Shuang Li’s work Lord of the Flies—which accompanies one of two cover stories in this spring issue—was performed in Shanghai in January 2022. Twenty performers, trained remotely by the artist, were tasked with embodying the sense ... Read more →

Deliberately without a title or apparent orientation, this issue, arriving at the turn of the year, accompanies a time of profound ecological, social, and technological transition. Despite the necessity and hope for a return to a ... Read more →

This issue inaugurating the fall season aims to reflect and expand on the concept of biodiversity in nowadays’ visual arts. Over the past hundred years or so, artists and scientists have come to follow increasingly common ... Read more →

In this issue, writer and philosopher Federico Campagna, in a surprisingly conversation with Andrea Bellini about the end of the world, explains that a world is a “‘likely story’ about reality” and that “after a while, ... Read more →

Over the past year, we have begun to notice a change in how our feelings manifest—from genuine physical sensations to cognitive gestures informed by geopolitics. It’s hard to define these new feelings, but they are embodied ... Read more →

The concepts of biopower and biopolitics are now used extensively by political theorists. They refer to the broad field in which biological factors are drawn into the social domain as targets of political intervention and sites ... Read more →

After more than 50 years of history, Flash Art is ready for reinvention. Starting with this issue, Flash Art will become a seasonal publication. It has doubled its page count and contents to offer readers a more in-depth, discursive experience. A ... Read more →

This recent times, often overlapping events that have transpired, have suddenly been cast in a new perspective as people around the world have come together, both physically and online, to protest systemic racial injustice. This summer ... Read more →

“How do you begin to depict a feeling?” Describing her practice, artist Dana Schutz says that this is the question she continually tries to answer. In these very delicate times, it is a question we must ... Read more →

Today’s image consumption has become a primal, even nurturing aspect of our daily life. Whether originating from commercial or private streams of communications, we ingest and recirculate images incessantly. Yet the meaning of each image is ... Read more →

This season has seen a renewed and overwhelming interest in works engaging corporality, gesture, theatricality, or dance—works that in the visual arts we tend to group under the rubric “performance.” When we think of a work ... Read more →

“…the purported cause of such unconstitutional police stops, which may lead to a fatal incident, is an officer reporting a supposedly non-functioning rear taillight as a pretext to stop a civilian motorist…” These last few months of ... Read more →

The summer issue of Flash Art is an attempt to map the ecological breakdown that is restructuring our belief systems, forcing us to conceive of new relational modes that reappraise our centrality in the world and ... Read more →

This issue of Flash Art dedicates a ten-page dossier to the career of the Damascus-born artist Simone Fattal. The cover is a previously unpublished project specially conceived by the artist for the magazine. Ala Younis retraces various aspects of ... Read more →

Deep currents of inheritance, nostalgia, presence, and nonlinear time buoy this issue of Flash Art, the first of 2019. Readers can find personal remembrances of Etel Adnan among the three texts that compose a special dossier devoted ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the November–January issue of Flash Art is now out. Bodily figuration features prominently in this issue of Flash Art, which includes Judy Chicago’s Immolation (1972) from her “Women and Smoke” series (1968–74) on its cover. The work ... Read more →

Flash Art Books is pleased to announce States of tension, an English monograph on the work of Chinese artist Hu Xiaoyuan, featuring an essay by Nicolas Bourriaud and a conversation between Gea Politi and the artist. A panel discussion between the authors will be presented at Westbund Art ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the September–October issue of Flash Art is out now. The cover of this issue of Flash Art portrays Tony Conrad, an avant-garde filmmaker, pioneering musician, artist, theorist, philosopher, committed teacher, and ... Read more →

The cover of this issue features an early work by Jutta Koether, a central figure in the recent history of painting and the subject of a survey exhibition opening later this month at Museum Brandhorst, Munich. ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the January–February issue of Flash Art International is out now. The cover story of this issue is dedicated to the New York–based fashion label Telfar. Founded in 2005 by Liberian American ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the January–February issue of Flash Art International is out now. The cover story of this issue is dedicated to the New York–based fashion label Telfar. Founded in 2005 by Liberian American ... Read more →

“April 1967. Rome, Via Fontana Liri, 27. In a suburban apartment Flash Art is born, the fruit of wild ideas, impossible-seeming dreams and obsessive lucubrations, all shared with a group of frustrated artists and critics just ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the September–October issue of Flash Art International is out now. This issue of Flash Art serves as a window on developments in the field of artificial intelligence. It therefore sits ... Read more →

