Toyin Ojih Odutola's exhibition “Tell Me A Story, I Don't Care If It's True” is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York through November 7th, 2020. 

Kayode Ojo gives us a glimpse into his show, “The Aviator,” at Martos Gallery in New York.

The exhibition is on view through October 25, 2020.

Miz Cracker talks with artist Laurie Simmons about her early black and white photography and how questions of gender inform her process.

Gabriel Orozco talks about working under lockdown in Tokyo and how he borrows influence from nature in his work.

His latest exhibition is on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York through October 24, 2020.

The artist gives the origin story of his alter ego, Torpedo Boy, and talks about what Philip Guston’s infamous Klansmen have to offer.

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s latest exhibition, “Something American,” is on view at James Cohan’s two New York City locations through October 17, 2020.

Nicola Tyson speaks about her self-portraiture, creating drawings under lockdown, and humor in the exhibition “Sense of Self” at Petzel Gallery through October 3rd 2020. 

Stanley Whitney talks about his work on Artforum’s September 2020 cover, what No Prison Life really means, and the origins of his compositions.

Rochelle Goldberg on her exhibition “Psychomachia” at Miguel Abreu Gallery (March 6 - August 22, 2020), working with medieval genres, and reimagining Mary of Egypt. 

Miz Cracker talks with artist Meriem Bennani about her exhibition last year at Clearing Gallery in Brooklyn and how she makes work with her family.

Gary Simmons on “Screaming into the Ether” at Metro Pictures, working with racist cartoon imagery, and picturing historical erasure. 

On view at Metro Pictures through September 12, 2020.

Nora Chipaumire and Ari Marcopoulos speak about the conceptualization of #PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA, Congolese rumba, and the limitations of virtual audiences.

Miz Cracker talks with artist Judith Bernstein about graffiti, humor, and being the “crazy lady shouting in the quiet room."

New Red Order, Never Settle: Calling In, 2020, video, sound, color, 3 minutes 57 seconds. Recruitment video.

John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, 1986.

Carolyn Lazard, CRIP TIME, 2018, HD video, sound, color, 10 minutes. Artist-provided visual description: A one-take video shot from an overhead view over the surface of a table. On an embroidered tablecloth is a 7-day weekly pill organizer separated into daily compartments. The labels on the organizer have been partially worn off through repeated use. A set of brown hands with gold nail polish emerge from the top of the frame and begin to separate and open the compartments. The hands proceed to open various pill and supplement bottles and fill the different compartments with pills and supplements.

Bruce Baillie, All My Life, 1966, 16 mm, color, sound, 2 minutes 45 seconds.

Petra Cortright, Capture_20111215_4, 2011, YouTube video, color, sound, 35 seconds.

Trailer for Leslie Thornton’s Ground, 2020, HD video, color, sound, 12 minutes 30 seconds.

Trailer for Leslie Thornton’s Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding, 2016, 16 mm, sound, 95 minutes.

“The world will never be the same.” Weeks into quarantine, the lizards struggle to distinguish dream from reality.  

Written, Directed and Edited by Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani

Original Score : Flavien Berger

News Anchor Mouse voice : Maluca Mala

Painting in Lizard room : Dachi Cole

Olia Lialina, Hosted, 2020, network performance (screen capture).

The lizards go for a drive and discuss celebrity culture, but panic soon sets in. 

Written, directed and edited by Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani 

Music by COQUETA

Artforum is pleased to host this Instagram video by Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, made while self-isolating because of COVID-19.

Beautiful moment of communion through sound waves in Brooklyn despite social distancing—the virus's protective membrane is very sensitive to soap and heat but also bass. These two lizards are lucky they work from home and can afford to stay inside. This is the first collaboration between Yani and me; we made it over the weekend to take a break from editing and animating for work. —Meriem Bennani

For the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art on December 1, 2019, Visual AIDS presented STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,” the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the

Bookforum presents “Fool that I Am,” a Valentine’s Day reading featuring Lexi Freiman, Amitava Kumar, Sam Lipsyte, Minna Zallman Proctor, and Jess Row, at the New Museum in New York, 2019.

