No Wrong Answers: Anuk Arudpragasam and Megha Majumdar Artforum 2021-08-04 | Bookforum is pleased to launch its new online event series No Wrong Answers with a conversation between novelists Anuk Arudpragasam ("The Story of a Brief Marriage”, "A Passage North"), and Megha Majumdar ("A Burning"). As with every No Wrong Answers event, there are no moderators, no agenda, and no preconceived notions. Just the opportunity to watch what happens when two great minds come together.The authors are introduced by Bookforum's editor in chief, Michael Miller, who fields audience questions.
Charles Atlas | UNDER THE INFLUENCE Artforum 2024-10-18 | Artforum’s newest video series, “Under the Influence,” invites the most significant artists of today to discuss the ideas, events, works, and people that have been crucial to their development. For this inaugural episode, we talk to Charles Atlas, a pioneer in film and video, whose first museum survey in the United States, “About Time,” opened this month at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and runs until March 16, 2025. Atlas’s Top Ten appears in the October 2024 issue of Artforum.
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul’s video Everyone is…(2017) | ARTIST PROJECT Artforum 2024-10-04 | In a time when hypernyms such as “Anthropocene” and “nonhuman” are becoming desensitized in contemporary art, is it still worthwhile for artists to question our seemingly unsalvageable relationships with other species and explore potential modes of alternative communication with them? For Wantanee Siripattananuntakul, this question is unpacked through her bond with Beuys––an African gray parrot named after the German artist. Recalling a moment of sudden euphoria in Khao Kheow Open Zoo (Chonburi, Thailand) upon hearing a chattering flock of gleeful parrots perched on the branches above, Wantanee channeled her fascination with their avian lexicon into a series of video-based collaborations that transcend conventional boundaries. Out of this series comes Everyone is…, 2017, where Beuys repeated the phrase “Everyone is a contemporary artist,” with each repetition slightly more obscure and erratic than the last. Documenting Beuys’s spontaneous utterances––with Wantanee following her lead instead of vice versa––the video can be read as either a playful interaction between the parrot and her artist, or a quirky philosophical musing on the state of contemporary art worldwide. -Hung DuongWantanee Siripattananuntakul’s work features in the group exhibition “Stemflow: South by Southeast,” running October 12 to December 31, 2024, at Osage Gallery, Hong Kong.
Wael Shawkys cinematic restaging of history at the Venice Biennale | UNDER THE COVER Artforum 2024-09-26 | Among the works Wael Shawky presents in the Egyptian pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale is his forty-five-minute film Drama 1882, which appears on the cover of Artforum ’s September 2024 issue. The piece restages the Urabi Revolution (1882–97) that eventually led to Britain’s occupation of Egypt. For this installment of “ Under the Cover,” Shawky talks to Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan about his use of classical Arabic and the meaning of this project for local talent in Alexandria.
Pieter Schoolwerth and Philip Vanderhyden CG video Supporting Actor | Artists Projects Artforum 2024-09-20 | Pieter Schoolwerth and Phil Vanderhyden, Supporting Actor, 2024, 4K video with sound by Aaron Dilloway, 10 minutes 48 seconds (looped). Excerpt: 3 minutes 17 seconds.There’s an awful lot to unpack in Pieter Schoolwerth’s latest outing at Petzel’s flagship Chelsea gallery, and every enticement to do so. Radiating out from a central installation consisting of a graphically generic bathroom-cum-mock-metaverse, tipped sideways and stretching up almost to the ceiling, are a stunning suite of large-scale paintings staging delightfully confounding yet thoroughly commanding mash-ups of abstract, figurative, digital, and analog material. The topsy-turvy enclosure doubles as a wormhole to a miniature version of the show and an adjacent metaphorical tech-art laboratory—too weird and elaborate to detail here—allegorizing the work’s production and the intersplicing of actual and virtual realities more generally. Abutting the left-hand side of the upended room is a stage-like platform, on which sound artist Aaron Dilloway performed a rousing guttural ode to corporeality on opening night. But wait, there’s more: Providing a welcome key to the quasi-narrative logic linking all the elements of this psychedelic Gesamtkunstwerk is a composite-big-screen presentation of a roughly eleven-minute, high-resolution video titled Supporting Actor (also the namesake of the overall exhibition) produced by Schoolwerth in collaboration with artist and CG-software maestro Philip Vanderhyden, with sound by Dilloway. Appearing here is a three-minute seventeen-second excerpt made especially for this context. Buckle up!
