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January 2022

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Jasper Johns, Figure 1, 1969, lithograph, 38 × 31". From the “Color Numeral Series,” 1969. © Jasper Johns and Gemini G.E.L./VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Published by Gemini G.E.L.

January 2022, Vol. 60, No. 5

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COLUMNS

passages

Thomas Crow on Billy Apple

passages

Allen Ruppersberg on Margo Leavin

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria, 2021, 35 mm transferred to 4K video, color, sound, 136 minutes. Jessica Holland (Tilda Swinton).

film

Amy Taubin on Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria

film

Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller on Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers

Case Study

Michael Lobel on Romare Bearden in the 1930s

top ten

Patric Dicaprio shares his Top Ten

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Jasper Johns, Ventriloquist, 1986, lithograph, 42 × 29 1⁄2". © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

A JASPER JOHNS RETROSPECTIVE

Four contributors take stock of “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror”

View of “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” 2021–22, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wall, from left: Two Flags, 1962; Corpse and Mirror II, 1974–75; Two Maps, 1989. Foreground: Painted Bronze, 1960. Photo: Joseph Hu. © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

DOUBLETAKE

Harry Cooper on Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns, Liar, 1961, encaustic, Sculp-metal, and graphite on paper, 21 1⁄4 × 17". © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

LIAR’S PARADOX

Rosalind E. Krauss on Jasper Johns

FLATWARE

Alex Kitnick on In Memory of My Feelings—Frank O’Hara, 1961

Jasper Johns, Figure 2, 1962, encaustic, oil, chalk, and collage on canvas, 50 1⁄4 × 40 1⁄8". © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

TWO OF A KIND

Darby English on Figure 2, 1962

UNDER THE SKIN OF NEWNESS

Domenick Ammirati on the New Museum’s 2021 Triennial, Greater New York 2021 at MoMA PS1, and Rosemary Mayer at Swiss Institute

BODY IMAGE

Daniel Marcus on the art of Hannah Wilke

LEFT, RIGHT, INSIDE, OUT: ART AND COMPARISON

Mostafa Heddaya on the comparative complex

OPENINGS: DRAKE CARR

Devan Díaz on Drake Carr

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Vivian Suter, Untitled, date unknown, mixed media on paper, 99 5⁄8 × 55 1⁄8".

Daniel Birnbaum on Vivian Suter

Paul Maheke, Mauve, Jim and John, 2021, HD video, color, sound, 28 minutes 5 seconds.

Briony Fer on “Afterness”

John Currin, Mantis, 2020, oil on canvas, 74 × 39".

New York

Bob Thompson, Garden of Music, 1960, oil on canvas, 6' 5 1⁄2" × 11' 11".

Waterville

Debra Lennard on Bob Thompson

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, At the Studio #1, 2018, oil on canvas, 82 × 108".

Dallas

Barry Schwabsky on Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

David Gutierrez, Self-Portrait #41, 2019, ink-jet print, 30 × 72".

Los Angeles

Sylvia Safdie, Inventory, 2021, organic and mineral materials, steel, bronze, glass, brick. Installation view. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay.

Montréal

Ara Osterweil on Sylvia Safdie

Claudia Gutiérrez, untitled, 2021, mixed media. Installation view.

Santiago

Mariairis Flores Leiva on Claudia Gutiérrez

São Paulo

Evan Moffitt on Manuel Solano

Karlo Kacharava, Perversion of Kings, 1993, oil on canvas, 47 1⁄4 × 39 1⁄4".

London

Anne Tallentire, Area (detail), 2021, laminated MDF, dimensions variable.

Belfast

Declan Long on Anne Tallentire

César, Hayon corail (Coral Tailgate), 1986, compressed automotive element, painted sheet metal, 62 1⁄2 × 54 3⁄4".

Gisors and Paris, France

Sarah Moroz on César

Jochen Lempert, Untitled (Aquarium, Toronto), 2017, gelatin silver print, 19 × 15".

Porquerolles

Mara Hoberman on “La Mer Imaginaire”

View of “Gonçalo Sena,” 2021. From left: Circular Spaces #14, 2020; To Intrude on Nature’s Way, 2021.

Madrid

Joaquín Jesús Sánchez on Gonçalo Sena

Carlos Garaicoa, Partitura (Score), 2017/2021, sound, video, music stands, tablets, paper, ink. Installation view.

San Gimignano

Agnieszka Gratza on Carlos Garaicoa

View of “Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing,” 2021–22. From left: Iman Issa, Self-Portrait: Self as Alenka Zupancčič, 2020; _Self-Portrait: Self as Doria Shafik, 2020; Self-Portrait: Self as William S. Burroughs, 2019. From the series “Proxies, with a Life of Their Own,” 2019–21. Photo: Frank Sperling.

Berlin

Sharona Franklin, Drosophila Clock X, 2021, silver, brass, aluminum, mixed metal, expired pharmaceuticals, wood, foraged bone, antler, photographs, enamel, 19 3⁄4 × 19 3⁄4".

Brussels

Camila McHugh on Sharona Franklin

Sissel Tolaas, SelfLifePortrait, 2005–, sink, fountain, pipe, ocean water, soap, dimensions variable.

Oslo

Sarah Lookofsky on Sissel Tolaas

Alban Muja, Family Album (detail), 2019, still from the “Besa/Family Album” HD video component (color, sound, 6 minutes 50 seconds) of a mixed-media and three-channel video installation additionally comprising two further videos and a photograph.

Pristina, Kosovo

Erëmirë Krasniqi on Alban Muja

Aref El Rayess, Temps Moderne et Tiers Monde (Modern Times and the Third World), 1974, lacquer on wood, 10 3⁄8 × 10 3⁄8".

Beirut

Natasha Gasparian on Aref El Rayess

Jan St. Werner with Michael Akstaller, Oliver Mayer, and Jürg Andreas Meister, Robodynamic Diffusion (RDD), 2021, mixed media, dimensions variable. From the Sixth Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Yekaterinburg, Russia

Valerie Mindlin on Sixth Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art

Manish Nai, Digits XIII, 2016, digital print, 36 × 62 1⁄2". From the series “Billboard,” 2016.

New Delhi

Meera Menezes on Manish Nai

Seulgi Lee, Slow Water, 2021, paint, wood, 18 × 18".

Incheon

Andrew Russeth on Seulgi Lee

View of “Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork,” 2021. Photo: Michael Yu.

Hong Kong

Ysabelle Cheung on Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Yona Lee, Kit-set In-transit, 2020, stainless steel, objects. Installation view.

Sydney

Toni Ross on Yona Lee