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 ...

Bas Jan Ader, "Fall 2" (Amsterdam, 1970), 16mm film, 19 min. (© The Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. Courtesy Meliksetian / Briggs, Dallas) HAMBURG, Germany ...

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'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 / ...

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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 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 ...

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 art career lasted only five years. From 1970 to 1975 he played out his notions of the weight of gravity in short films that showed him hanging from trees (Broken Fall, Organic), biking ...

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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 ...