MAY 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREVIEW

· US News: the 55th Carnegie International

· Vault: the Dead Sea Scrolls

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

· THE GREAT REFUSAL

FEATURES

· A REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS NEVER ENDS

· INVISIBLE CITIES: HENRI LEFEBVRE’S THE EXPLOSION

· THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE

· LEARNING CURVE: RADICAL ART AND EDUCATION IN GERMANY

· IMMANENT DOMAIN: THE FILMS OF PETER HUTTON

EDITOR’S LETTER

· LESSONS OF ’68

MAY ’68

· The student revolt at Columbia University

· Suck

TOP TEN

· Qiu Zhijie

REVIEWS

· Focus: Philip Taaffe

· Focus: Martin Puryear

· Table of contents

· Send a letter to the editor
 

Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, has described his city as “poor but sexy.” Cheap, safe, and social, Berlin offers haven to all kinds of creative freelancers. Although it may be laid-back, however, it is not particularly cosmopolitan. Thus the annual Berlin Gallery Weekend, initiated in 2005 by a number of established Berlin galleries as an attempt to glamorize and... READ ON

INTERNATIONAL NEWS DIGEST
THIS WEEK: ART FORUM BERLIN CHANGES DIRECTORS; TROUBLE FOR ARA PACIS MUSEUM?; THE FATE OF ILE SEGUIN; SERRA AT "MONUMENTA"; HOFMANN DIES AT 102

Richard Prince now reigns as one of the most influential figures for young artists drawn to his cunning amalgams of grunge and glamour, conceptual spark and pop-cultural savvy. READ ON

US EXHIBITIONS
Karen Kilimnik, Olafur Eliasson, "Mike's World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators)... MORE

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Alice Creischer, Ferdinand Hodler... MORE

OPENING THIS WEEK
In Los Angeles, New York, Düsseldorf, Reykjavík. MORE

Conversations on Contemporary Art and Culture

This is not a brash exhibition, although some of the works here might be described as such. However, even though it does not strive to produce a cohesive, totalizing view of art produced in Turkey, “Sampling” is a rather cohesive exhibition in itself. READ ON

NEW YORK

· Jenny Perlin

· An-My Lê

· Mel Bochner

· Alexander Brodsky

· "Shaker Design: Out of This World"

· “Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960–2000”

LOS ANGELES

· Soo Kim

· Bernard Rudofsky

· "Make Art/Stop AIDS"

SAN FRANCISCO

· "Cut: Revealing the Section"

ATLANTA

· Jack Whitten

CHICAGO

· Shannon Stratton

· "Ed Ruscha and Photography"

DETROIT

· Amy Vogel

MILWAUKEE

· "Indexical Frontiers"

NASHVILLE

· Angelo Filomeno

WASHINGTON, DC

· Paula Rego

LONDON

· Mat Collishaw

· Lee Ufan

PARIS

· André Cadere

· David Renggli

BERLIN

· Jorinde Voigt

· Dan Attoe

· Christian Schönwälder

MILAN

· Rirkrit Tiravanija

· Luis Molina-Pantin

· Andrea Sala

PRATO

· Emilio Isgrò

TURIN

· "Greenwashing"

VIENNA

· Andy Coolquitt, Frank Haines, William J. O'Brien

· Dominik Steiger

ATHENS

· "Sampling"

STOCKHOLM

· Jonas Dahlberg

TOKYO

· Naoya Hatakeyama