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May/June 2020

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May/June 2020, Vol. 58, No. 9

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COLUMNS

Detail of a work in progress by Jasper Johns, April 13, 2020, approx. 50 × 66".

EDITOR’S LETTER

David Velasco

Marina Abramović and Ulay, Amsterdam, 1981.

passages

Marina Abramović on Ulay

Santu Mofokeng, Johannesburg, 2013. Photo: Steve Tanchel.

passages

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on Santu Mofokeng

Alexander Nanau, Colectiv (Collective), 2019, 2K video, color, sound, 109 minutes. Tedy Ursuleanu.

film

Amy Taubin on Alexander Nanau’s Collective

Sergei Loznitsa, State Funeral, 2019, 2K video, color and black-and-white, sound, 135 minutes.

film

J. Hoberman on Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral

View of “Carl Craig: Party/After-Party,” 2020, Dia:Beacon, New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio.

music

Jace Clayton on Carl Craig at Dia:Beacon

Ruben Suryaninov, Soviet Union propaganda poster, 1959.

LANGUAGE

Yuliya Komska on the handshake

Cover of Grace Jones’s Nightclubbing (Island Records, 1981).

Top Ten

DURO OLOWU

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SPEED OF LIFE

Body-temperature check at the German-Polish border, Görlitz, Germany, March 18, 2020. Photo: Florian Gaertner/Photothek/Getty Images.

LEARNING FROM THE VIRUS

Paul B. Preciado

Eileen Myles

“BECAUSE I WAS IN”

Yoko Ono

Alexandro Segade

Charles Ray

THE TEACHINGS OF A VIRUS

Tobias Rees, Anicka Yi

Robert Wise, The Andromeda Strain, 1971, 835 mm, color, sound, 131 minutes. Dr. Mark Hall (James Olson) and Jackson (George Mitchell).

VIRIONS: THINKING THROUGH THE SCALE OF AGGREGATION

Caroline A. Jones

Coronavirus-related riot, Poggioreale prison, Naples, Italy, March 9, 2020. Photo: S Laporta/Kontrolab/IPA/SIPA/Shutterstock.

HARM OF THE LAW

Stuart Schrader on police

Ridykeulous

Lauren Halsey, thang, 2020, digital collage, 10 1⁄2 × 21".

Lauren Halsey

hannah baer

Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA, April 2020. Photo: Andrea Zittel.

SILENT SPRING

Andrea Zittel

Mercer Street, New York, March 26, 2020. Photo: John Kelsey.

VIRUS-TIME

John Kelsey

Selected by Peter Saville: Artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object detected in our solar system, 2017. Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser.

Brian Eno and Peter Saville

Brian Eno

Reflections of grief, 2020.

Francesco Vezzoli

Luc Tuymans, untitled, 2020, gouache on paper, 17 3⁄4 × 17 3⁄4". From the series “Numbers,” 2020.

Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans, Bloodstains, 1993, oil on canvas, 22 5⁄8 × 18 3⁄4".

BARE LIFE

Molly Warnock on Luc Tuymans’s Bloodstains, 1993

THREAT ASSESSMENT

Wai Chee Dimock on living with risk

Tsai Ming-Liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, 2003, 35 mm, color, sound, 82 minutes. Production still. Ticket Woman (Chen Shiang-Chyi). Photo: Lin Meng-Shan.

CUT. AND ACTION.

Thomas Beard, Ed Halter, Nellie Killian, and Sierra Pettengill on the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund

Announcement poster for Heike Geißler and Anna Lena von Helldorff’s Museum Villa Stuck exhibition “Die demokratische Schnecke: Ein großes Märchen” (The Democratic Snail: A Great Fairy Tale), Munich, 2020.

GROUND TO A HALT

Heike Geißler

View of “Judd,” 2020, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar. © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

OBJECT LESSONS

Hal Foster on the art of Donald Judd

Tishan Hsu, Closed Circuit II, 1986, acrylic, alkyd, Styrofoam, and vinyl cement compound on wood, 59 × 59 × 4".

BODY HORROR

Matthew Ronay and Lane Relyea on the art of Tishan Hsu

View of “Meriem Bennani: Party on the CAPS,” 2020, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin. Photo: Alwin Lay.

OPENINGS: MERIEM BENNANI

Emily LaBarge

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Emily Karaka, Kingitanga ki Te Ao (They Will Throw Stones), 2020, mixed media on canvas, 78 3⁄8 × 109".

Anthony Byrt on 22nd Biennale of Sydney

Khadim Ali, Invisible Border, 2020, tapestry. Installation view, Summer Palace.

Zehra Jumabhoy on Lahore Biennale 02

View of “Shahryar Nashat: Force Life,” 2020. Foreground, from left: Brain (are you nervous in this system), 2020; Barre (when will you get rid of my body), 2020; Brain (you no longer have to simulate), 2020. Background: Blood (what is authority), 2020. Photo: Denis Doorly.