Bookforum presents “Bleeding Hearts,” a Valentine’s Day reading featuring Sloane Crosley, Porochista Khakpour, Patrick McGrath, Dana Spiotta, and Tony Tulathimutte, at the New Museum in New York.

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.

In Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, each of the three participating institutions—the Barbican, London, BAM in New York City, and CAP UCLA in Los Angeles—will present a ninety (90) minute performance comprised of 100 solos choreographed by Merce Cunningham. In each city, a former dancer experienced in creating Cunningham Events will work with an associate stager and other Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni to impart the choreography to a new generation of dancers.

In Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, each of the three participating institutions—the Barbican, London, BAM in New York City, and CAP UCLA in Los Angeles—will present a ninety (90) minute performance comprised of 100 solos choreographed by Merce Cunningham. In each city, a former dancer experienced in creating Cunningham Events will work with an associate stager and other Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni to impart the choreography to a new generation of dancers.

In Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, each of the three participating institutions—the Barbican, London, BAM in New York City, and CAP UCLA in Los Angeles—will present a ninety (90) minute performance comprised of 100 solos choreographed by Merce Cunningham. In each city, a former dancer experienced in creating Cunningham Events will work with an associate stager and other Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni to impart the choreography to a new generation of dancers.

“Seven O’Clock: The Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Days of the Week,” an excerpt from New York City Ballet’s production of Justin Peck’s The Most Incredible Thing, with music by Bryce Dessner and costumes and visual design by Marcel Dzama, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York.

Jennifer West - Flashlight Filmstrip Projections SERPENTINE DANCE LIVE PERFORMANCE DOCUMENT

Commissioned by PICA TBA Fest 2014, curated by Kristan Kennedy for visual arts exhibition, “As round as an apple, as deep as a cup” Performed live for two nights in September inside the “Flashlight Filmstrip Projections”

Installation

Video shot and edited by Peter West

Serpentine Dance: Connie D. Moore

Flashlight Performers: Leif J. Lee, Julie Perini, Micah Schmelzer, Jwest

Synthesizer: Jesse Mejía

Theremin: Mark Keppinger

Choreography and Serpentine Costume: Maranee Sanders

Serpentine Dance Research

LGM Television presents an excerpt from Trisha Brown, Newark (Niweweorce), 1987 at l'Opéra de Lyon.

Trisha Brown, Newark (Niweweorce), 1987. (Excerpt)

A fragment from Ryan McNamara's MEƎM: A Story Ballet About the Internet, performed November 8–12, 2013, at the Connelly Theater in New York. Commissioned by Performa for Performa13. This clip features Jason Collins.

Winner of the 2013 Malcolm McLaren Award.

A fragment from Ryan McNamara, MEƎM: A Story Ballet About the Internet, 2013.

Excerpt from Eleanor Bauer’s Midday & Eternity (the time piece) (2013).

For Aura Rosenberg's June 2011 exhibition “The Golden Age” at Sassa Trülzsch Gallery, dancers printed themselves on black velvet in the sexual position ascribed to the zodiac sign of Leo. Following the performance, the painting was on the gallery wall and it became part of the series “The Astrological Ways.”

Yvonne Rainer interviewed at the Artforum offices on October 17, 2011, which is part of an ongoing commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Judson. Here, Rainer recalls her introduction to dance and development. For more, read Rainer’s interview here.

Yvonne Rainer interviewed at the Artforum offices on October 17, 2011.

Choreographer and dancer Maria Hassabi performs a selection from her work Solo at an opening for the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, April 8, 2011.

Maria Hassabi performs at the Museo Soumaya.

María Berrío discusses “Flowered Songs and Broken Currents,” an ongoing exhibition at Victoria Miro that chronicles the aftermath of tragedy in a fictional Colombian fishing village. In a series of large, densely layered portraits, the artist explores how grief shapes a community whose memory hovers between individual and historical, real and imaginary.

Flora Yukhnovich discusses how Tiepolo, Casanova, and Vivaldi inspired the works in her new XR exhibition at Victoria Miro, “The Venice Paintings,” created during a residency in the city with the gallery last year.

