OPENINGS: DRAKE CARR
Devan Díaz on Drake Carr
Battle Lines
Michael Lobel on Romare Bearden in the 1930s
Breaking Dawn
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s new history of humanity
A JASPER JOHNS RETROSPECTIVE
Four contributors take stock of “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror”
Missing Men
Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller on Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers
Blood Meridian
J. M. W. Turner in Texas
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PRINT September 1966
On Rene Magritte
Roger Shattuck
This week, associate editor Zack Hatfield introduces an essay by Roger Shattuck on Magritte that appeared in Artforum in September 1966. Currently on artforum.com, Albert Mobilio reviews the newly published Magritte: A Life, a biography of the artist by Alex Danchev, with Sarah Whitfield.
Surrealism was once a dirty word among New York’s art-world influencers, who belittled the movement as a distraction from the reigning program of Greenbergian formalism. In part an attempt to sanitize Surrealism for contemporary discourse, Artforum’s divisive September 1966 issue—the cover is by Ed Ruscha—includes