Olafur Eliasson’s Art of Playful Seriousness
From now until 5 January 2020 at the Tate Modern: a mid-career survey of the works of Olafur Eliasson: life-size encounters that engage and confound the senses to trigger what can only be called “experiences.”
Too Tired for Sunshine: An Interview with Tara Wray
"There are definitely days when I don’t have the energy, and today is a day I’m struggling. [...] It really is fighting every day and the project gives me something to fight for in a productive way that’s bigger than myself, which seems to be good for me."—Tara Wray, in our interview about the Too Tired Project.
Creative Potential
In Becoming Creative, Juniper Hill speaks to musicians in Los Angeles, Cape Town and Helsinki about their personal histories, experiences, and viewpoints to trace patterns of creation.
A Nude by Any Other Name
The female nude: a genre of photography that is heavily tried and ambiguously true. Women photographers have tried to reclaim authorship of the female experience through their work, but is it possible to be naked without being nude?
Unprepossessed: Zanele Muholi’s self-ownership
In the photobook Somnyama Ngonyama, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi creates an identity, performs an identity, dismantles an identity, confronts with identity.
Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity
I'm happy to announce my new book: Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity.
The Art of Computation: An Interview with Philipp Schmitt
"Computers can learn from examples how to recognize something. [...]This is one way that you can form the concept of an apple, although it has nothing to do with an apple. An algorithm will never bite an apple, or taste one, or pick one from a tree."—Philipp Schmitt, in our interview about his new book Computed Curation.
Virgin Territory: Discovering the Unknown
Ancient maps marked the accomplishments of discoverers, documenting the world as known thus far, the boundaries of which were marked…
Artists as Adventurers: An Interview with Ruben Jacobs
"I saw, in all these different practices, some kind of artistic creature who uses science but also design and technology to re-investigate the relationship with the Earth."—Ruben Jacobs, in our interview about his new book Artonauts.
The Intensity of Exposure
The thing about being born a human is that none of us get out alive. Some of us spend our…