Flora Yukhnovich: The Venice Paintings

May 19 – June 20, 2020

Meet Fabrizio (Fab) Moretti, visual artist and drummer for The Strokes. Then, meet Fabrizio Moretti, art dealer and proprietor of the London-based Galleria Moretti. At Sotheby’s New York headquarters, these two Fabrizios introduce “Fabrizio Moretti x Fabrizio Moretti In Passing|,” an auction and exhibition of Old Master paintings and sculptures. This sale features a rare selection of twenty-four works curated by Fabrizio Moretti and showcased in a series of installations designed by Fab Moretti. These two men share more than just a name, and although they each bring a distinctive vision, their

Sue Williamson’s Messages from the Atlantic Passage (2017), on view here at Basel Unlimited 2017.

Artists Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija, in a new rendition of their ongoing project “Green Go Home,” 2014–, created a silkscreen printing press in “Occupy Mana: Artists Need to Create at the Same Scale as Society Has the Capacity to Destroy”— this time replacing ink with clay from a mountain in Puerto Rico. The exhibition was curated by Phong Bui and Rail Curatorial Projects for Mana Contemporary.

Ariana Reines’s video from “Pubic Space,” her exhibition with Oscar Tuazon at Stuart Shave Modern Art, 2016.

Ariana Reines’s video from “Pubic Space,” her exhibition with Oscar Tuazon at Stuart Shave Modern Art, 2016.

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.

Göran Olsson, The Black Power Mixtape, 1967–1975,* color and black-and-white, sound, 100 minutes.

The Great Silence focuses on the world’s largest single aperture radio telescope, located in Esperanza (Hope), Puerto Rico, which transmits and captures radio waves to and from the farthest edges of the universe. The site of the Arecibo Observatory is also home to the last remaining wild population of critically endangered Puerto Rican Parrots, Amazona vittata, who make their habitat in the surrounding Rio Abajo forest. Allora & Calzadilla collaborated with science fiction author Ted Chiang on a subtitled script that explores translation as a device to trace and ponder the irreducible gaps

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.

Undiscovered Territory (2016), featuring Ed Ruscha; a segment from Doug Aitken’s Station to Station, a feature film comprising sixty-two one-minute films, now available on iTunes.

The Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art presents its inaugural year of programming as an “incubator for innovative thinking on the photographic image.”

In part 4 of The Invisible Photograph, learn how Berlin-based artist Joachim Schmid's “anti-museum” of found and discarded imagery challenges us to reconsider our assumptions of photographic worth.

Watch other parts of The Invisible Photograph series.

Part 1 (Underground): click here.

Part 2 (Trapped): click here.

Part 3 (Extraterrestrial): click here.

Part 5 (Subatomic): click here.

The Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art presents its inaugural year of programming as an “incubator for innovative thinking on the photographic image.”

Part 5 of The Invisible Photograph, investigates how photographic technologies are being used to visualize the subatomic world at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world—where photography and the world’s most physics research collide.

Watch other parts of The Invisible Photograph series.

Part 1 (Underground): click here.

Part 2 (Trapped): click here.

Part 3 (Extraterrestrial): click here.

Part 4 (Discarded):

Lyle Ashton Harris' Selections from the Ektachrome Archive is a snapshot from 1986–1996, chronicling the moments—now memories—of this charged decade, featuring over one hundred images taken by Harris.

The work was commissioned by Visual AIDS as part of “Alternate Endings,” a video program launching December 1, 2014, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Day With(out) Art—a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis.

Lyle Ashton Harris, Selections from the Ektachrome Archive, 2014

The jazz pianist Jason Moran reflects on his collaborative experiences with legendary performance artist Joan Jonas. Video is excerpted from Grammar - A Documentary Film about Jazz through Jason Moran and co-directed by Radiclani Clytus, Gregg Conde, Anthony Gannon, and Joseph Paul Alvarado.

The Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art presents its inaugural year of programing as an “incubator for innovative thinking on the photographic image.”

In Part III of The Invisible Photograph, see how the “techno archaeologists” of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project digitally recovered the first photographs of the moon taken by a set of unmanned space probes in the 1960s.

Watch other parts of The Invisible Photograph series.

Part 1 (Underground): click here.

Part 2 (Trapped): click here.

