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A Foreigner Called Picasso
Cocurator of the exhibition A Foreigner Called Picasso, at Gagosian, New York, Annie Cohen-Solal writes about the genesis of the project, her commitment to the figure of the outsider, and Picasso’s enduring relevance to matters geopolitical and sociological.
Brice Marden
Larry Gagosian celebrates the unmatched life and legacy of Brice Marden.
This Is Hardcore: Pulp, and the Making of an Image
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of This Is Hardcore, the sixth album by the band Pulp. A new book by Paul Burgess and Louise Colbourne celebrates the occasion by bringing together behind-the-scenes imagery and anecdotes from the creation of the album and its music videos. Author Young Kim reflects on the album’s impact, both musical and visual, on the late ’90s and speaks with the primary collaborators—Pulp lead singer Jarvis Cocker, art director Peter Saville, and artist John Currin—behind the iconic imagery.
Deutschland 83: Recollections of a Curator
Forty years ago, Richard Calvocoressi made a temporary move to Berlin as part of his role as a curator at the Tate, London. There he was able to observe and encounter the city’s evolving art world. He now reflects on that time and on the artists who were revolutionizing aesthetics in the fraught years preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Road Opens: In Conversation with Okwui Okpokwasili
Multidisciplinary artist Okwui Okpokwasili’s new work adaku, part 1: the road opens is a continuation of her efforts to bring West African forms of dance, poetry, song, and theater into a contemporary framework. Catching up with Okpokwasili after the work’s premiere in Los Angeles this past spring, Rennie McDougall traces adaku’s artistic lineages ahead of its New York debut in the fall.
Screen Time: A Conversation with Neil Leach
Ashley Overbeek speaks with architect and theorist Neil Leach about the light and dark sides of artificial intelligence shaping our built environment.
Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now
To celebrate the publication of Phaidon’s new, expansive survey, we share an excerpt from Raphael Fonseca’s introduction and a few of the more than three hundred artists featured.
Tombs of Beauty
Mike Stinavage talks to director Alice Rohrwacher about her latest film, La Chimera, which premiered at Cannes in the spring and will screen at the New York Film Festival in October 2023.
M+
M+, Hong Kong, Asia’s largest museum of modern and contemporary art, opened to the public in November 2021 in a building designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Vicky Richardson, Head of Architecture and Heinz Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, visited as the city opened to international visitors after three years of isolation.