Sarah K. Rich on the art of Frank Stella | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2024-08-29 | Following artist Frank Stella’s passing this past May, Sarah K. Rich—associate professor of art history and director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies at Pennsylvania State University—offers a reading of Stella’s 1966 painting Union III for Artforum’s “Interpretations” series. Here, Rich discusses the irreproducibility of artworks, Stella’s use of fluorescent paint and its cultural implications, and John Baldessari’s tongue-in-cheek homage to Stella. Rich’s essay on Stella can be read in the September 2024 issue of the magazine.Stella’s “Irregular Polygons” series debuted at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966. Union III, a work from this grouping, was selected to illustrate the cover of Artforum’s November 1966 issue. Stella would be featured on three more of the magazine’s covers up until 1970. “Frank Stella’s New Paintings,” a seminal essay by Michael Fried, was published in that November issue. Nearly sixty years later, the text continues to be a source of inspiration for critics, scholars, and artists everywhere.
John Baldessari speaks with Tim Griffin in 2010 | Interviews Artforum 2024-08-28 | John Baldessari (1931–2020)— sits down with the magazine’s then–editor in chief, Tim Griffin—on the occasion of “Pure Beauty,” Baldessari’s retrospective, which came from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010.
Chika Okeke-Agulu on the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League Artforum 2024-07-25 | Princeton-based professor Chika Okeke-Agulu discusses “Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise,” an exhibition of works made by Congolese plantation workers as part of Dutch artist Renzo Martens’s Institute for Human Activities. This exhibition was on view at the SculptureCenter in New York from January 29 to March 27, 2017. To read Okeke-Agulu’s accompanying piece on the exhibition, pick up the May 2017 issue of Artforum, or read it online.
CATPCs film Ku Sambisama Ya Nso Ya Mpembe (The Judgment of the White Cube) | ARTISTS’ PROJECTS Artforum 2024-07-19 | The Congolese art collective known as CATPC (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, or Congolese Workers Plantation Art League) has been operating since 2014 on the former grounds of a Unilever plantation in present-day Lusanga. Having garnered renown over the past decade for their sculptures molded out of typical plantation products such as palm oil and cacao, CATPC invests the proceeds from the sales of their art toward buying the land its members live on and restoring it according to the principles of agroforestry. This regenerative model of artistic expression thereby empowers the community of Lusanga with both landownership and sustainable livelihoods.In 2017, the CATPC built a gallery on their property—an event documented in the 2020 film White Cube, made collaboratively with Dutch artist Renzo Martens. Over the past years, CATPC have worked to turn this exhibition structure into a site of accountability, a mortuary for the deaths of the plantations, and a tool for the restoration of art and earth. In the performance Ku Sambisama Ya Nso Ya Mpembe (The Judgment of the White Cube), featuring the late CATPC member Blaise Mandefu Ayawo in the role of the building’s lawyer and first shown on video at the Dutch pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, the collective puts the white cube on trial for injustices past and present.
Jordan Nassar on Palestinian embroidery and diasporic identity | UNDER THE COVER Artforum 2024-06-27 | “In a sense, I’ve always been making work that is about Palestine, how Palestinians have been treated, and what their reality is like,” writes Brooklyn-based artist Jordan Nassar in his portfolio of recent works about Gaza in the Summer issue. In the summer episode of “Under the Cover,” Nassar speaks with Artforum editor in chief Tina Rivers Ryan about the contradictions of diasporic identity, the nuances of his relation to traditional craftmaking, and the role of artists in continuing cultural legacies.Video production and edit: Brian J. GreenCinematography: Alexandra SappAssistant camera and sound: Agasha Irving
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy on the legacy of Vera Molnar Artforum 2024-05-30 | In this month’s episode of “Under the Cover,” Artforum’s West Coast editor Bryan Barcena speaks with artist and art historian Zsofi Valyi-Nagy about the pioneering computer artist Vera Molnar, who died last December at the age of ninety-nine.Valyi-Nagy discusses Molnar’s relationship to the computer as a tool, the impact on Molnar of experiencing a computer screen for the first time in the early 1970s, and the idea of “unimaginable images.”“Speak to the Eye,” a major exhibition of Molnar’s work, is on view at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, through August 26.Video production and edit: Brian J. GreenCinematography: Luke SargentAssistant camera and sound: Sam Ashrafuzzaman
Alicja Kwade on making art during COVID-19 lockdown | STUDIO VISITS Artforum 2024-05-23 | At the beginning of the pandemic in May 2020, Artforum invited Alicja Kwade for a virtual studio visit. Kwade walked us through her Oberschöneweide, Germany, studio, documenting the experience via her iPhone. Showcasing works in progress investigating “corona time,” Kwade visualizes the distorted hours of lockdown through experiments with fruit, clock arms, and candles. In this excerpt, Kwade demonstrates how to create a “quantum lemon,” or what she calls a “portrait of a piece of matter.” “Alicja Kwade and Agnes Martin: Space Between the Lines” is on view now at Pace gallery in Los Angeles, through June 29.
