Flash Art
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Flash Art is a bimonthly magazine focusing on contemporary art. It was founded in 1967 by Italian publisher and art critic Giancarlo Politi. The magazine has been based in Milan, Italy, for 40 years, with editorial desks in New York and London. Originally a bilingual publication, it was split in two separate editions, Flash Art Italia (in Italian) and Flash Art International (in English), in 1978. It also publishes Czech and Slovak editions.
It has been described by Tony Stankus as "the confident, international journal of European and North American contemporary art, and features interesting viewpoints on American art from a European perspective."
Politi, besides the two magazines, publishes different books and catalogues, including Art Diary International, a directory that lists addresses and phone numbers of artists, critics, galleries, and museums.
History
Flash Art extensively covered the Arte Povera artists in the 1960s, before they became known in the English speaking world.
In 1993, Flash Art curated "Emergency" at the Aperto of the Venice Biennale. Also in 1993, Giancarlo Politi opened the Trevi Flash Art Museum in his hometown, Trevi. He currently edits the magazine with his wife and fellow art critic Helena Kontova.
The magazine first published or dedicated the first cover to artists such as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, Vanessa Beecroft, Francesco Vezzoli, Gabriel Orozco, Matthias Weischer, Eberhardt Havekost, Pipilotti Rist, Vito Acconci, Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat, Rikrit Tiravanija, John Currin, Martin Creed, Matthew Barney, Cady Noland, Rudolf Stingel, Jonathan Meese, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle, Thomas Scheibitz, Matthew Ritchie, David Salle, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman.
Contributors have included Bernard Blistene, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jerome Sans, Eric Troncy, Benjamin Weil, Francesco Bonami, Massimiliano Gioni, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hou Hanru, Yuko Hasegawa, Francesco Manacorda, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Roberto Pinto, Jens Hoffmann, Rosa Martinez, Octavio Zaya, Harald Szeemann, Achille Bonito Oliva, Germano Celant, Michele Robecchi, Klaus Biesenbach, Carlos Basualdo, Barry Schwabsky, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Barbara Casavecchia, Andrea Bellini.
