“We as artists have to find the way how to confront the state and capitalism.”
Santiago Sierra is Spain’s most well-known international artist. To some, his work is polemic; to others, it is pertinent, but it does not leave anyone indifferent. It reflects on the contradictions and paradoxes of the capitalist system, of which [...]

Bojana Pejić (ed.), Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Cologne: Walter König, 2009. ISBN 9783902490575
By Mirjam Westen
In 1968 Polish artist Maria Pininska-Beres made “The Psycho Furniture” series, soft organic formed sculptures in pink colors, arousing an air of joyful and erotic femininity. Her compatriot Natalia LL challenged around the same [...]

By Michele Robecchi
Undisputable geniality and stunning longevity were two of the main ingredients that made Frank Lloyd Wright reach his legendary status, yet there was a time, in the mid-1920s, when the life of the man whose work would revolutionize architecture as we know it, seriously hit the skids. Self-exiled in Wisconsin, and [...]

By Barry Schwabsky
“Each writer creates his precursor,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges. “His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future”(365). Likewise with painters. And one reason why Melvin Martínez counts as a painter is that he is showing us, in a new way, why Jackson Pollock still matters. [...]

For over a decade, The Yes Men (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) have been engaged in an extended campaign

Nowadays political art is a fashionable label, and many practices want to present themselves as such. Art becomes a space for protest, but at the same time any critical power that it may have is co-opted in a kind of protective environment where everything can be said, but where everything is tightly controlled.
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By Paco Barragán
I remember reading Culture of Complaint by Robert Hughes sometime toward the end of the 90s.1 It’s still a very valid working title with an interesting perspective on American society by a still well-known Australian arts writer-his interviews on YouTube with Ronald Lauder and the Mugravi are a must see.
Witty, ironic, [...]

A Conversation between Tim White-Sobieski and Hans Op de Beeck
Visual artists Tim White-Sobieski (USA) and Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium) have accepted ARTPULSE’s invitation to discuss their new media and film practices and the challenges of both current technology and the art market.

A Conversation between Marisa Jahn and Joseph del Pesco
On the occasion of the launching of Byproduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices, published by YYZ BOOKS and REV, we have invited the editor, artist, and writer Marisa Jahn, and Joseph del Pesco, Program Director of Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, one of the [...]

Peter Boswell has been Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator at the Miami Art Museum since 1999. Prior to the Miami Art Museum, Boswell served as Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome (1996-1999) and as a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1986-1996). He has a B.A. from the University of [...]

Christiane Paul is the Director of the Media Studies Graduate Programs at The New School, NY, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her recent books are Digital Art (2003/2008), New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (2008) and Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media [...]