Bruce Nauman: The Man Who Would Not be King
Nauman has cut his own path and taken it at his own pace. And while he is among the most respected artists internationally, he is as quintessentially American as Pollock or Warhol.
By Robert Storr Ragnar Kjartansson
What do you do with a drunken painter?
By Jeff Byles UAE Pavilion
Curator Tirdad Zolghadr talks about the first Gulf states pavilion, featured artist Lamya Gargash, and the future of the UAE.
By Lyra Kilston
Mark Lewis
Mark Lewis’s film work has returned to the problem of modernity, to the dilemma of its irretrievable pastness on the one hand and its continued centrality to thought about art and politics on the other.
By Laura Mulvey In this special edition, Modern Painters focuses on four Venice Biennale artists whose contributions all seem to question their role as artist-ambassador.
By Christopher Turner
Read the Letter Annette Kelm
Aernout Mik
Sophie Calle
Betsabée Romero
Luke Fowler
Vaslav Nijinsky's Eye
The University of Trash
Several Silences
Sergei Eisenstei
Getting to the heart of God's bottom
What is the essence of meaning today? A new show enlightens us.
By Matthew Collings
History Painting
Kerry James Marshall attacks America's founding fathers.
By Miranda Mellis
New Medici
Curators Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami talk about organizing an exhibition of François Pinault's holdings of contemporary art, one of the most comprehensive private collections in the world.
By Claire Barliant
Celebrity Files
John Stezaker has a beautiful collection of antique postcards, publicity shots, and secondhand books, which he destroys to make his iconoclastic collages.
By Martin Herbert
Double Vision
The eye-bending world of the Oakes Brothers.
By Sasha Archibald
Lunchtime
Filmmakers sing for their supper.
By Lyra Kilston
Putrid Beauty
Glenn Brown distorts the art historical canon.
By Sarah Kent
Gilded Demons
The Pakistan-based artist Khadim Ali’s miniature paintings draw on ancient myths to elucidate. contemporary struggles.
By Jemima Montagu
Piero Manzoni
Larry Poons
The Paper Exhibition
Lead Pencil Studio
Vides. Une Retrospective
Goshka Macuga
Lynette Wallworth
Roni Horn

"Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art"
Design historian Norman Hathaway has resurrected the airbrush art movement and four of its masters for a vibrantly illustrated book that reads like a love poem to the halcyon days — and amphetamine-fueled nights — of 1970s Los Angeles.
By Hrag Vartanian Ori Gersht puts five questions to David Claerbout
The artists talk about new technologies and
perception of time.