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Still from Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, 2019, 2K video, color, sound, 137 minutes. Iya (Viktoria Miroshnichenko) and Masha (Vasilisa Perelygina).
Film
THE FACE OF WAR
James Quandt on Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole
Thomas Ostermeier, History of Violence, 2019. Rehearsal views, St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York, November 12, 2019. Édouard (Laurenz Laufenberg) and Reda (Renato Schuch).
Performance
TRUE CRIME
Jennifer Krasinski on the theatrical adaptation of Édouard Louis’s History of Violence
Michelle Stuart, Every Wave Book (for Melville), 1979, earth, sand, and sea pebbles from North Shore of Long Island, linen, muslin-mounted rag paper, 8 × 14 × 3 1⁄2".
Books
LEAVES OF GRASS
Mira Dayal on Michelle Stuart’s books
Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Il tire la langue (He Sticks Out His Tongue), 1777–1825, pen, ink, and wash on paper, 13 5⁄8 × 9 1⁄4".
Architecture
ON THE MARGINS
Meredith Martin on Jean-Jacques Lequeu
COUM Transmissions poster (detail), 1973. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
Slant
MIRACLE WORKER
FT on a true icon, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
By FT
Kareem Risan, Al Mutanabbi Street, 2007, mixed media on paper mounted on board; closed: 16 1⁄2 × 16 1⁄2 × 3 1⁄2".
On Site
CONTESTED DEVELOPMENT
Tausif Noor on “Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011”
View of “Rayyane Tabet: Alien Property,” 2019–21, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo: Anna-Marie Kellen.
Features
LET THE RECORD SHOW
KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE ON RAYYANE TABET
Pope.L, Choir (detail), 2019. Photo: Ron Amstutz. © Pope.L.
Features
POPE.L WALKS INTO A ROOM
SIMONE WHITE ON THE ART OF POPE.L
Pope.L, Package Received but Never Opened # 21, 2017, Maisie’s Savory snack mix, The Popcorn Factory caramel popcorn, Emilie Roux Pretzel snacks, Walker’s Belgian chocolate cookies, Ghirardelli dark chocolate blueberry squares, ceramic bowl, clear plastic, silk ribbon. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019. Photo: Chandra Glick. © Pope.L.
Features
MEMBERS ONLY
CIARÁN FINLAYSON ON THE ART OF POPE.L
John Giorno, The World Just Makes Me Laugh, 2017, silk screen on canvas, 48 × 48".
Features
LAURA HOPTMAN
on John Giorno
Dodrupchen Rinpoche at John Giorno’s Bunker, New York, June 24, 1989.
Features
FANNY HOWE
on John Giorno
John Giorno, Just Say No to Family Values, 1997, silk screen on paper, 22 × 22". © Durham Press/John Giorno.
Features
ANNE WALDMAN
on John Giorno
Film strip from Andy Warhol’s Sleep, 1963, 16 mm, black-and-white, silent, 321 minutes. John Giorno. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; CNAC/MNAM/ Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY.
Features
JOAN JONAS
on John Giorno
Ugo Rondinone, Thanx 4 Nothing (detail), 2015, still from the 2K video component (black-and-white, sound, 24 minutes 14 seconds) of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising four screens, sixteen monitors, and a carpet.
Features
UGO RONDINONE
on John Giorno
Still from Eileen Myles’s The Trip, 2019, Super 8, color, sound, 17 minutes 9 seconds.
Features
NEVER TOO LATE
RACHEL CHURNER ON THE LATE STYLE OF EILEEN MYLES AND YVONNE RAINER
Christine Sun Kim, Yo Momma So Heavy-Deaf, 2019, charcoal and oil pastel on paper, 16 1⁄2 × 16 1⁄2".
Features
PROJECT: CHRISTINE SUN KIM
Malik Gaines presents new drawings by the artist
Tianzhuo Chen, Trance, 2019. Performance view, M Woods, Beijing, October 31, 2019. Photos: Peiyu Shen.
Features
OPENINGS: TIANZHUO CHEN
Travis Jeppesen on Tianzhuo Chen
February 2020
FEBRUARY 2020
VOL. 58, NO. 6
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