Part 4 (Discarded): click here.

Part 5 (Subatomic): click here.

Preview for Jennifer West’s Arrid Extra Dry 1965 TV Commercial Film (2013), 16mm film print painted with birth control pills, writing inks and sweat and transferred to HD.

The Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art presents its inaugural year of programing as an “incubator for innovative thinking on the photographic image.”

Part II of The Invisible Photograph follows a team of computer scientists, archivists, artists, and curators, including Corey Arcangel, as they unearth Andy Warhol’s lost digital works.

Watch other parts of The Invisible Photograph series.

Part 1 (Underground): click here.

Part 3 (Extraterrestrial): click here.

Part 4 (Discarded): click here.

Part 5 (Subatomic): click here.

The Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art presents its inaugural year of programing as an “incubator for innovative thinking on the photographic image.”

Here, a safe haven for thousands of images is explored hundreds of feet below ground in a repurposed limestone mine.

Watch other parts of The Invisible Photograph series.

Part 2 (Trapped): click here.

Part 3 (Extraterrestrial): click here.

Part 4 (Discarded): click here.

Part 5 (Subatomic): click here.

Grayson Perry discusses his new exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair, “Super Rich Interior Decoration,” casting an anthropological eye on the heady collision of art, money, power, and desire.

Adam Pendleton discusses his work within the context of his exhibition “Who We Are” at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin. Pendleton’s first exhibition with the gallery includes the latest examples of his spray-painted and silkscreened canvases, works on Mylar, System of Display, and video portraits, as well as a monumental wall intervention. The new work, much of which incorporates language from the composer Julius Eastman, demonstrates Pendleton’s layered, archival approach to creation as he inquires into the relationship between representation and abstraction, history, and notions of “blackness”.

In this video, designer David Korins reveals how he chose to display “Treasures From Chatsworth,” a rare and intimate presentation of works from the Devonshire Collection. Free of charge and open to the public, the exhibition will be on view from June 28 to September 18, 2019, in Sotheby’s renovated New York galleries at 1334 York Avenue.

Howardena Pindell’s first solo exhibition in the UK includes abstract paintings and collages drawn from two distinct periods in the artist’s career: large-scale spray paintings from the early 1970s and smaller wall-mounted three-dimensional works completed since 2007.

In this video, Pindell responds to seeing her work installed at Victoria Miro’s Mayfair gallery. The exhibition continues through July 27, 2019.

The Devonshire Collection has been passed down through sixteen generations of the Cavendish Family and encompasses fine art, design, and jewelry from the past five centuries. Forty-five masterworks from the collection will be on view in “Treasures from Chatsworth” at Sotheby’s newly expanded and reimagined New York galleries, from June 29 to September 18. In this video, the 12th Duke of Devonshire previews the works coming to New York, from Rembrandt van Rijn to Lucian Freud.

Chris Levine works with light to create expanded states of perception and awareness. At his London studio, Levine explains how a childhood fascination with holography informed his future career, and traces how his personal struggles eventually led to his unusual approach to portraiture—including his portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in Lightness of Being, 2004.

Daniel Arsham takes a near-scientific approach to art in order to transform ordinary objects—cameras, cassette tapes, mobile phones—into archaeological discoveries from a future, dystopian world. In this studio visit, the artist tracks his development from early forays in photography and painting to a formative collaboration with Merce Cunningham, through to his work today and his vision of the world in 3019.

Jasper Sharp, curator of the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s current Mark Rothko retrospective, and Sotheby’s Contemporary Art specialist Saara Pritchard examine one of the most important periods of the artist’s career.

