Isabelle Graw
Martin Kippenberger
June 2013
Hi, here I am, that must be enough. —Martin Kippenberger ALL OF BERLIN IS DELIGHTED: Martin Kippenberger is back in town. Contrary to popular belief, it was not in Cologne but here that the artist launched his career. It was in Berlin that… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
SOCIAL REALISM: THE ART OF JANA EULER
November 2012
YOU ARE YOUR NETWORK. This aphorism, freely adapted from theater director René Pollesch’s 2012 play Kill Your Darlings, trenchantly captures the new worth of connections and friendships in contemporary life. Of course, it is a well-known… READ ON
IN PRINT November 2012 [TOC]
Ellsworth Kelly
June 2012
THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, Ellsworth Kelly has continually worked in black and white, often in parallel to making the same forms in color. Devoted exclusively to his black-and-white works, this show, subtitled “Schwarz & Weiß” (Black & … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2012 [TOC]
ECCE HOMO: ART AND SUBJECTHOOD
November 2011
THE RESURGENCE OF THE HUMAN FIGURE in much recent sculpture cannot be separated from a renewed attention to the idea of the subject. Although it is so commonplace as to go unnoticed, the idea of the artwork as a kind of subject in itself was… READ ON
IN PRINT November 2011 [TOC]
CHARACTER STUDY: THE ART OF MICHAELA MEISE
November 2010
THE HUMAN BODY—that ghost of monumentality and figuration inexorably haunting modernism—is ever present in Michaela Meise’s work. Whether, in her numerous films, she takes on the pose of a neoclassical sculpture (as in Étude Carpeaux,… READ ON
IN PRINT November 2010 [TOC]
BEST OF 2008
December 2008
Every December, Artforum invites a broad spectrum of artists, critics, and curators to revisit the year in art. In the current issue, thirteen contributors choose their top ten highlights, while six others zero in for close-ups of single … READ ON
IN PRINT December 2008 [TOC]
ART AND ITS MARKETS: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
April 2008
EVEN AS GOLD rises and the dollar falls, the expansion of the global art market shows few signs of reversal. This growth has been characterized by incredible immediacy, liquidity, and transparency—but also by inequity, archaic ritual, and … READ ON
IN PRINT April 2008 [TOC]
PERIPHERAL VISION: THE ART OF JUTTA KOETHER
March 2006
FEW PEOPLE IN COLOGNE in the ’80s and early ’90s knew quite what to make of Jutta Koether’s paintings. Koether was admired for her astute theoretical essays on art and music, which appeared in the legendary German culture magazine Spex… READ ON
IN PRINT March 2006 [TOC]
Best of 2005: 11 Top Tens
December 2005
Every December, we ask leading critics and curators to remember ten high points of the year. The number-one picks from each of this year’s eleven contributors appear here. To have a look at the rest of the bests, read the full coverage in… READ ON
IN PRINT December 2005 [TOC]
“Regarding Terror”
April 2005
The history of the Red Army Faction may seem on first glance a closed book, not least because this terrorist organization announced its dissolution in 1998. But the process of legend-making continues unabated, and the RAF’s founding … READ ON