ONE SUMMER, Koyo Kouoh invited me to the home outside Basel that she shared with her saxophonist husband, Philippe Mall. Arriving with my then-partner, the artist Alexandra Bachzetsis, we met Theo Eshetu, Godfried Donkor, Tracey Rose, and other artists for two days of talking, cooking, and dancing to Nigerian and Ghanaian highlife music by the […]| Artforum
WHEN THE VIDEO ART PIONEER Dara Birnbaum passed away this past May, she left behind a bevy of fellow artists, gallerists, and curators who have championed her throughout the years. Stuart Comer, the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, summed up her character to me […]| Artforum
A FORMIDABLE CRITIC and an expansive personality, P. Adams Sitney was at once affable and irascible, generous and opinionated. He loved to play the Great Man, and as the author of an unquestionably great book illuminating an ostensibly abstruse subject—published before he turned thirty—why not? Appearing in 1974, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde invented a […]| Artforum
Oh no, it happened again! I went for two months without writing a blog. My excuse is that I was very busy doing actual things. Having a lovely boyfriend is doing wonders for my social life and self-esteem, but is proving to be less good for my blogging career.| hampo.uk