Garrett Bradley

Nov 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley

I MET LEE UFAN in Venice this past spring. I was coming from Berlin, where I’d just seen his retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart. That show—a sweep through five decades of stimulating, philosophically inclined sculpture and painting—began with Lee’s early Relatum sculptures of the late 1960s (Relatum is the title he gives all his sculptures), moving through the thick, minerally strokes of his “From Point” and “From Line” paintings of ca.

Nov 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Jeff Gibson |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley

WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES an artist an artist’s artist? For my money, it’s a purity of intent, manifesting as a relentless interrogation of precepts concerning both art and its valuation that places the act of creation—with all that term’s spiritual connotations—above the commercial imperatives of the art system. Common among those individuals worthy of the exalted appellation is a temptation to vacate, in view of unacceptable compromise, the industry’s fraught financial space.

Nov 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Percy Zvomuya |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley

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Oct 14, 2024 | artforum.com | Tina Rivers Ryan |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley

Artforum has a long history of publishing texts on film, from the writings of Annette Michelson on cinema’s theorists and avant-garde auteurs to J. Hoberman’s reviews of both mainstream and independent movies. In this Artforum Dossier, we have gathered texts that focus on artistic practices that reflexively engage with the specific materiality of celluloid—the transparent plastic that served as the most common substrate for moving images before the advent of analog and digital video.

Oct 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Tracey EminPlus icon |Tracey Emin |Lillian Davies |Garrett Bradley

MOST MORNINGS I wake up very early, around 5 AM. I sleep with a tube that’s attached to me and a bag full of urine. Sometimes the tube becomes unattached, and I’m engulfed by a tsunami of piss. This usually depresses me. On a good morning, I’ll roll over and slide my arm into the warm cozy fur of my little cat Teacup.