Yuan Goang-Ming’s The 561st hour of occupation | ARTISTS PROJECTS Artforum 2024-05-15 | In 2014, Taiwan’s then-ruling Kuomintang Party attempted to push through a Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement that would have increased trade relations with China, potentially leaving the island nation vulnerable to political pressure from Beijing. Taiwan’s parliament rushed to vote the agreement through without its first going through the process of review proposed by the opposing Democratic Progressive Party. This spurred a massive public protest, which culminated in university students occupying the legislative palace for nearly a month: 585 hours in total. The action was successful, in that it forced the government to table the agreement, and gave rise to further significant changes that have helped preserve Taiwan’s independence, sovereignty, and open political system in the intervening years. As its title suggests, Yuan Goang-ming’s work was filmed during The 561st Hour of Occupation. The work pays homage to the bravery of the students, whose action helped retain Taiwan’s status as the last remaining beacon for democracy in the Chinese-speaking world. This video, an excerpt from which appears here, was among the works presented by Yuan for his exhibition “Everyday War” at the Taiwan pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale.-Travis Jeppesen
Artist John Akomfrah on migration Artforum 2024-05-02 | In 2018, London-based British artist, film director, and writer John Akomfrah visited Artforum offices on the heels of three US solo shows—at the New Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, North Carolina. Talking with Lauren O’Neill-Butler, the artist declared: “Advancing industrial worlds seem to have a big problem with the three languages of migration, and this is something we really need to get right. Generally, one language is acknowledged in secret, and the other is disavowed. The first is the necessity of migration. It is absolutely critical.” At the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, where he represents Great Britain, the artist continues with his signature large-scale video works probing the connections between migration past and present, colonialism, and modern empire.#JohnAkomfrah#labiennale #venice
Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani on SpaghettiOs and total artistic freedom | UNDER THE COVER Artforum 2024-04-25 | Jamian Juliano-Villani’s 2019 painting Crunchie Boy, My Son graces the cover of Artforum’s April issue. Just days before the closing of her exhibition “It” at Gagosian, Artforum executive editor Lloyd Wise met with the artist to discuss the brand identity of SpaghettiOs, her Australian Shepard Tim, and importance of total artistic freedom.Video direction and edit: Brian J. GreenAssistant camera and sound: Agasha Irving
Dancer and choreographer Simone Forti on re-envisioning her relationship to art | ARTIST INTERVIEWS Artforum 2024-04-18 | Renowned artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer Simone Forti was interviewed at the Artforum offices in August 2022. On the occasion of Forti’s participation in the 2024 Venice Biennale, we revisit this talk in which she recalls her transition from Anna Halprin’s studio to Robert Dunn’s music composition class in 1959. She speaks about John Cage, her introduction to conceptual work, and re-envisioning her relationship to art, audience, and skill.Her work Huddle is being performed at Arsenale Sala d’Armi on April 17, 18, 19 and 20.