Jennifer Krasinski on Adam Linder and Shahryar Nashat

Rochelle Goldberg, Corpse Kitty: towards a friendly fatality, 2020, bronze, eye shadow, 19 3⁄4 × 40 1⁄8 × 12 5⁄8".

New York

Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Hand Sanitizer, 2010–, ethanol distilled from fermented corn and grain, gelling agents, ready-made dispenser, 16 × 6 × 4".

Ridgefield

Dawn Chan on Zoë Sheehan Saldaña

View of “Karyn Olivier,” 2020. From left: Fortified, 2017–20; Moving the Obelisk, 2019–20.

Philadelphia

C.C. McKee on Karyn Olivier

Harold Mendez, The years now (detail), 2020, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Chicago

Daniel Spoerri, Spiegelobjekt (Mirror Object), 1964, two mirrors, wooden boards, found objects, 19 3⁄4 × 39 3⁄8 × 3 1⁄8". From “Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965.”

St. Louis

Karen Butler on “Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965”

Lisa Lapinski, Little My Chair #3, 2017, wood, glue, found chair. Installation view.

Austin

Eli Diner on Lisa Lapinski

Lucio Fontana, Ambiente spaziale (Spatial Environment), 1966/2020, rectangular room, two corridors to enter and exit, walls and ceiling lined with black fabric, flooring in polyurethane foam covered in rubber, backlit holes with green neon crystal tubes. Installation view.

Los Angeles

Yollotl Gómez Alvarado, Calendario de sueño (Sleep Calendar), 2020, volcanic stone, 8 5⁄8 × 55 1⁄8 × 55 1⁄8".

Mexico City

Gabriela Jauregui on Yollotl Gómez Alvarado

Myra Greene, Piecework #38, 2019, dye and silk-screened ink on cotton, 74 × 68". From the series “Piecework,” 2017–.

London

View of “Aman Sandhu,” 2020. From left: Gada, 2018; Against against, 2019.

Glasgow

Calum Sutherland on Aman Sandhu

Caroline Wells Chandler, Ergot Faiery, 2019, acrylic and wool fibers, 66 × 96".

Paris

Ángel Ferrant, Maternidad (Maternity), 1949, cork, 12 5⁄8 × 9 1⁄2 × 11".

Valladolid

Joaquín Jesús Sánchez on Antonio Ballester Moreno and Ángel Ferrant

Mario Schifano, Qualcos’altro (Something Else), 1962, enamel on paper on canvas, 791⁄4 × 90 3⁄4".

Milan

Luisa Kasalicky, Synonym for Group Seven, 2019, tempera, gouache, and oil on canvas, 78 3⁄4 × 74 3⁄4".

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Luisa Kasalicky

Hans-Christian Lotz, Untitled, 2020, steel, 46 7⁄8 × 33 1⁄2".

Berlin

Thao Nguyen Phan, Tropical Siesta, 2017, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 13 minutes 41 seconds.

Brussels

Noemi Smolik on Thao Nguyen Phan

Charlotte Dumas, Yorishiro, 2020, 2K video, color, sound, 19 minutes 35 seconds.

Amsterdam

Huib Haye van der Werf on Charlotte Dumas

Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Hvis verden spør, så er svaret nei #2 (If the World Asks, the Answer is No #2), 2020, wool, cotton, rayon, ceramic hooks (by Marthe Elise Stramrud), 89 3⁄4 × 57 3⁄4 × 1 3⁄4".

Oslo

Maria Horvei on Ann Cathrin November Høibo

Isak Hall, Isenheim, 2019, tempera on panel, 77 1⁄8 × 63 3⁄4". From the series “Tempelserien” (Temple Series), 2019. From “The Trees, Light Green: Landscape Painting—Past and Present.”

Stockholm

Adam Kleinman on “The Trees, Light Green: Landscape Painting—Past and Present”

Louisa Gagliardi, Apples and Oranges, 2020, ink and gel medium on PVC, 70 7⁄8 × 44 1⁄8".

Warsaw

Agata Pyzik on Louisa Gagliardi

View of “Lynda Benglis,” 2019–20. Foreground: The Graces, 2003–2005. Background: Knossos, 1978.

Athens

Cathryn Drake on Lynda Benglis

Aslı Çavuşoğlu and Özer Yalçınkaya, ANNEX (detail), 2020, neon, dimensions variable.

Istanbul

Kaya Genç on Aslı Çavuşoğlu

Vikram Divecha, Southwest window facade (cropped view), Gallery 354, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018, ink-jet print, 12 × 8".

Dubai

Rahel Aima on Vikram Divecha

Golam Kasem Daddy, Happy girl. Dacca, 1957, ink-jet print, 10 × 7".

Dhaka

Skye Arundhati Thomas on Golam Kasem Daddy

IM Heung-soon, Good Light, Good Air, 2018, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 42 minutes.

Seoul

Shinyoung Chung on IM Heung-soon

Gemma Smith, Margin, 2020, acrylic on board, 54 × 46".

Sydney

Toni Ross on Gemma Smith