John Beeson
Marlie Mul
June 2013
The nature of a site is in the details: the way that this concrete floor maps a shape from white wall to white wall, or the way that the broad walls give way to narrower ones and another mounted with a bookshelf, or the way that the large, … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Józef Robakowski
March 2013
“Der Linie nach” (Along the Line), a recent exhibition of work by leading Polish avant-garde filmmaker Józef Robakowski, took as its cohesive ingredient a simple formal element: the line. Not in itself a particularly compelling theme, … READ ON
IN PRINT March 2013 [TOC]
OPENINGS: GERRY BIBBY
February 2013
“CANDY SAYS, ‘I’ve come to hate my body and all that it requires in this world.’” Against a sugar-sweet melody, Lou Reed opens the first track of the Velvet Underground’s 1969 self-titled album by quoting Warhol’s beloved … READ ON
IN PRINT February 2013 [TOC]
Vincent Fecteau
January 2013
Among the new abstract sculptures in Vincent Fecteau’s exhibition in Berlin were the largest that the artist has made until now. They are even bigger than his wall-mounted works exhibited at greengrassi in London in 2010, but all of these… READ ON
IN PRINT January 2013 [TOC]
John Beeson
December 2012
FROM THE DRONING CHORDS of Sonic Youth’s 1984 “Death Valley ’69” that echoed down the pitch-black entry hall to the sinking feeling in my stomach brought on by Richard Kern’s Fingered, 1986, KW’s “You Killed Me First” kept a… READ ON
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Franz Erhard Walther
November 2012
In recent years, the story of Franz Erhard Walther, when told, has been of his influence. A classmate of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, and Blinky Palermo at the art academy in Düsseldorf, later the teacher of Martin Kippenberger, Christian… READ ON
IN PRINT November 2012 [TOC]
“Querelle—Photographed by Roger Fritz”
June 2012
In 1982, the year in which Rainer Werner Fassbinder made his film Querelle, one of the actors, Roger Fritz, took several hundred photographs on the set. On the film’s release, a book was published with reproductions of 119 of the images. … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2012 [TOC]
FORT
May 2012
Near the end of Wong Kar-wai’s 1990 film, Days of Being Wild, the character Yuddy invokes the legend of the bird with no legs for a second time: “I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. … READ ON
IN PRINT May 2012 [TOC]
Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys
April 2012
It has been argued that the work of Belgian duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys hinges largely on an investigation of psychologies, a conclusion founded in de Gruyter’s influential experience working in a Brussels community center and the … READ ON
IN PRINT April 2012 [TOC]
Yngve Holen
March 2012
Under fluorescent light, the mirror foil letters of the words SENSITIVE TO DETERGENT glimmered on a wall in a corner of Autocenter’s one-room exhibition space. Although this banner was similar in appearance to John Knight’s wall text … READ ON