Joan Jonas on her 2015 Venice Biennale | ARTIST INTERVIEWS Artforum 2024-04-11 | The genre-bending performance and video artist Joan Jonas spoke with Artforum on the occasion of her exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale. In this exclusive interview, Jonas discusses her earliest experimentations with mirrors, remembers her days at Richard Bellamy’s Green Gallery in Manhattan, and reveals some of the intentions behind “They Come to Us without a Word,” her presentation at the United States pavilion. The artist’s retrospective, “Good Night Good Morning,” is on view until July 6, 2024, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Artist Paul Pfeiffer talks with Jan Tumlir about his MoCA retrospective | UNDER THE COVER Artforum 2024-03-28 | In the latest episode of “Under the Cover,” Artforum contributor Jan Tumlir interviews the multidisciplinary artist Paul Pfeiffer on the occasion of his first US retrospective, “Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom,” at the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA in Los Angeles. Tumlir, who considers Pfeiffer’s artistic output in the pages of the March issue, asks the artist about video looping and repetition, religion, and the artwork Vitruvian Figure, 2008, featured on this month’s cover.
Bruce LaBruce on Pier Paolo Pasolini and the making of his latest film Artforum 2024-03-19 | At the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, the Canadian filmmaker, writer, photographer, and artist Bruce LaBruce premiered his latest film, The Visitor, an epic reimagining and pornification of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 classic Teorema. To mark the occasion, Artforum.com senior editor Travis Jeppesen sat down with LaBruce in Berlin. Together, they discuss LaBruce’s earliest films, influences, and the relationship between politics and porn. In the March 2024 issue of Artforum, LaBruce contributes a Top Ten which includes Native American artist Nizhonniya Luxi Austin’s acting debut as Cara Durand in The Curse (2023–24); a call to free Palestine; plucky London-based publishing house Baron Books; Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude (“Probably my favorite living auteur,” writes LaBruce), and more.
Rachel Macleans Deepfake DUCK | ARTISTS PROJECTS Artforum 2024-03-04 | “If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and acts like a duck, then it is, most probably, a duck.” Of course, when it comes to the work of Scottish artist Rachel Maclean, deception is the delightful dish du jour, the crux upon which her green-screened worlds are so often built. One of the highlights of 2024’s International Film Festival Rotterdam was undoubtedly Maclean’s hilarious and bewildering video installation, DUCK, which features every James Bond throughout the franchise’s long history, as well as Marilyn Monroe—all played by Maclean herself, via the wonders of deepfake technology. In this exclusive excerpt for Artforum, we’re offered a tantalizing glimpse of the ways in which Maclean illuminates the potentialities of deepfake as a new medium alongisde this interview with Maclean by Oskar Oprey.-Travis Jeppesen
Marjorie Welish on design, semiotics, and modernist philosophy | UNDER THE COVER Artforum 2024-02-29 | In the February issue of Artforum, artist and critic Marjorie Welish shares a portfolio of works from the ongoing series “Indecidability of the Sign: Yellow/Black,” 2019–, with a written introduction by artist and curator Michelle Grabner. For this month’s episode of “Under the Cover," Artforum senior editor Alex Jovanovich talks with Welish about her work and the wide-ranging contexts in which it is created, touching on design, semiotics, and modernist philosophy.
Artist Joan Semmel on painting the aging body | Artist Interviews Artforum 2024-02-22 | In 2013, “Joan Semmel: A Lucid Eye,” the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, opened at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. To mark that occasion, Artforum joined Semmel in her Soho studio for a conversation about her life and work. Revisit the interview through the link in bio. In the February issue, Ida Panicelli reviews “Joan Semmel: Against the Wall” at New York’s Alexander Gray Associates, a recent show that featured new works in which the nonagenarian artist “acknowledges her own finitude, depicting herself in spaces that appear confined and simultaneously infinite.” “Joan Semmel has never displayed any embarrassment about portraying her own body, confronting without compromise all the subtle modifications wrought by age,” Panicelli writes. “Rejecting the classical and idealized concept of the female body, the artist shows us her flesh, genitals, and abundant breasts—she is not interested in the face but in skin, minus any frills—and returns us to our shared humanity.”
