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 January 2006
Ryan Trecartin
Dennis Cooper
This week, the editors celebrate a January 2006 essay on artist Ryan Trecartin by novelist, filmmaker, and Artforum contributing editor Dennis Cooper. The newest episode of Artforum and Bookforum’s video series “Artists On Writers | Writers On Artists” premieres this Thursday, January 27, and features Cooper in a conversation with Trecartin about theme parks and haunted houses, the pain of producing first drafts, and what it means to make a life in art right now.
It was Cooper who initially brought Trecartin’s work to the pages of Artforum in an essay published as part of “First Takes,” a series