In the 1960s, Rothko abandoned the bright colors that characterize his work of the early 1950s in favor of deep reds and burgundies. Untitled, 1960, a highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on May 16, illuminates this profound shift. “Seen close up and in a penumbra, as these paintings are meant to be seen, they absorb, they envelop the viewer,” wrote Peter Selz,

Artist Jonas Wood reflects on his move to Los Angeles, the importance of the Hammer Museum, and his singular approach to creating art. Wood and his wife, artist and studio mate Shio Kusaka, have donated their works Shio Butterfly Still Life (2019) and (Line 65) (2017) as part of Artists for the Hammer Museum—a collection of pieces given by over forty leading contemporary artists to help establish a new Artist Fund at the Hammer Museum. This fund directly supports the museum’s pioneering exhibition program and work with emerging artists. The full collection of donated works will be offered across

Lee Krasner’s resilient spirit and groundbreaking talent is captured in her large-scale masterpiece The Eye is the First Circle, offered as a highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction (May 16th, New York). Contemporary art specialist Saara Pritchard joins Eleanor Naire, curator at the Barbican Art Gallery and organizer of the upcoming exhibition “Lee Krasner: Living Colour,” in an exploration of how The Eye is the First Circle exemplifies Krasner's iconic vision. Painted in 1960 following the death of her husband, Jackson Pollock, this immense canvas is the embodiment of Krasner’s

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.

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art,” Susan Sontag, one of America’s most astute interpreters of art, once wrote—surely with a touch of irony. But is critical thinking really an enemy of the creative spirit? Or is it precisely this friction that makes for a richer, more dynamic cultural landscape? This conversation addresses the necessity, and the limits, of both art and criticism, and how the relationship between artist and critic has evolved over time.

Moderator: Jennifer Krasinski, Senior Editor, Artforum.

Participants: Rhonda Lieberman, Writer and Artist, Contributing

An excerpt from a lecture by critic J. Hoberman on Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963) and No President (1968) at the Filmmakers Cooperative in New York, November 3, 2018. A full transcript of the lecture is available to read here.

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.

Artist Dread Scott speaks with artist Eric Gottesman and curator Lauren van Haaften-Schick at Jack Shainman Gallery on July 20, 2016, on the occasion of “For Freedoms,” an artist-run super PAC that uses art to inspire deeper political engagement in the 2016 American Presidential election.

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.

A panel on the exhibition “Language of the Birds: Occult and Art,” moderated by curator Pam Grossman, with Professor Susan L. Aberth, artist Jesse Bransford, and musician William Breeze, on February 10, 2016 at 80WSE Gallery in New York.

A roundtable on a digital approach to poetics with panelists Dennis Tenen, Karla Nielsen, Taeyoon Choi, Kendra Sullivan, Iris Cushing, and moderated by Mary Catherine Kinniburgh at the CUNY Graduate Center on February 5, 2016.

Artists Juan Betancurth and Benjamin Frederickson speak with artist Allen Frame about “Nydia,” Betancurth and Frederickson’s newest collaborative body of work at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York on February 6, 2016.

In conjunction with the exhibition “Never Twice: Live Expanded Cinema Performance,” Microscope Gallery hosted “The Discussion” on January 4, 2016 in Brooklyn. This roundtable features artists Bruce McClure, Bradley Eros, Joel Schlemowitz, Rose Kallal, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Barbara Hammer, and Andrew Lampert discussing the theme of “expanded cinema”–what the term means today, and how it has or has not changed since the start of their artistic practices.

Maureen Orth interviewed John Lewis and Tom Houck for TVTV at the 1972 Republican National Convention.

Mourning dove bird song.

Kim Gordon’s “Earthquake.”

Dino Saluzzi’s Bandoneón Tierra Adentro.

our sense of the verb “to remember” comes from the latin recordari, literally to pass through the heart.

The “Eye of Sauron” on the Salesforce Tower light display at night as seen from Pine Street and Mason Street in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco on Wednesday, October 31, 2018. 

“Eye of Sauron” on Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, Halloween, 2018.

Ariana Reines, May 15, 2018.

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

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.

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

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Donny Hathaway, “For All We Know.”

Terry Riley’s “Shri Camel: Morning Corona,” part one.

Terry Riley and Don Cherry ‎perform “Köln,” February 23, 1975.

03 Greedo’s “Shittin (Lately),” 2017. 

Christian Fennesz’s “Don't Talk (put your head on my shoulder)” (Editions Mego, 1998).

Fennesz, “Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder),” 1998.

The third track on Christian Fennesz’s Agora, his latest solo album (Touch Records, 2019). 

Fennesz, “Agora,” 2019.

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.