Molly Warnock on the lives of animals in Gilles Aillauds Paintings | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2024-02-15 | In what ways do Gilles Aillaud’s (1928-2005) paintings invite us to think about human subjectivity in relation to animal others? On the occasion of “Gilles Aillaud: Animal politique” (Political Animal), which is on view at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until February 26, 2024, art historian and critic Molly Warnock asks us to consider this question, and more, as it relates to animals in captivity.Departing from her February 2024 essay for Artforum, “The Lives of Animals: The art of Gilles Aillaud,” Warnock zooms in on three works of art —Rhinocéros, 1972, Rhinocéros, 1979, and Rhinocéros de dos, 1966—for the latest episode of “Interpretations.” Her analysis encourages us to take a deeper look at these depictions of an enormous animal, while contemplating its individuality, uniqueness, and the limiting architectures in which it lives.
Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) on writing for the Village Voice | Artist Interviews Artforum 2024-02-05 | Filmmaker, artist, poet, and self-described diarist, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) visited Artforum’s offices in 2017 to discuss “Movie Journal,” his seminal column for the Village Voice, written during the 1960s and ’70s, in which he assayed avant-garde film. This was the Voice’s first-ever column devoted to experimental cinema.#JonasMekas #ArtforumVideoArchive#Cinema#ExperimentalCinema#VillageVoice
Ann Nöel remembers Margaret Raspé (1933-2023) | UNDER THE COVER Artforum 2024-01-25 | In the January issue, Artforum pays tribute to the life of Margaret Raspé (1933–2023) with a portfolio of unpublished photographs documenting the Polish-born artist’s little-known performances and ephemeral actions of the 1980s. For this month’s episode of Under the Cover, executive editor Lloyd Wise speaks with the artist Ann Nöel, Raspé’s dear friend, about the circumstances of these works, and their early—and prophetic—engagement with nature as an artistic medium.
David Kennedy Cutler reflects on Francis Picabias La jeune fille (1920) | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2024-01-24 | In the latest episode of Interpretations, artist David Kennedy Cutler reflects on Francis Picabia’s La jeune fille, 1920, as interpreted by George Baker in The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007). Echoing Baker, Kennedy Cutler argues for a fresh look at Picabia’s provocative artwork, a century after its making, and reflects on the piece’s relevance to his Project for Artforum’s January issue.
Excerpts from an interview with Narcissister | Artist Interviews Artforum 2024-01-12 | In this 2018 interview from Artforum's video archive, Brooklyn-based artist Narcissister talks about her life and work, as well as her film, Narcissister Organ Player, which played at Film Forum.Video: Matthew Carlson
Agnès Varda (1928–2019) discusses her life and work | Artist Interviews Artforum 2023-12-27 | In this interview from 2017, renowned artist, film director, and photographer Agnès Varda (1928–2019) reflects on growing up in German-occupied Paris, being part of French New Wave cinema, meeting Andy Warhol, and more.Video: Matthew Carlson
Jordan Kantor on Manet/Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Artforum 2023-12-22 | For the end-of-year episode of “Under the Cover,” Artforum executive editor Lloyd Wise talks with artist Jordan Kantor about the blockbuster exhibition “Manet/Degas” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Together, they untangle the mystery of Edgar Degas’s Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet, 1868–69, and consider the impact of the Louvre on this generation of celebrated French artists.
Louise Nevelsons Influence on Black, queer, and feminist artists | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2023-10-26 | In the latest episode of “Interpretations,” Julia Bryan-Wilson names Louise Nevelson a drag mother for her influence on queer, feminist, and Black artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Deborah Kass, and Noah Purifoy.
Revolutionary Artist Emory Douglas on The Black Panther | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-10-25 | For the October episode, The Black Panther's minister of culture Emory Douglas talks with art historian Sampada Aranke about the inception of the Black Panther Newspaper, becoming the publications revolutionary artist, and creating the 1971 poster commemorating the life of “lil” Bobby Hutton, which appears on the cover of this month’s Artforum.
Hal Foster looks back at The Anti-Aesthetic | UNDER THE COVER Artforum 2023-09-28 | For the September issue, Hal Foster looks back at The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture , reflecting on all that’s changed in the forty years since the book’s publication. To mark the occasion, Artforum editor-in-chief David Velasco visits the celebrated critic at his home, where they discuss the volume’s successes and shortcomings and the future of art criticism.https://www.artforum.com/video/hal-fo...Video Direction / Edit: Brian J. GreenProduction Assistance: Eli Kernis
Linda Simpson on Valley of the Dolls | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2023-09-18 | For the third episode of “Interpretations,” New York City drag artist, performer, game-show hostess and downtown documentarian Linda Simpson, reflects on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel, Valley of the Dolls. Simpson confesses her love for classic novel and challenges Mark Robson's campy on screen adaptation from 1967.“Interpretations,” Artforum’s new video series, features celebrated critics, writers, and artists offering brief reflections on art and life. Contributors may set the record straight on their desired subjects, pose new questions about them, or simply find humor in the long-standing artistic and cultural tropes they inhabit.
