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DENNIS COOPER

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DENNIS COOPER

1. Pinback, Blue Screen Life The year’s most enigmatic, impeccable, swoonily beautiful songs.

2. Weezer, The Green Album America’s most popular great band brings rock formalism to the masses. Thirty perfect minutes.

3. Björk, Vespertine She escapes Lars von Trier and Matthew Barney unscathed.

4. Daft Punk, Discovery Intricate, vapid, irresistible, brainy French electro-pop piffle.

5. Mouse on Mars, Idiology Electronic music’s creative recession continued this year with a few eccentric exceptions. This was the wackiest.

6. Stephen Malkmus, Stephen Malkmus Even wiser words and music from Pavement’s brilliant crusader for and against irony.

7. Sigur Rós, Ágaetis Byrjun Weirdly charismatic, progressive rock–inflected borderline sonic tedium.

8. DJ Screw & the Screwed-up Click, Soldiers United for Cash Posthumous CD of erratic slo-mo hip-hop celebrating the effects of cough syrup by a Houston DJ who allegedly died from an overdose of same.

9. The White Stripes, White Blood Cells Suspiciously stylish but sincere brother-and-sister act (or divorced couple, depending on the interview) out of Detroit. Sparse, impassioned, quasi-gimmicky blues rock.

10. Autechre, Confield Music so cold and abstract it makes Carl Andre seem like Kiki Smith.

Contributing editor Dennis Cooper’s sixth novel, My Loose Thread, is forthcoming from Canongate Books in May 2002.

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Cover, spiral from top left: Luc Tuymans, Absence, 2001. oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 53 1/4. Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Head #23 (detail), 2000. color photograph, 48 x 60". Vik Muniz, Clouds, 2001, skywriting, New York City. Presented by Creative Time. Photo: Charlie Samuels. Thomas Ruff, d.p.b. 08 (detail), 2000, color photograph, 51 1/8 x 70 7/8". Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam—Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, 2001, 12-minute color video. Jeff Mermelstein, September 11th 2001 (detail), color photograph. David Goldblatt, Fifteen-year-old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, de Villiers Street, 25 October, 1985, black-and-white photograph. Olafur Eliasson, Moss Wall (detail), 1993–2001, wall covered in moss, dimensions variable. Installation view, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Thomas Hirschhorn, Laundrette, 2001, mixed media. Installation view, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Napoleon Bonaparte (detail), 1999, black-and-white photograph, 58 3/4 x 47". Pierre Huyghe, Les Grands ensembles, 1993–200, stills from a color video, 8 minutes. Irving Penn, untitled (detail), 2001, Vogue, July 2001. Condé Nast Publications. Andreas Gursky, Tote Hosen (detail), 2000, color photograph, 6' 10" x 16' 8". Tacita Dean, Berwick Lighthouse (detail), 1996, color photograph, 18 x 24". Jack Goldstein, MGM (detail), 1975, still from a color film in 16 mm, 2 minutes. Lucinda Devlin, Lethal Injection Chamber, Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois, 1991, color photograph, 51 3/16 x 70 7/8".
Cover, spiral from top left: Luc Tuymans, Absence, 2001. oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 53 1/4. Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Head #23 (detail), 2000. color photograph, 48 x 60". Vik Muniz, Clouds, 2001, skywriting, New York City. Presented by Creative Time. Photo: Charlie Samuels. Thomas Ruff, d.p.b. 08 (detail), 2000, color photograph, 51 1/8 x 70 7/8". Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam—Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, 2001, 12-minute color video. Jeff Mermelstein, September 11th 2001 (detail), color photograph. David Goldblatt, Fifteen-year-old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, de Villiers Street, 25 October, 1985, black-and-white photograph. Olafur Eliasson, Moss Wall (detail), 1993–2001, wall covered in moss, dimensions variable. Installation view, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Thomas Hirschhorn, Laundrette, 2001, mixed media. Installation view, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Napoleon Bonaparte (detail), 1999, black-and-white photograph, 58 3/4 x 47". Pierre Huyghe, Les Grands ensembles, 1993–200, stills from a color video, 8 minutes. Irving Penn, untitled (detail), 2001, Vogue, July 2001. Condé Nast Publications. Andreas Gursky, Tote Hosen (detail), 2000, color photograph, 6' 10" x 16' 8". Tacita Dean, Berwick Lighthouse (detail), 1996, color photograph, 18 x 24". Jack Goldstein, MGM (detail), 1975, still from a color film in 16 mm, 2 minutes. Lucinda Devlin, Lethal Injection Chamber, Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois, 1991, color photograph, 51 3/16 x 70 7/8".
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