One of Many Possible Art Issues
Agreement Is Not What We Look For
Strangers to the art world may have come across the work of Cerith Wyn Evans in his collaborations with the director Derek Jarman. Together the two made videos for the Smiths, the Fall and the Pet Shop Boys in the 1980s.
God Is Pissing From A Great Height
A couple of months ago I walked into the Wilkinson Gallery in London, expecting to potter around as usual, rubbing my chin at mediocre art as if I was definitely going to buy a piece for five trillion pounds.
Neville Wakefield
Neville Wakefield is the sort of writer and curator that is sorely needed today. He questions the institutions that now seem to hover, like creepy gods, over the making of art.
Long Live The Large Family
Carl Johan De Geer is a healthy, creative and all-round delightful gentleman in his early 70s who, in rejection of his unhappy upbringing in one of Sweden's most powerful aristocratic families, has lived his life as a perennial underground artist.
Fear, Desire, Drugs, and Fucking
Antoine D'Agata is a contentious character in the worlds of photography and art. Signed up by the Magnum photo agency in the period when they started to realise there was little money in photojournalism, his work has a habit of upsetting people.
Literary
When Aron Mörel of London’s Mörel Books put out my first book, which was also his first proper full-run publication, he was a poetry zine publisher with big dreams.
Bob Nickas
Disclosure City: Bob Nickas was my boss at index magazine from 1999 to 2001. We’ve remained close friends since then. I thought about recusing myself from writing an intro here because this is basically a long interview with a friend.
Ryan Trecartin
First of all, let’s say it would be hard to find a sleeker art-world hot rod than Ryan Trecartin.