The music video for Pillar Point’s “Dove,” from their album Marble Mouth (2016), featuring Kia Labeija and Taina Larot, and directed by Jacob Krupnick.

The music video for “Portfolio” by Penis (2016).

Martin Creed’s Understanding (2016). To read Alan Licht’s piece on Martin Creed’s “The Back Door,” pick up the September 2016 issue of Artforum, or read it online.

Kim Gordon as Kim Gordon

Directed by Mariko Munro

Cinematography by Milena Pastreich

Concept by Elaine Kahn and Mariko Munro

Production Design by Francis Cardinale

Wardrobe by Andrea Longacre White

Color by Kaitlyn Bastelli

Kim Gordon.

On February 13, San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture removed Xandra Ibarra’s Spictacle II: La Tortillera, 2014, from the opening of a group exhibition at the Centro de Artes. The four-minute video, deemed “obscene” by the city, presents the artist in character La Chica Boom as she performs one of her “spictacles”—Ibarra’s coinage for “camp spectacles of Mexican and Mexican-American myths that render the colonial gaze laughable.” The decision to remove the work has been criticized by artists, supporters, and groups including the National Coalition Against Censorship.

Spictacle II: La Tortillera

Jean Paul Gaultier’s last show

In Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, each of the three participating institutions—the Barbican, London, BAM in New York City, and CAP UCLA in Los Angeles—will present a ninety (90) minute performance comprised of 100 solos choreographed by Merce Cunningham. In each city, a former dancer experienced in creating Cunningham Events will work with an associate stager and other Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni to impart the choreography to a new generation of dancers.

In Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, each of the three participating institutions—the Barbican, London, BAM in New York City, and CAP UCLA in Los Angeles—will present a ninety (90) minute performance comprised of 100 solos choreographed by Merce Cunningham. In each city, a former dancer experienced in creating Cunningham Events will work with an associate stager and other Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni to impart the choreography to a new generation of dancers.

In Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, each of the three participating institutions—the Barbican, London, BAM in New York City, and CAP UCLA in Los Angeles—will present a ninety (90) minute performance comprised of 100 solos choreographed by Merce Cunningham. In each city, a former dancer experienced in creating Cunningham Events will work with an associate stager and other Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni to impart the choreography to a new generation of dancers.

Christoph Cox discusses his new book Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (University of Chicago Press) with artist Aura Satz. The performance also includes solo sets by Maria Chavez (turntables) and Jake Meginsky (electronics). 

In this performative lecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer shares guidelines and film clips from her long-term art-making practice, October 10, 2018. 

Barbara Hammer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018. Courtesy of One Glass Video.

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

Papo Colo, Procesión-Migración, January 7, 2017.

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

Sandra Bernhard and Thomas Bartlett at Trans/Art/Family: The Vivification of NYC. September 11, 2016.

An excerpt from Karine Laval’s Heterotopia {Remix} (2016), a site-specific installation and performance that blends large-scale video projection with a live musical accompaniment utilizing field recordings of the Costa Rican rainforest. This video premiered on the occasion of her exhibition “Artificial by Nature” at Benrubi Gallery, May 19–July 1, 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.

Bookforum presents “Fool that I Am,” a Valentine’s Day reading featuring Lexi Freiman, Amitava Kumar, Sam Lipsyte, Minna Zallman Proctor, and Jess Row, at the New Museum in New York, 2019.

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.

Excerpt from Marthe Ramm Fortun’s I hate Old poetmen (February 2nd, 2012).

The performative launch of Susan Silton’s multipart project about women whistling and the inbetween voice at LAXART, Los Angeles. Performers: Kathryn Nockels, Jessica Basta, Carole Anne Kaufman, Erin Barnes, Laura Loftsgaarden, Susan Silton. Composer/Arranger/Cellist: Jessica Catron. Musicians: Erin Barnes, Joe Berardi, Jeremy Drake. Writer Dodie Bellamy also read from Whistle While You Dixie, one of a series of written works commissioned for the project.

As Marc Jacobs relocates from his West Village townhouse to the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Max Hoffman House in Rye, New York, the iconic designer explores his eclectic collection of contemporary art—and its focus on figuration including artists such as Mike Kelley, John Currin, and Urs Fischer—with Sotheby’s chairman Amy Cappellazzo.

