Volume 17 Issue 11
Sara-vide Ericson
Sara-Vide Ericson graduated from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Art last year and has already been picked up by the prestigious Galleri Magnus Karlsson, where she recently exhibited her first solo show.
Zander Blom
Zander lives and works from his home in the beat up suburb of Brixton in Johannesburg. His studio resembles a soiled hamster cage.
Georgina Gratrix
A lot of Georgina Gratrix’s work is ugly, her major interests include bad painting, Paris Hilton, silly string, confetti, critical theory and pretty girls and boys. She also really likes painting. Georgina arrives at every party splattered in paint.
Agreement Is Not What We Look For
Strangers to the art world may have come across the work of Cerith Wyn Evans in his collaborations with the director Derek Jarman. Together the two made videos for the Smiths, the Fall and the Pet Shop Boys in the 1980s.
God Is Pissing From A Great Height
A couple of months ago I walked into the Wilkinson Gallery in London, expecting to potter around as usual, rubbing my chin at mediocre art as if I was definitely going to buy a piece for five trillion pounds.
White Punk On Hope
Gee Vaucher was a member of Crass and is a genius who made some of the most iconic punk rock artwork ever.
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović was recovering from her MoMA retrospective, “The Artist Is Present,” when we visited her at her home in upstate New York this past summer.
Fear, Desire, Drugs, and Fucking
Antoine D'Agata is a contentious character in the worlds of photography and art. Signed up by the Magnum photo agency in the period when they started to realise there was little money in photojournalism, his work has a habit of upsetting people.
Bob Nickas
Disclosure City: Bob Nickas was my boss at index magazine from 1999 to 2001. We’ve remained close friends since then. I thought about recusing myself from writing an intro here because this is basically a long interview with a friend.