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Nicolas Bourriaud on Pierre Huyghe

The French art critic Nicholas Bourriaud examines the ways in which Pierre Huyghe mixes fact and fiction, reversing the real to upset traditional expectations of how art is perceived. His strength lies in his understanding that an image always comes with baggage.

Pierre Huyghe, This is not a time for dreaming, 2004

Pierre Huyghe
This is not a time for dreaming 2004
© Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris © the artist
Live puppet play and super 16mm film, 24 minutes

Vincent Pécoil on symmetry

Lori Hersberger, Installation view of Spin My Wheel at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, 2003

The End of Perspective? Vincent Pécoil explores the change in the contemporary desire to disorientate the viewer. Including Olafur Eliasson and Carsten Höller.

John Banville on Mark Rothko

The Rothko Room, Tate Modern

John Banville writes a personal appreciation of Rothko after a visit to Tate Modern's Rothko Room.