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The artist, whose exhibition “Timelapse” is at the Guggenheim, would invite Stein to dinner with Cervantes and Murasaki Shikibu: “Stein might instigate a … debate on the origin of the modern novel.”
In Arts magazine from 1976 to 1990 critic, art historian, and onetime Artforum contributing editor Robert Pincus-Witten's vivid and frequently contentious missives recorded his comings and goings in the overheated art world of the ’80s. Beginning in this issue Artforum reprises the name and spirit of Pincus-Witten’s column with “Entries,” contributing editor David Rimanelli's new monthly diary chronicling his own adventures in the world of art today.MARCH 14JULIAN SCHNABEL opens at Gagosian. A jolly, gaudy, back-to-the-’80s affair. Pretty people, ornate people, ridiculously...
PROBABLY THE OBSERVATION by Virginia Overton cited most often by writers came on the occasion of her 2013 exhibition at Switzerland’s Kunsthalle Bern. Wishing to tease out the artist’s thoughts on the found objects used for her sculpture, the exhibition’s curator, Fabrice Stroun, asked a relatively straightforward—if historically loaded—question: Is “a piece of wood looked at in a space consecrated for art . . . no longer the same piece of wood found on the side of the road”? It’s a reasonable line of inquiry, particularly given that Overton’s work suggests some nominal under...
1IN A WORLD WHERE CONTINGENCY has never loomed larger, why not begin with a book found lying on the street? At the beginning of autumn, which seemed like nothing but an extension of a hot, dread-filled summer, I came across a copy of Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia on the sidewalk. When I began flipping through it that evening, I found something completely different from what I had expected. Far from page after numbing page elaborating theoretical constructs, Minima Moralia is a collection of hot takes: short, numbered prose pieces, rarely more than a few pages, that are sharp, grouchy, ridd...
Hans Ulrich Obrist reflects on the legacy of philosopher Édouard Glissant, whose unrealized ideas offer a possible path for the future.