This November, Sotheby’s will offer an exceptional selection of works from Jacobs’ collection in their Contemporary Art Evening and Day sales.

A look inside “Return to the Real,” an exhibition of new works by Doug Aitken now on view at Victoria Miro London. Conceived as a unified composition of sound, light, form and movement, the show explores our rapidly changing relationships to one another and the world around us in an age dominated by technology. 

On New Year’s Day, 2018, Chantal Joffe set herself the challenge of working on a self-portrait every day for the coming year. This daily practice has resulted in a series of characteristically unflinching works. On the opening of her solo presentation at Victoria Miro in London, the artist walks through her studio and process.

This body of work will be on view at Victoria Miro from 11 April to 18 May, 2019.

Whose stories do tattoos tell?

In 2018, at the height of the Black Panther motion picture excitement, Doreen Garner hosts Invisible Man Tattoo, a pop-up tattoo shop in Brooklyn's Recess art space. A noted sculptor and licensed tattoo artist, Garner swaps sculpture for skin, and inks iconic Black American heroes and imagery on those who identify as being of the African Diaspora.

Doreen Garner (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/doreen-garner/

Does the past have a sound? Celebrated for his material-oriented practice, Kevin Beasley juxtaposes sound, silence, and sculpture to examine the legacy of cotton in the American South. Set to the beat of his improvised drumming, the film shows Beasley at work in his Queens studio finishing his multipart exhibition, “A view of a landscape,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art—his most ambitious work to date.

Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA) lives and works in Queens, New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/kevin-beasley/

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 Tabor Robak discusses his personal relationship to old and new video game technology, and describes how creating digital objects and environments changed his view of the world. To read Lloyd Wise on Tabor Robak, pick up the November 2015 issue of Artforum, or find it online here.

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.

Artist Dora Budor talks about the relationship between urban architecture and prosthetic bodies in sci-fi cinema.

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

Artist Alex Israel discusses Los Angeles and the mythology of its youth culture constructed by the city’s entertainment industry.

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

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

Watch a teaser of Isaac Julien’s new nine-screen installation, which meditates on the work and legacy of Lina Bo Bardi, the visionary architect and designer. The US premiere of Julien’s Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement will take place December 5–8 at Art Basel Miami Beach for Meridians, a new sector that will launch at the eighteenth edition of the show.

Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable which offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies. Binding together a documentary impulse with the bent plotlines of Australian film texts, Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens a willful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways. The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, feminist motorcycle gangs rule the highways, and flesh-eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial insurgents.

The official trailer for Soda

ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS highlights the impact of art in AIDS activism and advocacy today by commissioning compelling short videos from six inspiring community organizations and collectives—ACT UP NY, Positive Women’s Network, Sero Project, The SPOT, Tacoma Action Collective, and VOCAL NY. The program represents a wide range of organizational strategies, from direct action to grassroots service providers to nation-wide movement building, while considering the role of creative practices in activist responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis.

The trailer for Peter Nadin’s The Delivery, 2017. Peter Nadin discusses the making of this film in his interview, here.

Trailer for Peter Nadin’s The Delivery, 2017.

The trailer for Jan Bonny and Alex Wissel’s episodic television series, Rheingold, 2016. For more on this series, read Alex Wissel’s interview here.

Trailer for Jan Bonny and Alex Wissel’s episodic television series, Rheingold, 2016.

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.

Trailer for Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s Rudiments, 2015, a film about the formative moments of early youth with music by Kid Millions. This film is co-commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Forma Arts, and is supported by Arts Council England.

Trailer for Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s Rudiments, 2015.

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.

Trailer for Eve Sussman and Simon Lee’s No Food No Money No Jewels, 2015, an eighteen chapter interactive film commissioned by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center with music by Volkmar Klien, and featuring Jimbo Blachly, Nesbitt Blaisdell, Gillian Chadsey, Cate Giordano, Keppie, Michel Klöfkorn, Pedro Osorio, Christine Rebet, and Rob Swanston.

Trailer for Cecil B. Evans’ Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen (2014). Part of the New York Film Festival Projections series.