Nam June Paik

The founding curator of MoMA’s video program describes how Warhol and Bowie helped shape the form, and how gallery staff have had to acquire old skool TV repair man skills to keep early works looking good

In this 2004 interview with the godfather of institutional critique, Hans Haacke taps into art’s relationship with big business, the CIA, Rudolph Giuliani, nationalism, and the George W. Bush administration.

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.

In advance of her retrospective opening at the New Museum this week, here's an interview that renowned curator Massimiliano Gioni conducted with the artist about her life's protean work, from the new Phaidon monograph Pipilotti Rist:Pixel Forest.

Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein spoke to the renowned exhibition-maker about why the ancient art form remains strikingly relevant in the digital era.

We scoured the booths of this year's curator-friendly fair to find artists you need to acquaint yourself with, including one from the other side of the globe.

In this interview with the famously forward-thinking MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach—excerpted from Phaidon’s monograph Marina Abramović—the artist looks back on her trailblazing career.

The must-see show "Electronic Superhighway," at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, traces computer art all the way from Nam June Paik (who coined the title phrase) to the digital wunderkind Oliver Laric. Here are five works not to miss.

Artspace's advice columnist, a seasoned traveler, shares some tips on the best places to seek out culture in the year ahead.

The video art pioneer spent the winter of 1968-69 living and working in New York. What happened next is the stuff of art history.

Looking for some chin-rubbing, mind-expanding, art writing goodness? Weekend Reads is here again.

This year's Frieze Projects include a labyrinthine Fluxus tribute, an underground hideout, and a personality test.

Catch up here on a few of the more important stories to emerge this week from an assessment of feminist net art to the legacy of Klimt's woman in gold.

In the aisles of the blue-chip Art Show in the Park Avenue Armory, major talents whom fame has eluded were lavishly given their due.

We surveyed the arc of the groundbreaking artist's career, from his outrageous early performances to his avant-garde experiments with robotics and TVs that crowned him the forefather of video art.

We spoke to the rising star about her of-the-moment work, and her foray into curating with her new survey of disquietingly funny art at Long Island City's expanded SculptureCenter.

From a world-shattering Cubist visionary to a brainy pasticheuse for the Internet era, these artists are going to be making waves this month.

We spoke to the pioneering art dealer about the particularities of the burgeoning genre, and how artists are using new media to venture into brave new terrain.

From a retro-futuristic totem by a Fluxus great to an edgy photo by one of the most freewheeling of America's young lensmen, these are works to snap up.