artpress April 2020 Issue: Christo Interview, Drawing Now, and More

The April 2020 issue of artpress (No. 476) features a major interview with Christo by Bernard Blistène, discussing the pleasure principle behind Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work. The issue includes a spotlight on the exhibition 'Vida Americana' with an interview of Barbara Haskell by Frédérique Joseph-Lowery, and a feature on the SMITH galaxy by Étienne Hatt. It covers the Drawing Now fair, with articles on filmmaker drawings by Jean-Jacques Manzanera and profiles of artists including Cyril Duret, Pep Vidal, Gilles Barbier, Maria Arendt, Stanislas Moussé, Gaëlle Chotard, Momoko Nakagawa, Mathieu Dufois, and Vera Molnár. Morgan Labar writes on Paul McCarthy as a compulsive drawer. Reviews cover exhibitions by Gérard Garouste, Olafur Eliasson, Steve McQueen, René Burri, Wolfgang Tillmans, Eugène Frey, Diogo Pimentão, Agnès Geoffray, Alex Hanimann, William Kentridge, Orsten Groom, the agnès b. collection, François Morellet, Jordan Wolfson, and Adrien M & Claire B. The issue also includes a tribute to Pierre Guyotat by Jacques Henric, columns by Étienne Hatt and Georges Banu, an article on art and politics in Hong Kong by Caroline Ha Thuc, and a feuilleton by Jacques Henric on Georges Didi-Huberman's 'L'arme des larmes'. The cover features Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 'Portrait empaqueté de Jeanne-Claude' (1963).