Elizabeth Peyton

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  books Summer 2013

  Elizabeth Peyton

  ELIZABETH PEYTON

  I was going to write about two books I got at the bookstore yesterday: Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880–1918 (Vintage) and Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which both look like great, engrossing reads, but . . . then I was reminded that I still haven’t even gotten around to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s “David Bowie is” catalogue. Edited by the exhibition’s curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, the volume includes so many amazing writers—Jon Savage, Camille Paglia,

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  print December 2007

  THEIR FAVORITE EXHIBITIONS OF THE YEAR

  To take stock of the past year, Artforum contacted an international group of artists to find out which exhibitions were, in their eyes, the very best of 2007. Contributions by ten of those artists have been reproduced below. For the rest, see the December issue of Artforum.

  CATHERINE SULLIVAN

  Daniel Mendel-Black, “The Paintings Are Alive” (Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles) The eleven paintings in this show seemed to create a place for the palette of Play-Doh to oppress acrylic and oil into some perilous graphic universe of cynical optimism. Looking is like falling in these paintings; your eyes are

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  print September 2004

  ELECTORAL COLLAGE: A PORTFOLIO

  FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THE INDELIBLE Abu Ghraib photographs this past spring, Richard Serra produced Stop Bush, a print that he has distributed widely both in art venues and in mainstream publications, as well as on the Internet. Serra insists that the piece is not an artwork but rather a “way to just get the message out,” a tack that inspired Artforum to invite other artists to take up the cause. Our brief was simple and open-ended: We asked fourteen artists to make an original contribution to these pages on the occasion of the American presidential election. A few, like Tom Sachs (whose

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  print December 1999

  BEST OF THE ’90s: MUSIC

  
  CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, artist:
  Driving across Europe with only one cassette, I never tired of MC Solaar’s Paradisiaque, a dazzling cross-cultural mix between American rap and chanson française—skillful wordplay in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp and Serge Gainsbourg.
  
  BEN RATLIFF, music critic, New York Times:
  I’ve been amazed by Caetano Veloso’s records––he is the avatar of a universal artist in pop music: a musician who studies and protects the cultural traditions of the New World, then generously expands them.

  ELIZABETH PEYTON, artist: Nirvana.

  BARBARA KRUGER, artist: There is no best of—just a