Last Thursday afternoon, as UK citizens braved the torrential rain to vote in a referendum that will probably eject them from the EU, I stood in front of Bas Jan Ader’s most famous film, I’m too sad ...

Tragically truncated lives tend to be told in reverse, as narratives of inevitability, thick with prefigurations of death. The Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s life (1942-75) can hardly be seen otherwise.

Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975), the Dutch-born Conceptual artist who lived in Los Angeles, produced a modest body of work that has been largely overtaken by the mythic aura surrounding his death. A small ...

Bas Jan Ader's "Untitled," a 1967 oil-on-canvas self-portrait, is included in the “Thoughts Unsaid ...” exhibition, which runs through Feb. 25 at Meliksetian Briggs gallery in Dallas. Nan Coulter / ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1735): This is a still from a 1974 video by Bas Jan Ader called Primary Time, and you could say that it stands for all the other works in “Looking Back,” the eleventh Annual at White ...

David Quadrini is a hard man to pin down. The gallerist, curator and artist has spent the past few months carefully choosing pieces for a truly remarkable show at the new gallery Meliksetian Briggs in ...

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the exhibition Disappearing — California, c. 1970: Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein. The Modern Art Museum You can't see it in the short film of ...

Artists explore insomnia and snoozing, sculptors imagine alternative futures and we look back with a great British photographer – all in your weekly dispatch.

Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film', by New York-based artist David Horvitz - the centerpiece of his exhibition of the same name at 2nd Cannons Publications - is one of these homages: a five-second video ...

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan 'Bas Jan' Ader (19 April 1942 – disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual- and performance artist, photograper. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and ...