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Sep 26, 2024 | 
interviewmagazine.com | Vaginal Davis |Mekala Rajagopal
“One of my favorite pastimes is avoiding people,” said Vaginal Davis when she met up with Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo of Xiu Xiu for tacos in Berlin. The California-born, Berlin-based experimental musicians couldn’t agree more.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Kito NedoPlus icon |Kito Nedo |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis
Talks about her painting process FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS, Martha Jungwirth has fashioned a distinctive painterly language that she once described as the liberatory opposite of “rigid, binding reality.” Born in 1940 in Vienna, where she still lives, she was the only woman member of Wirklichkeiten (Realities), a loose association of artists who took their name after an eponymous 1968 exhibition at the Vienna Secession curated by art historian, journalist, and museum director Otto Breicha.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Percy Zvomuya |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens
Sylvester Mubayi’s The Great Spirit, 1973OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE to the National Gallery of Zimbabwe—a squat, airy, sun-sponging edifice in Harare designed by Montgomerie and Oldfield, students of Le Corbusier—stands a stone sculpture by Sylvester Mubayi. Over six feet tall, the dome-headed, four-eyed, slit-mouthed Great Spirit, 1973, watches over the sinuous Julius Nyerere Way. The stone bouncer observes passersby on the busy throughfare, but the pedestrians also look back.
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May 6, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Philip Leider |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens
The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn’t that what it’s all about? —Frank Stella, in conversationBOTH ABSTRACTION AND LITERALISM look at Pollock for sanction; it is as if his work was the last achievement of whose status every serious artist is convinced.
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May 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens |Lola Kramer |Molly Warnock
RICK OWENS: Do you remember the first time we met? VAGINAL DAVIS: Oh, yes, I do. You were doing work with this band called, I think, Red Wedding? Do you remember them? RO: I do. VD: I forgot exactly if you were making costumes for them or designing something for their stage shows. RO: I wasn’t. I was fucking the singer. VD: Ha! That’s how we first met, through Red Wedding. I think it was at one of their shows, and I was wearing an outfit where I was sort of copying one of my mother’s looks.
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May 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens
“I EXPEL MYSELF, I spit myself out, I abject myself,” writes Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror, her 1980 classic of psychoanalytic criticism. In Mire Lee’s morbid environments, fluids surge, orifices open, and pipes leak, though we are never sure what, or who, comes out of them. “I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomit,” Kristeva continues. This image—of birth through convulsion—captures the pathos of Lee’s regurgitative sculptures.
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May 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Zsofi Valyi-Nagy |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens
THIS PAST DECEMBER, pioneering computer artist Vera Molnar died at the age of ninety-nine. To celebrate her achievements—and to mark the opening of a major exhibition of her work at Centre Pompidou, Paris, now on view through August 26—Artforum invited artist and art historian Zsofi Valyi-Nagy to provide an overview of Molnar’s oeuvre.
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May 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Ara Osterweil |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens
The female predators of recent cinemaFROM D. W. GRIFFITH’S incendiary Birth of a Nation (1915) and Broken Blossoms (1919) to Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Lolita (1955) to Brooke Shields’s performance as a preteen prostitute in Pretty Baby (1978) to the infatuation with a teenager that sets off Kevin Spacey’s midlife crisis in American Beauty (1999), American cinema’s audiences have been riveted by depictions of intergenerational relationships and intimations of predatory abuse.
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May 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Rachel Wetzler |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens
The art of Ghislaine LeungSOMEWHERE IN THE BOWELS of a corporate data server, there are hundreds of recordings of me singing the Raffi song “Baby Beluga,” captured by the smart baby monitor positioned over my daughter’s crib. Connected to an app on my phone, the monitor sends push alerts whenever it detects excessive levels of noise or movement, so I can track her sleep from anywhere. (“Is the heat on?
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May 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens |Rachel Wetzler
PERFORMANCE ART, video art, installations? Joan Jonas may never have intended to establish herself as the pioneer of one art form or another; I think she simply wanted to make art by any means available to her.