Flash Art International is pleased to announce the digitisation of the last ten years of the magazine. It is now possible to browse the main features of all issues published between 2007 and 2017 by visiting the Archive ... Read more →

Flash Art Books is pleased to announce that the catalog of Aperto ’93: Emergency / Emergenza—the first Biennial exhibition to be conceived both as an art magazine and as a full-scale exhibition within an exhibition—is now available ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the June–July–August edition of Flash Art International is out now. Having founded her label Comme des Garçons in 1969, Rei Kawakubo is only the second living designer (after Yves Saint ... Read more →

May 2017 We are pleased to announce that the May edition of Flash Art International is out now. The issue’s cover is dedicated to the late Italian artist Maria Lai, whose work is on display at ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce the release of PROVOCATEUR, the first English monograph on the work of Chinese artist Zhao Zhao, featuring essays by Hou Hanru and Li Zhenhua. It will be presented at Art Basel Hong Kong ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the March–April issue of Flash Art International is out now. Discussing the painting practice of Kerry James Marshall with Hans Ulrich Obrist, fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner cites Marshall’s intention to ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the January–February 2017 issue of Flash Art International is out now.  While reviewing past issues of Flash Art, we stumbled upon an article by British artist Victor Burgin discussing the ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the November–December issue of Flash Art International is out now. This issue explores the interfaces between clubs, clubbing culture and creative communities. The issue is built on two mirroring trajectories. The ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the September–October 2016 issue of Flash Art International is out now.  This issue’s cover reproduces a painting by African American artist Kerry James Marshall, a work that exemplifies the artist’s ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the June–July–August issue of Flash Art International is out now. In this issue we have decided to approach art via alternative means and focus on fiction.  As art writers and ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the May 2016 issue of Flash Art International is out now. Following the death of Italian novelist, semiologist and philosopher Umberto Eco, this issue takes as its point of departure questions ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the March–April issue of Flash Art International is out now. This issue offers an exploration of art production in contemporary Shanghai through the lens of the persistently evasive concept of ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the January–February 2016 issue of Flash Art International is out now. This issue introduces Emily Segal as our newly appointed Editor-at-Large and Cyril Duval as Special Projects Coordinator. This issue’s ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the November–December issue of Flash Art International is out now. This issue of Flash Art considers the revitalization of pastoral narratives in contemporary art and recent artist contributions to radical theories ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the October issue of Flash Art International is out now. Coinciding with the opening of UH-OH, Frances Stark’s mid-career retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the new issue ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the July–August–September issue of Flash Art International is out now.  In this issue, we delve into the appropriationist, realist and photorealist tendencies that characterize the practices of several emerging figurative ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the May–June 2015 issue of Flash Art International is out now. In this issue: Martine Syms sits in conversation with Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines. “The question of what is black art is ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the March–April 2015 issue of Flash Art International is out now. In this issue: Venus Lau explores how the new political understanding of land in China gives rise to a type of ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the January–February 2015 Issue of Flash Art International, a special edition celebrating the art scene in São Paulo, is out now.  In this issue:  In conversation with Bruno Dunley, Adriano ... Read more →

Flash Art International is delighted to announce a newly redesigned website. The new Flash Art website maintains the vibrancy and focus of the print edition, yet also features daily updates and insights about upcoming events, exhibition reviews, ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the November–December 2014 issue of Flash Art International is out now. In this issue:  He Jing hosts a roundtable with Li Shurui, Wang Guangle and Xie Molin about physicality and ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the October 2014 issue of Flash Art International is out now. This issue includes a special 40-page supplement which focuses on relationships across art and fashion. Included are conversations between ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the July–August–September 2014 issue of Flash Art International is out now. In this issue: Karen Archey discusses the daily celebration of life and love in the work of Dorothy Iannone. “For Iannone, it ... Read more →

We are pleased to announce that the May–June 2014 issue of Flash Art International, featuring the Top 100 Galleries selected by artists, is now available. In this issue: Kevin McGarry looks into the critically engaged, distanced and prolific ... Read more →

We are glad to announce that Flash Art International March–April 2014 issue is now out. In this issue:Peter Halley talks with Rafael de Cárdenas about the trend-setting indie magazine INDEX.“When I started INDEX with Bob Nickas in 1996, ... Read more →

The January–February issue of Flash Art International celebrates the art scene in Los Angeles. In concomitance with Singapore Biennale 2013 and Art Stage Singapore, this issue includes the SINGAPORE Flash Art Survey, a 24-page insert dedicated to ... Read more →

