Christian Petzold discusses his process of filmmaking. A retrospective of his work is currently running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center through December 13, 2018.

Peter Brook discusses his new play, The Prisoner (2018), currently running at Theatre for a New Audience in New York through December 16, 2018. 

Hank Willis Thomas talks about his life, art, and his Super PAC, For Freedoms.

Brooklyn-based artist Narcissister talks about her life and work, as well as her new film, Narcissister Organ Player, which plays at Film Forum November 14–November 20. 

Artist Lorraine O’Grady talks about the internet and her beginnings as an artist. To read more from this interview, click here.

Aria Dean talks about the work in her show, “lonesome crowded west,” up at Chateau Shatto in Los Angeles through October 27, 2018, in an excerpt from this interview.

Nancy Goldring talks about her beginnings as an artist and her friendship with Leo Steinberg in an excerpt from this interview.

Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about Edvard Munch, “Towards the Forest,” an exhibition he curated at the Munch Museum in 2017, and Joachim and Emil Trier’s The Other Munch (2018).

Zina Saro-Wiwa talks about her art and engagements with environmentalism. “The Turquoise Meat Inside,” her first solo exhibition in Europe, is up at Tiwani Contemporary in London through October 27, 2018.

John Edmonds talks about his art and his first monograph, Higher, published through Capricious Publishing, which covers the first decade of his photographic work and includes a conversation with Mickalene Thomas as well as texts from Dr. Aaron Rosen and Durga Chew-Bose. Edmonds’ book will be released at the New York Art Book Fair, September 21–23, 2018.

Dennis Cooper talks about the development and production of Permanent Green Light (2018), a film he wrote and directed with Zac Farley. To read more from this interview, click here.

Sue Coe opened her solo show “Graphic Resistance” at MoMA PS1 on June 3rd, 2018 and it closes on September 9, 2018. For more from this interview, click here.

Maria Gaspar, On the Border of What Is Formless and Monstrous (excerpt), 2016, five-channel sound and video installation, dimensions variable.

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.

Party Like It’s 2007’s Famous for Being Famous (2015), a compilation film comprised of archive interviews and paparazzi footage documenting Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian’s rise to fame. For more, see Paige K. Bradley’s Slant on Paris.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Group exhibition at Georg Kargl Fine Arts in Vienna featuring Andreas Fogarasi, Björn Kämmerer, Manuel Knapp, David Maljkovic, Wolfgang Plöger and Tobias Putrih. Curated by Fiona Liewehr.

Janek Schaeffer's sound and image installation piece, shown at South Hill Park during the Sound:Space event in 2007.

“Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea by Swoon is a floating art performance, a project that took the efforts of seventy-five collaborators and a year to produce. The boats, or floating sculptures, were assembled and shipped to Troy, New York, stopping by various towns along the river for impromptu performances.”

This video, timed to coincide with the opening of her newest exhibition in New York, features interviews with Swoon and with Jeffrey Deitch.

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): click here.

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.

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.

An excerpt from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979). To read Andrew Hultkrans’s review of the film, click here.

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.

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.

2013 Carnegie Prize winner Nicole Eisenman speaks about her work exhibited at the Carnegie Museum’s Hall of Sculpture during the 2013 Carnegie International.

Artist Gabriel Sierra speaks here about creating his Untitled (111.111.111 x 111.111.111 = 12345678987654321) for the 2013 Carnegie International.

Artist Sadie Benning speaks about her latest work, Locating Centers.

Interview with 2014 Whitney Biennial artist, Dan Walsh, by Robert-Jan Muller on his project Time Trials at Slewe Gallery in Amsterdam, September 2011.

Frances Stark and recording artist R.A.H. discuss her installation, -Bobby Jesus’s Alma Mater b/w Reading the Book of David and/or Paying Attention Is Free, making its debut at the 2013 Carnegie International.

A video showing the reinstallation of Yvan Pestalozzi’s The Lozziwurm from 1972 at the Carnegie Museum of Art on the occasion of the 2013 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, which will be on view from October 5, 2013, to March 16, 2014.

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.

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.

Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “The cultural roots of the present failure of the EU” as part of the Aesthetic Seminar series at Aarhus University on April 30, 2015. Berardi’s new book, And, was published in November 2015 by Semiotext(e).

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 “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.

The music video for Anohni’s “Drone Bomb Me,” 2016, directed by filmmaker Nabil and featuring supermodel Naomi Campbell. “Drone Bomb Me” is the opening track on ANOHNI’S debut solo album Hopelessness, co-produced by Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never.

Music Video for DR00idS, “Vacation Apparel,” the first release from Merkx&Gwynne’s King Arthur Rock Opera project.

Contessa Stuto // CUNTMAFIA
Horny Lil' Slut
Director: Rosalina Merrihue
Assistant Director: Gabriel Magdaleno
Assistant stylists: Markko Donto & Kim De'ville

Hi Tiger, the Portland, Maine based art-punk band fronted by visual artist and performer Derek Jackson, recreates the song “The Village” by New Order, which was originally recorded as an upbeat new wave tune in 1982.

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.

Music video created by Portland-based artists Brenna Murphy and Amy Faust.

Arto Lindsay performing at the Moderna Museet on the occasion of a party for incoming director Daniel Birnbaum, November 5, 2010.

Michael Bell-Smith: “Oliver Laric’s 50 50 cuts together fifty home videos of people rapping along to 50 Cent songs - all culled from online video sharing sites – into a cohesive music video-style montage. While it touches on a variety of themes, the video’s main subject is the very role of music video in a culture with sites like YouTube.”

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. 

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.

Tanya Lukin Linklater and Laura Ortman, Accompaniment (2015) at EFA Project Space.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Trailer for curator and art historian James Crump's Troublemakers, a new documentary film about the history of land art.