Joan Kee imagines Afro Asia | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2023-08-24 | For the latest episode of “Interpretations,” Artforum contributing editor Joan Kee proposes an art history with Afro Asia at its center. Less a place than a provocation, Afro Asia, for Kee, can be prefigured in the rock sculptures of David Hammons and Lee Ufan, in Howardena Pindell’s response to Hokusai’s shapeshifting views of Mount Fuji, and in myriad other real and speculative encounters between artists counted among the global majority. Kee’s The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity (2023) is available now from University of California Press. “Interpretations,” Artforum’s new video series, features celebrated critics, writers, and artists offering brief reflections on art and life. Contributors may set the record straight on their desired subjects, pose new questions about them, or simply find humor in the long-standing artistic and cultural tropes they inhabit.Video Direction and Edit: Brian J. GreenCinematography: Alexandra Sapp
Joan Kee imagines Afro Asia | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2023-08-24 | Less a place than a provocation, Afro Asia, for Kee, can be prefigured in the rock sculptures of David Hammons and Lee Ufan, in Howardena Pindell’s response to Hokusai’s shapeshifting views of Mount Fuji, in Simone Leigh’s Black Buddha, and in myriad other real and speculative encounters between artists counted among the global majority. Kee’s The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity (2023) is available now from University of California Press.
hannah baer on AI, transformation, and nightlife Artforum 2023-06-29 | Artforum editor in chief David Velasco interviews writer and cover artist hannah baer about the origins of her AI-generated 2023 image nude deepfake, which appears on the cover of Artforum’s Summer issue. Together, they discuss the politics of trans visibility, the distinction between self-enhancement and self-transcendence, and the utopian possibilities unlocked in nightlife.hannah baer is a writer based in New York. She is the author of the memoir Trans Girl Suicide Museum.Producer / Editor: Brian J. GreenCinematographer: Alexandra Sapp and Brian J. Green
Interpreting Andy Warhol with Alex Jovanovich | INTERPRETATIONS Artforum 2023-06-23 | In the inaugural episode of “Interpretations,” Artforum reviews editor, Alex Jovanovich, remembers the first time he saw Andy Warhol on television as a Midwestern ten-year-old during a 1985 broadcast of The Love Boat (1976–1986). Jovanovich confesses that seeing Warhol in all his resplendent queerness gave him “a glimmer of hope.”“Interpretations,” Artforum's brand-new video series, features celebrated critics, writers, and artists offering brief reflections on art and life. Contributors may set the record straight on their desired subjects, pose new questions about them, or simply find humor in the long-standing artistic and cultural tropes they inhabit.Director and Editor: Brian J. Green
How Video Transformed the World | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-05-30 | Artforum editor in chief David Velasco visits Michelle Kuo, Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Stuart Comer, Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, both at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, to discuss “Signals: How Video Transformed the World.” Sondra Perry’s Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II, which is featured in the exhibition, appears on the cover of Artforum’s May issue. Producer / Editor: Brian J. GreenCamera / Sound: Agasha Irving and Brian J. Green
How Video Transformed the World | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-05-25 | Artforum editor in chief David Velasco visits Michelle Kuo, Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Stuart Comer, Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, both at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, to discuss “Signals: How Video Transformed the World.” Sondra Perry’s Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II, which is featured in the exhibition, appears on the cover of Artforum’s May issue. Producer / Editor: Brian J. GreenCamera / Sound: Agasha Irving and Brian J. Green
Josh Kline on the unfolding disasters of climate change and AI | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-05-03 | Artforum editor in chief David Velasco visits Josh Kline at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art to discuss “Project for a New American Century,” his first institutional survey in the US. Kline, whose work graces the cover of the April issue, reflects on his world-building art, the unfolding disasters of climate change and AI, and why he still sees the future as a place of hope.In the April issue: Colby Colby Chamberlain on the art of Josh Kline.https://www.artforum.com/print/202304...“Under the Cover” is a monthly web series that features the artists whose work is celebrated in the magazine.Producer / Editor: Brian J. GreenCinematography: Alexandra Sapp and Brian J. Green#shorts #youtubeshorts #Art #artforum #museum #newyork #ai #artificialintelligence
Josh Kline on the unfolding disasters of climate change and AI | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-04-27 | Artforum editor in chief David Velasco visits Josh Kline at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art to discuss “Project for a New American Century,” his first institutional survey in the US. Kline, whose work graces the cover of the April issue, reflects on his world-building art, the unfolding disasters of climate change and AI, and why he still sees the future as a place of hope.In the April issue: Colby Colby Chamberlain on the art of Josh Kline.artforum.com/print/202304/colby-chamberlain-on-the-art-of-josh-kline-90276“Under the Cover” is a monthly web series that features the artists whose work is celebrated in the magazine.Producer / Editor: Brian J. GreenCinematography: Alexandra Sapp and Brian J. Green
