Thomas Hirschhorn

From writers like Teju Cole, Sophie Calle, and László Krasznahorkai, here's what you need to read to catch up this summer.

This brief history of video art from Phaidon's Art In Time features pioneers of the moving image like Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, and Peter Campus.

Here, we’ve excerpted a conversation between the Swiss artist and the curator and critic Alison Gingeras from Phaidon’s Thomas Hirschhorn, focusing on Hirschhorn's thoughts around being a fan defining the success or failure of a piece.

This essay from Phaidon's Art in Time explores the participatory movement, which saw a blurring of the line between artist and viewer.

After looking at some truly useful political art projects, we’ve reverse engineered a how-to guide for creating—and disseminating—art as a form of activism.

The celebrated American artist gives a fascinating and in-depth interview to curator Okwui Enwezor in this excerpt from her just-released Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series monograph.

We broke down the main exhibition's artist list for a primer on themes in the big show.

To mark the opening of NADA, we spoke to the highly regarded specialist in emerging art about how to pick rising talents, and why the current moment is so ripe for collectors.

We spoke to the legendary figure in European contemporary art about his polarizing exhibition in St. Petersburg's Hermitage—and his side of the story.

The influential writer, curator, critic, and activist discusses her new book, "conceptual art-or-not" and the future of art activism.

Check out the art we saw this week, from the fruits of the para-events around Art L.A. Contemporary to a riveting new Chinese art exhibition at eFlux.

With historical (and fictional) archives popping up everywhere in contemporary art, we look at four strategies artists use to employ the highly relevant—no, not dusty!—format.