TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2021

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May 2021, Vol. 59, No. 9

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COLUMNS

James Bishop with his painting Hours, ca. 1963, American Center for Art & Culture, Paris, 1963.

passages

Molly Warnock on James Bishop

on site

Peter L’Official on David Hammons’s Day’s End

Catherine Opie, Saints, 1995, C-print, 60 × 40". From left: Divinity Fudge (Darryl Carlton), Ron Athey, Pigpen (Stosh Fila), Julian Carter.

on site

Tavia Nyong’o and Coco Romack on Ron Athey at Participant Inc

Ulrike Ottinger, Paris Calligrammes, 2020, HD video, color and black-and-white, sound, 131 minutes.

film

J. Hoberman on Ulrike Ottinger’s Paris Calligrammes

Chris Torres, Nyan Cat, 2011, GIF.

slant

Tina Rivers Ryan on NFTs

Cover of Gavin Bryars’s Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Point Music, 1993).

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Elias Bender Rønnenfelt

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THE STRANGER

Colby Chamberlain on the art of Dave McKenzie

Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, and Per Olof Ultvedt, Hon—en katedral (She—a Cathedral), 1966, mixed media. Installation view, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Photo: Hans Hammarskiöld. © Hans Hammarskiöld Heritage.

SELF MADE

Johanna Fateman on the art of Niki de Saint Phalle

Chao-Chen Yang, Young Chinese Guerrilla, ca. 1943, chlorobromide print, 16 × 13". © Chao-chen Yang Estate.

CLOSE-UP: FOR ASIAN LIVES TO MATTER

Joan Kee on Chao-Chen Yang’s Apprehension, ca. 1942

Dean Sameshima, Untitled (Blowjob), 2003, C-print, 12 1⁄4 × 9 5⁄8". From the series “Outlaw,” 2003.

CLOSE-UP: INDIFFERENCE AND REPETITION

David Rimanelli on Dean Sameshima’s “Outlaw,” 2003

Luke Libera Moore, Uncertainty Model #1, 2021, digital photograph.

PROJECT: LUKE LIBERA MOORE

Dawn Chan introduces an artist project by Luke Libera Moore

OPENINGS: WHITNEY CLAFLIN

Domenick Ammirati on Whitney Claflin

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KAWS, Untitled (Captain Morgan), 1995, spray paint on billboard. Installation view, Jersey City, New Jersey.

Thomas Crow on KAWS

View of “Jeanne Reynal,” 2021. Photo: Jenny Gorman.

New York

View of “Sasha Wortzel,” 2021. Photo: Pedro Wazzan.

Miami

Erica Dawn Lyle on Sasha Wortzel

Kentaro Kawabata, Batista 1, 2020, porcelain, glass, slag, feldspar, 13 × 30 × 15 3⁄4". From “Sea Change.”

San Francisco

Harry C. H. Choi on “Sea Change”

Caitlin Keogh, Waxing Year 3, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 84 × 63".

Los Angeles

View of “Sameer Farooq,” 2021. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Toronto

Gabrielle Moser on Sameer Farooq

Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Importa qué materias usamos para pensar otras materias (It Matters What Matters We Use to Think Other Matters With), 2020, ink-jet print on cotton paper. 18 1⁄2 × 18 1⁄2". From the series “La resistencia” (The Resistance), 2020.

Mexico City

Fabiola Iza on Verónica Gerber Bicecci

Jaider Esbell, A conversa das entidades intergalácticas para decidir o futuro universal da humanidade (The Conversation of Intergalactic Entities to Decide the Universal Future of Humanity), 2021, acrylic and Posca pen on canvas, 44 1⁄8 × 90 1⁄2".

São Paulo

Ela Bittencourt on Jaider Esbell

Florian and Michael Quistrebert, Waterfall, 2020, sprayed ink on burlap, 78 3⁄4 × 118 1⁄8".

Paris

Rafael Tur Costa, untitled, 1987, graphite, colored pencil, and paper on canvas, 51 1⁄8 × 38 1⁄4".

Palma de Mallorca

Joaquín Jesús Sánchez on Rafael Tur Costa

Alberto Savinio, Les Dioscures (The Dioscuri), 1929, oil on canvas, 25 5⁄8 × 21 1⁄4".

Rome

Ida Panicelli on Alberto Savinio

Enrico David, Il fraterno silenzio del fango (The Fraternal Silence of Mud), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 9' 1 1⁄2" × 14' 8".

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Enrico David

View of “John Coplans and Michael Schmidt: The Lingering Drama of the Body,” 2020–21. From left: John Coplans, Self Portrait, Frieze No. 5, 1994; Michael Schmidt, works from the series “Frauen” (Women), 1997–99. Photo: Gerhard Kassner.

Berlin

View of “Dorothy Iannone and Juliette Blightman: The Köln Concert,” 2020–21. Photo: Mareike Tocha.

Cologne

Camila McHugh on Dorothy Iannone and Juliette Blightman

Amber Ablett, Rehearsal for A Change Gonna Come, 2021, three-channel HD video installation, color, sound, 25 minutes. Installation view. Photo: Vegard Kleven.

Oslo

Maria Horvei on Amber Ablett

Aleksandra Kasuba, Live-In Environment, 1971–72, mixed media. Installation view.

Vilnius

Neringa Černiauskaitė on Aleksandra Kasuba

Extrastruggle, Bureau for Registering the Sufferings Caused by Former Governments, 2021, laser-cut iron, 12 1⁄4 × 44 7⁄8 × 1".

Istanbul

Kaya Genç on Extrastruggle

Stephanie Comilang, Diaspora Ad Astra, 2020, HD video, color, sound, 5 minutes 25 seconds.

Abu Dhabi

Rahel Aima on Stephanie Comilang

Latifah Iddriss, The greener grass on the other side of the fence [seems rather red], 2020, grass, paint, mirrors, wooden bases weighted with sand. Installation view. From “Stations of Protest.” Photo: M+.

Accra

Ayodeji Rotinwa on “Stations of Protest”

Shih Meng Hsin, ( ), 2020, iron,wood, lightbulbs. Installation view. Photo: Kagaw Omin.

Taipei

Travis Jeppesen on Shih Meng Hsin

View of “Choi Byungso: Sens et Non-Sens: Works from 1974–2020,” 2020–21. From top: Untitled, 2019; Untitled 016000, 2016.

Seoul

Adela Kim on Choi Byungso

Heman Chong, Call for the Dead #25, 2020, silk-screened acrylic on linen, 18 1⁄8 × 24". From the eighty-three-part suite Call for the Dead, 2020.

Singapore

Samantha Kuok Leese on Heman Chong

Archie Moore, Family Tree, 2021, conté crayon and blackboard paint on MDF. Installation view. Photo: Zan Wimberley.

Sydney

Toni Ross on Archie Moore