Amy Taubin on Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967) | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-03-23 | Amy Taubin talks with Artforum editor in chief David Velasco about Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967), from its making and meanings to her own role in this revelatory fixture of avant-garde film. Plus: the story behind why “Strawberry Fields Forever” makes a musical cameo.“Under the Cover” is a monthly web series that features the artists whose work is celebrated in the magazine.Camera: Brian J. Green and Alexandra SappEdit: Brian J. Green
Amia Srinivasan and Paul Chan | Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists Artforum 2023-02-23 | Philosopher and writer Amia Srinivasan meets with artist Paul Chan for the latest episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists. Together they contemplate fate, the distortion of reality caused by screens, their first experiences with philosophy, and making meaning through their respective disciplines. Chan’s exhibition “Breathers” is currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis through July 16. Amia’s latest book, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, is out now with Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States.Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously she was an associate professor of philosophy at St John’s College, Oxford, and before that a lecturer in philosophy at University College London. She completed a BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford, and before that a BA at Yale. Srinivasan works on topics in political philosophy, epistemology, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy. Her first book, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, was published in 2021. It was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, winner of the Blackwell’s Book of the Year, and has been shortlisted for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell Prize. Srinivasan is currently finishing a second book, on the practice of critical genealogy, entitled The Contingent World: Genealogy, Epistemology, Politics.Paul Chan lives and works in New York. Chan was recently named a 2022 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. “Breathers,” a major solo exhibition of his recent practice, is currently on view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, through July 16, 2023, and will travel to the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Richmond (2023), and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2024). Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2020, 2019, 2017); Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (2018); the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2017); Deste Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra (2015); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015), among others. The 2014 recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize, Chan cocurated the exhibition “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection” (2019) and in 2007 collaborated with Creative Time and The Classical Theatre of Harlem to stage a site-specific presentation of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans. His work is in the collections of museums and institutions worldwide.
Alex Katz on his Guggenheim retrospective | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-02-14 | Artforum editor in chief David Velasco joins Alex Katz in his Manhattan studio to discuss the making of “Alex Katz: Gathering,” a career retrospective at New York’s Guggenheim Museum encompassing eight decades of the artist’s masterful production. Katz also reflects on his first paintings of Ada, his friendship with Frank O’Hara, and more. Ada’s Black Sandals, 1987, graces the cover of the February issue.Also in this issue: Four painters—Sam McKinniss, Amy Sillman, Jamian Juliano-Villani, and David Salle—reflect on the legacy of this unflagging paragon of technique and style.Producer / Editor: Brian J. GreenCinematographer: Alexandra Sapp + Brian J. Green
Roe Ethridge and Jamieson Webster: Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists Artforum 2023-01-26 | Photographer Roe Ethridge and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discuss hysteria and mysticism, desire and repulsion, Florida and the American unconscious for the January episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists. Their conversation marks the publication of American Polychronic, the artist’s first comprehensive monograph out from Mack Books, as well as his exhibition of the same name, on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery through February 18 and Gagosian in New York though February 25. Webster and Ethridge also reflect on their collaboration Bad Flowers, created during the early stages of the pandemic for Spike Art Magazine. You can listen to the full conversation on Artforum.com artforum.com/video/roe-ethridge-and-jamieson-webster-90025“Artists on Writers | Writers On Artists” brings together luminaries in the fields of art and literature for freeform, intimate conversations about the subjects that they wish to talk about.Roe Ethridge is an artist and commercial photographer in New York City. Blurring the lines between the two, Ethridge creates images that are simultaneously generic and intimate, often treading between glamor and irony. His work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; SFMoMA, San Francisco; S.M.A.K., Ghent; the Tate Modern, London; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others.Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2011) and Conversion Disorder (Columbia University Press, 2018); she also co-wrote, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon, 2013). She contributes regularly to Artforum, Spike Art Magazine, Apology and the New York Review of Books. Her most recent book, Sex and Disorganisation is available now with Divided Publishing.
