So the madness has descended upon Miami Beach once again. This year, it seems that those within the commercial and critical circles of contemporary art …

Ashes Steve McQueen Thomas Dane Gallery 3 & 11 Duke Street St James’s, London SWIY 6BN, United Kingdom “I knew Ashes, he was a friend.” …

Somewhere along la frontera and deep in Latin America are missives of tears and starvation aplenty, but what is missing from the discussion among the …

The previous issue of SFAQ contained an excerpt from the first chapter of my little book Achievement, Failure, Aspiration: Three Attempts to Understand Contemporary Art. …

In a review of one of the past decade’s many unmemorable Whitney Biennials, Peter Schjeldahl’s takeaway was that we had come to a pass where …

The question, unresolved from part one, remains: how does a developer or a gaming community initiate a folk tradition with video games? By looking at …

Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin Regen Projects 6750 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038 October 22–November 26, 2014 We have by now come to expect …

Hugh Scott-Douglas Promises to Pay in Solid Substance Jessica Silverman Gallery September 5–November 7, 2014 488 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 9410 What does it …

Download whole issue as PDF   COLUMNS Searching For A Citizens’ Media, Online, By Ben Valentine Islands In The Stream:On Local Networks & Internet Freedom, By Ingrid …

While culture is in fact fluid and ever evolving, more hybrid than absolute, more transitional than determined, by our need to define and understand it …

“For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must …

Islands In The Stream: On Local Networks & Internet Freedom If you could remake the Internet from scratch with all the knowledge of the current history …

By Alain Servais Art is a language which opens your heart to the Other. (Mera Rubell) Art as a form of experimental activity overlapping with …

I still don’t know what identity means, and it is possible that I never will. With that much said, I can now confess that I …

Joan Brown Gallery Paule Anglim 14 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 October 8–November 15, 2014 Joan Brown was a restless soul. She was married …

Korakrit Arunanondchai is a multi-media artist from Thailand who now lives and works in New York. As I am writing these words, Korakrit is filming …

When one thinks of the buzzing interest of Asian contemporary art hot spots, Ho Chi Minh City is rarely at the top of the list. …

Deborah Iskandar was born in the United States but has lived in Indonesia for many years. She established the first Indonesian international auction house for …

Interviews by Corey Andrew Barr   These interviews have been pulled from SFAQ print issue 17.   Far from the air-conditioned, whitewashed, and priced-out central districts …

On June 18, 2014, I was invited to deliver a lecture at Hangzhou’s China Academy of Art, one of China’s two premier national art schools. …