FEATURESKlaus Biesenbach, director of MoMA PS1 and MoMA curator at large, interviews British artist Ed Atkins, whose videos—mixing stock images with new material he creates with his laptop—have quickly become the manifesto of his generation. In conjunction ... Read more →

NEWSHelena Kontova interviews Tan Boon Hui, project director and co–curator of the 4th edition of the Singapore Biennale, featuring this year a team of 27 curators; Flash Art sets its office on the train of Station to ... Read more →

Since September 6, Flash Art joined Station to Station, a project conceived by Doug Aitken. The magazine is on board the train crossing the US through September 28. Our editors and special guests are documenting every pivotal ... Read more →

FeaturesThe summer issue of Flash Art International continues its ongoing investigation of painting, the medium’s legacy and current developments; also in this issue we showcase the art scene in Asia, one of the most exciting and ... Read more →

Flash Art International May–June features two covers—Andra Ursuta and Gelitin NewsIn London, Agnieszka Gratza reviews Charles Atlas‘s installation MC9 as part of the BMW Tate Live Series which is now in its second year. Sofía Hernández Chong ... Read more →

Flash Art International March–April features two covers—Olaf Breuning and Alex Katz.  NewsIn this issue, Flash Art International takes a look back at Alex Katz’s 60-year career on the eve of his four major exhibitions opening in Europe this ... Read more →

We are thrilled to announce that for the March/April 2013 issue, Flash Art International will feature a brand new design—a clean and fresh look accompanied by new features and ideas. Flash Art will maintain the strong content ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage with this digital platform, the new Flash Art iPad app now also supports iPad 3 retina display, bookmarks of your favorite articles, and social media sharing. Available to download ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage with this digital platform, the new Flash Art iPad app now also supports iPad 3 Retina Display, bookmarks of your favorite articles, and social media sharing. Available to download ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage with this digital platform, the new Flash Art iPad app now also supports iPad 3 retina display, bookmarks of your favorite articles, and social media sharing. Available to download ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage with this digital platform, the new Flash Art iPad app now also supports iPad 3 retina display, bookmarks of your favorite articles, and social media sharing. Available to download ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage with this digital platform, the new Flash Art iPad app now also supports iPad 3 retina display, bookmarks of your favorite articles, and social media sharing. Available to download ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage with this digital platform, Flash Art’s latest edition features new and exclusive interactive content. This time around, we bring you even more images, videos, slide shows and audio clips ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage this digital platform, Flash Art’s latest edition features new and exclusive interactive content. This time around, we bring you even more images, videos, slide shows and audio clips you ... Read more →

The first contemporary art magazine to engage this digital platform, Flash Art’s latest edition features new and exclusive interactive content. This time around, we bring you even more images, videos, slide shows and audio clips you ... Read more →

Ready to leap into the fall art season? Flash Art has got you covered. Our October issue for iPad is available on iTunes App Store. This engaging digital version of the world’s leading art magazine features ... Read more →

Our Summer issue is finally out. This time we decided to focus especially on the extra and interactive content. By adding great amount of extra images, exclusive videos, slide shows and panoramic views, we want you ... Read more →

Flash Art International No. 278 May June Issue 2011 www.flashartonline.com Flash Art International 278 features two covers:Lygia Clark and Thomas Hirschhorn   News Highlights: Matthew Schum on Artur Barrio, in anticipation of the artist representing Brazil at the forthcoming Venice BiennaleLuis Pérez-Oramas ... Read more →

March April Issue 2011 www.flashartonline.com Flash Art International is out with two covers: a special project by James Franco and Francesco Vezzoli, and Natalie Portman wearing Rodarte‘s Black Swan costume. Highlights from the news section: interviews with Rasha Salti ... Read more →

www.flashartonline.com Flash Art is out with three covers by Tadeusz Kantor, Taryn Simon and Fabio Mauri. Highlights from the news section: an interview with Mike Kelley about Mobile Homestead, the artist’s first public art project; reviews of the ... Read more →

www.flashartonline.com Flash Art is out with three covers by Elad Lassry, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Blinky Palermo. The news section’s highlights are: “Manifesta 08,” where Giancarlo Politi interviews Manifesta’s Founding Director Hedwig Fijen; “Greater New York 2010” reviewed by ... Read more →

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Flash Art International No.271 March April 2010 http://www.flashartonline.com Flash ... Read more →

Issue No.270 January – February 2010 http://www.flashartonline.com In this issue’s news: Nicola Trezzi reviews Performa 09, the big performative event that ... Read more →

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