This issue's cover reproduces a painting by African American artist Kerry James Marshall, a work that exemplifies the artist's absorption of pictorial tradition in order to challenge stereotyped representations of blackness in society. On the occasion of his traveling retrospective “Mastry,” opening at the Met Breuer, New York, in October and at MOCA, Los Angeles, in March 2017, the artist talks with
Helen Molesworth about the entrenchment of white art discourse within art education and about his experience as a university professor within an academic structure that inhibits nonwhite access. Marshall remarks, “It's challenging when there are so few students of color in programs so you don't really get a chance to shape with them the conversation about what kinds of things are possible in making art, but you constantly have to keep doing it with students who already have access to that kind of experience.”
The question of how art explores the possibility of empathy is also addressed by Laura McLean-Ferris in her essay on French artist
Jean-Luc Moulène, the subject of a forthcoming retrospective this October at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In the writer's words, Moulène's recent work “allows one to think about both peculiar and important forms of empathy—not a kindly, gentle thought about how someone else might feel; but an attempt to get inside something violent or difficult or alien in the only ways that are available to you.”
Flash Art is a contemporary art and culture magazine (and a
publishing platform) founded in 1967. Within a decade, it became an indispensable point of reference for artists, critics, collectors, galleries, and institutions. In 2020,
Flash Art became a quarterly publication, at the same time increasing its trim size and updating its graphic identity. The magazine offers a fresh perspective on the visual arts, covering a range of transdisciplinary approaches and fostering in-depth analyses of artist practices and new cultural directions. Today,
Flash Art remains required reading for all who navigate the international art scene.
Flash Art is known for it covers featuring artists who subsequently become leading figures in the art world. The magazine includes photoshoots, productions, critical essays, monographic profiles, conversations with emerging and established artists, and a range of ongoing and thematic columns that change every few years. The long history of the magazine is also highlighted by pivotal texts from the archive that are included in the publication time to time. Finally, every issue offers a highly curated selection of the best institutional exhibitions on the global scene.
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