Tania Candiani on reimagining the United States–Mexico border | Under the Cover Artforum 2023-01-25 | In the January episode of Under the Cover, Tania Candiani talks to Artforum editor in chief David Velasco about her portraits of women protestors from around the world, working in community, and reimagining the United States–Mexico border. Candiani’s Cierre Libertad (Securing Libertad), 2008, graces the cover of the January issue of the magazine.Also in this issue, “Stitching the Battlegrounds,” Michael Dango’s essay on the art of Tania Candiani.
Nan Goldin on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Under the Cover Artforum 2022-12-22 | In this episode of Under the Cover, Nan Goldin talks about photography, vulnerability, and friendship to Artforum editor in chief David Velasco on the occasion of Laura Poitras’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which delves into Goldin’s career as well as her activism as a founder of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now). As Christopher Glazek writes in his essay “What It Takes” in Artforum’s December issue, “Goldin has rewritten the textbook on reform movements, and it won’t be surprising if her name one day features as the answer to a multiple-choice question on an AP US history exam.”Camera: Brian J. Green and Alexandra SappEdit: Brian J. GreenTitle Sequence Music: David O'Neill
Rob Reynolds and Sam Lipsyte: Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists Artforum 2022-12-22 | Author Sam Lipsyte first met artist Rob Reynolds decades ago as undergraduates at Brown University, after which they moved to New York, played together in the noise-punk band Dungbeetle and have remained friends ever since. On the occasion of Lipsyte’s newest novel No One Left to Come Looking for You (Simon & Schuster), the two talk about art, literature, and music, and how such things actually get made in this world.This episode of “Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists” is sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).Artists on Writers, Writers On Artists brings together luminaries in the fields of art and literature for freeform, intimate conversations about the subjects that they wish to talk about. Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark, The Ask (a New York Times Notable Book), The Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Believer Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories, among other places. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.Rob Reynolds received his B.F.A. from Brown University, and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Reynolds’s work is in the public collections of LACMA, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the R.I.S.D. Museum, Brown University, and numerous private collections. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Nina Katchadourian and James Hannaham: Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists Artforum 2022-11-16 | For our November episode of Artists on Writers, Writers on Artists, writer James Hannaham and artist Nina Katchadourian cover many subjects including what it’s like to observe and experience change—whether that’s the changes to a city, or to neighborhood. James talks about infusing fictions with the textures of real life, and Nina addresses what it means to survive the unsurvivable, asking questions about what humans are capable of living beyond, or living with.Artists on Writers, Writers On Artists brings together luminaries in the fields of art and literature for freeform, intimate conversations about the subjects that they wish to talk about. This monthly series is a co-production of Artforum and Bookforum magazines.James Hannaham is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His novel Delicious Foods (Back Bay Books, 2015) won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was named one of Publishers Weekly’s top ten books of the year. His debut novel, God Says No (Grove Press, 2009), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He cofounded the New York–based performance group Elevator Repair Service and worked with them between 1992 and 2002. Hannaham is a professor in the writing program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His latest book, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, is now out with Little Brown and Company.Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. A solo museum survey of her work titled “Curiouser” opened at the Blanton Museum in 2017 and traveled to the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University and the BYU Art Museum; the accompanying monograph is available from Tower Books. Katchadourian’s work is public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Katchadourian lives and works between Brooklyn, New York, and Berlin, and is a Clinical Full Professor on the faculty of NYU Gallatin. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery.
