I know you came out to California, specifically Santa Cruz, from Oklahoma with your family a few times beginning in 1949, but it seems that …

Vito Acconci shouldn’t need any introduction. His body of work is so extensive and influence so widespread it renders recapitulation redundant. That said, it can …

Tom Sachs is an American artist, based in New York City, with a talent for putting unlikely things together with a deep antipathy to verisimilitude. …

In a remarkable photograph from 1926 in the Security Pacific National Bank Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library, two workers dressed in dapper hats, …

This interview was originally published in SFAQ issue 11 (November 2012–January 2013). In 1968 Paula Cooper opened the first commercial gallery below Houston Street in …

Repression Breeds Resistance January 16th, 1970 Huey Newton In Conversation With Sechaba*   Mr. Newton, welcome back from jail and thank you for granting us this interview. …

In Part One: Collecting, Compiling & the Construction of Cultural Histories, it was noted that artists often find it difficult to retain and manage accumulated …

It has long been established that digital networks radicalized the ways in which contemporary moving-image and media artworks are distributed. Even before YouTube, network technology …

In early 2015, I approached Laura Owens about doing an exhibition of new work at the Wattis Institute. The Wattis, I remember telling her, would …

Last year during the holiday season I sat in my family’s living room browsing Facebook on my iPhone while passively experiencing my brother’s Call of …

“Everything here is built to scale,” I’m told, standing before a haul truck approximately the size of a two-story house. The person telling me this …

For the past year, Jordan Casteel, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, and EJ Hill have occupied the studios on the third floor of the Studio Museum in Harlem, …

This interview was originally published in SFAQ issue 9 (May–July 2012). I wanted to meet Anna Halprin due to my interest in Fluxus. George Maciunas, …

Uwe Frank Laysiepen, known as Ulay, is unarguably one of the foremost photographers and performance artists of our time. However, although critically acclaimed, until recently …

This interview was originally published in SFAQ issue 9 (May–July 2012). She arrives about an hour late, dressed in all black except for a denim …

This is a companion piece to “Sprint Stories and the New Alchemy: Magic and Economy in Late Capitalism,” where I argued that in our moment …

Living in Cambodia, I am sometimes offered brides. I go to eat dinner at a food stand and the owner suggests I meet her daughter, …

The fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent famously quipped that “fashions fade, style is eternal.” This enigmatic statement does much to elucidate the powerful place that …

Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, developed an interest in Bruce Conner’s work soon after relocating to …

Style Wars aims to appreciate how critical considerations of style can offer an opportunity to think across subjectivities and cultural practices that are often disassociated …