2018, video, color, sound, 11 seconds.

I swear I didn’t do anything to my phone except mentally recite the phrase “warmest sunrise of the year” as I hit record.

An excerpt from Chuck Jones’s Water, Water Every Hare (1952), an episode of Looney Tunes featuring Bugs Bunny and Gossamer chosen by Vanessa Place for our online 2016 November election feature. Here, Bugs Bunny gives Gossamer a new hairdo.

As part of the weekly video blog “Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men”, Rachel and Miles review Extraordinary X-Men #1 and Uncanny X-Men #600.

A live recording of Harry Belafonte’s cover of “All My Trials” (1959).

Nick Drake’s cover of “All My Trials,” from his album Family Tree (2007).

The Birthday Party’s “A Dead Song,” from their album Prayers on Fire (1981).

Nick Cave performs “From Her to Eternity” at Royal Albert Hall in London (2015).

The members of TOEAC, Renée Bekkers and Pieternel Berkers, perform J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia in C Minor (2013).

Kris Kristofferson’s “To Beat the Devil,” from his album Kristofferson (1970).

In We Have Always Been on Fire, artist Morgan Bassichis sings about the abysmal political present and the long histories of burning that we come from. A spell is cast conjuring Fire Island's queer ghosts into the contemporary moment. The film blends material shot in Cherry Grove during the summer of 2017 with found footage shot in the same location during fourth of July weekend in 1976.

Susan Alcorn performs Olivier Messiaen’s “O Sacrum Convivium” (2011)

Alice Coltrane’s “Jagadishwar,” from her album Turiya Sings (1982).

Alice Coltrane & Charlie Haden, “For Turiya,” from Haden’s album Closeness (1976).

President Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Chicago, IL, for the 2012 election.

Clint Eastwood addresses the 2012 Republican National Convention.

In this video, presiding Judge Ahmed Rifaat declares that live court coverage of Hosni Mubarak's trial will end on September 5, 2011 and people protest the decision.

November 27, 2009, takeover and protest at Brunnenstrasse 183, Berlin.

Aretha Franklin performing at the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

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Footage from the fire on February 9, 2009, at the CCTV complex. For coverage of the story, click here.

The first of Barack Obama's weekly addresses broadcast on YouTube. In the January 2009 issue of Artforum, novelist Lynne Tillman offers some considerations on this and other broadcasts by Obama. For more details, click here.

Nina Simone sings “Pirate Jenny” at the International Jazz Festival in Montreal on July 2, 1992.

Justin Shoulder at de Sarthe Gallery as part of Asian Dope Boys performance on March 22, 2017 during Art Basel Hong Kong Art Week.

A short video of Papo Colo's Procesión-Migración, January 7, 2017 in Puerto Rico.

Sandra Bernhard performs with Thomas Bartlett at Justin Vivian Bond—Trans/Art/Family: The Vivification of NYC, September 11, 2016.

Young Jean Lee visits the Performing Garage in early rehearsals for The Wooster Group’s The Town Hall Affair (2016). To read J. Hoberman’s Performance piece on The Wooster Group, pick up the September 2016 issue of Artforum, or read it online at Artforum.com here.

Wang Dongling performs at the British Museum.

Artist C. Spencer Yeh performs a live adaptation of his project America: The Artist’s Eye with Triple Canopy editors Lucy Ives and Alexander Provan. C. Spencer Yeh also discusses his work with sound and the particularities of voice in his interview, here.

Tori Wrånes’s performance featuring Lisa Asplund, Lasse Marhaug, and Constance Tenvik, for “The Eccentrics” at the SculptureCenter in New York on January 24, 2016.

Alex Waterman, Clouds and Crowds, for twelve singers at EFA Project Space, November, 2015.

Rebecca Wilcox, In relation and halved, fogged and funny (2015) at EFA Project Space.

Ariana Reines reads The Thunder: Perfect Mind from the Nag Hammadi library, for the blue blood moon eclipse in Leo, January 31, 2018.

Barbara Mor reads from The Great Cosmic Mother (1987) in an excerpt from the documentary film Thomas Morton & The Maypole of Merrymount: Disorder in the American Wilderness (1992.)

Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards, November 19, 2014.

W.B.Yeats reading his own verse in 1932, 1934, and 1937.

Karen Weiser and Alice Notley, introduced by Fanny Howe at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard

John Giorno reads There Was a Bad Tree at the Poetry Project (2018).

Reading with artist Dread Scott, poet Natalie Diaz, writer Ru Freeman, poet Lawrence Joseph and writer Dina Omar on January 14, 2016, in support of Palestinian poet and curator Ashraf Fayadh, who faces a death sentence in Saudi Arabia for apostasy.

Anthropologist Michael Taussig talks about Jean Rouch’s Les Maîtres Fous and Juan Downey’s The Laughing Alligator at Artists Space Books & Talks, December 2015.

Artist Jordan Casteel discusses her process and her work documenting black masculinity. This video is part of Art21’s “Summer of Shorts” series, a short weekly video interview program featuring various artists, premiering every Friday from June 2 to August 4 on Art21’s website.

Artist Sean Raspet discusses his interest in the chemical structure of flavors, scents, and how molecular analysis presents new ways of thinking about art objects and their relationship to audiences.

This video is part of Swiss Institute’s “SI: VISIONS” video series, in collaboration with UBS.

Artist Christina Forrer discusses her process of using online videos of fights with animals and people, as well as scenes of everyday conflict from life, as inspiration in her weavings.

This video is part of Swiss Institute’s “SI: VISIONS” video series, in collaboration with UBS.

John Akomfrah discusses his influences and his process as a filmmaker. To read Nora M. Alter’s piece on John Akomfrah’s recent work, pick up the February 2016 issue of Artforum, or click here.

Charlie Ahearn’s video portrait of artist Martin Wong and his autobiographical Chinatown series based on his youth in San Francisco and New York.

The installation of Richard Serra’s Gutter Corner Splash: Night Shift (1969 / 1995). To read Jeffrey Weiss’s piece on Richard Serra’s early Splash/Cast works, pick up the November 2015 issue of Artforum, or click here.

The official trailer for the television show Riverdale (2017–). For more on this show, read Charlie Fox’s Film piece.

The trailer for Bertrand Bernello’s Nocturama, 2016. Bernello discusses his film in his interview here.

The trailer for Djibril Diop Mambeti’s Touki Bouki (1973). To read Koyo Kouoh’s related piece on art institutions in Dakar, pick up the September 2016 issue of Artforum, or read it online at Artforum.com here.

A promo for Josephine Halvorson’s Measures, 2016, three new works presented as part of the annual “Outlooks” exhibition series at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York, which is on view May 14 to November 13, 2016.

The trailer for Rachel Mason’s The Lives of Hamilton Fish (2016), a musical feature film set in the New York area during the Great Depression.

Musician Herb Alpert and various winners of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts talk about the award as well as the importance of the arts in our society. This video was created by Wondros, and directed by Jesse Dylan.

The official trailer for Kathryn Karwat and George Pitts’s Ann Liv Young / I Don’t Exist If You Don’t (2016), a documentary on the many characters of performance artist Ann Liv Young that combines video of her performances with in-depth interviews on her life and art.

The trailer for Maggie Lee’s Mommy (2015), a portrait of the artist’s mother before and after her unexpected death. To read Maggie Lee’s 1000 Words piece where she discusses her film, pick up the April 2016 issue of Artforum, or click here.

The official trailer for Aleksandr Sokurov’s Francofonia (2015), a film about the history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation of France. To read Tony Pipolo’s piece on the film, pick up the April 2016 issue of Artforum, or click here.