TABLE OF CONTENTS

April 2021

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April 2021, Vol. 59, No. 8

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Barbara Rose, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1971. Photo: Hannah Wilke. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

passages

Margit Rowell on Barbara Rose

SOPHIE, 2019. Photo: Renata Raksha.

passages

Sasha Geffen on SOPHIE

Page from Anne de Vries’s Deep Scroll (Onomatopee, 2020).

books

Nora N. Khan on Anne de Vries’s Deep Scroll

Leonora Carrington, And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur, 1953, oil on canvas, 23 5⁄8 × 27 1⁄2". © Estate of Leonora Carrington/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

books

Chloe Wyma on The Tarot of Leonora Carrington

Arthur Jafa, Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death, 2016, video, color and black-and-white, sound, 7 minutes 25 seconds.

slant

Julia Pelta Feldman on the limits of accessibility

South Park, 1997–, still from a TV show on Comedy Central. Season 11, episode 10, “Imaginationland.”

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Adam Curtis

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Victor Baldwin’s “Hang In There, Baby” poster, 1971.

THE COME DOWN; OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING

Sam McKinniss on the art of Catherine Czudej, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, and Luke O’Halloran

SOUND EFFECTS

Ina Blom on the art of Florian Hecker

Jack Pierson, Silver Jackie, 1991, plywood, silver Mylar, Christmas lights, 96 × 48 1⁄4 × 48".

CLOSE-UP: STAGES OF GRIEF

David Rimanelli on Jack Pierson’s Silver Jackie, 1991

Wickerham & Lomax, The Migration 7.25/8.11 Bag, 2021, digital rendering.

PROJECT: WICKERHAM & LOMAX

Jeff Gibson

Mug shots of Félix Fénéon, April 26, 1894. Photos: Alphonse Bertillon.

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen on Félix Fénéon

Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Reflection Paper no. 3, 2013–14, HD video, color, sound, 7 minutes 31 seconds.

OPENINGS: EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG

Karen Archey on the art of Evelyn Taocheng Wang

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Victor Brauner, La rencontre du 2 bis, rue Perrel (The Meeting at 2 bis, rue Perrel), 1946, oil on canvas, 33 1⁄2 × 41 3⁄8". © ADAGP, Paris.

Mara Hoberman on Victor Brauner

Mernet Larsen, Gurney (after El Lissitzky), 2019, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 45 1⁄4 × 70".

New York

Raúl de Nieves, Fina Vision, 2019, vintage military suit, sequins, metal bells, threads, glue, cardboard, plastic beads, tape, trims, mannequin, dimensions variable.

Miami

Alpesh Kantilal Patel on Raúl de Nieves

View of “Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash,” 2020. Photo: Carlos Avendaño.

Philadelphia

C.C. McKee on Jonathan Lyndon Chase

William Kentridge, Nine Trees, 2012, linocut on pages from Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, overall 42 1⁄2 × 33".

Laramie

Dan Beachy-Quick on William Kentridge

Alvin Baltrop, The Piers (exterior with couple having sex), 1975–86, gelatin silver print, 2 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄2".

Los Angeles

Carlos Leppe, Proyecto de demolición de la cordillera de los Andes (Project to Demolish the Andean Mountains), 1985/2020, wooden column, chalk, bricks. Installation view. From “La exposición olvidada y una lectura a cuatro artistas chilenos” (The Forgotten Exhibition and a Reading of Four Chilean Artists). Photo: Pedro Silva.

Santiago

Mariairis Flores Leiva on “The Forgotten Exhibition and a Reading of Four Chilean Artists”

Adriana Varejão, Mapa de Lopo Homem II (Map of Lopo Homem II), 2004, suture thread and oil on wood, 43 1⁄4 × 55 × 3 7⁄8".

Rio de Janeiro

Felipe Scovino on “Engraved into the Body”

Cooking Sections, Salmon: A Red Herring, 2020–21, removal of farmed salmon from the institution’s menu, cyclorama, powder-coated steel, silk, ETC ColorSource CYC lights, ETC Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr lights, sound. Installation view. Photo: Lucy Dawkins.

London

Izabella Scott on Cooking Sections

Yuri Pattison, sun_set pro_vision (detail), 2020–21, OpenGL software, modified Dell PowerEdge R420, GeForce GTX 1650 GPUs, uRADMonitor model A3 atmospheric monitor, HD digital-signage monitors, Dexion slotted angles, aluminum EUR pallets, Dell PowerEdge R420 server chassis, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (book), decapped GPU chip, cables, Ethernet switch, padlock. Installation view. Photo: Louis Haugh.

Dublin

Declan Long on Yuri Pattison

View of “Daniel Buren and Philippe Parreno: Simultanément, travaux in situ et en mouvement” (Simultaneously, Works in Situ and in Motion), 2020–21.

Paris

Mara Hoberman on Daniel Buren and Philippe Parreno

James Casebere, Blue House on Water #2, 2019, ink-jet print, 69 1⁄2 × 48 7⁄8".

Madrid

Joaquín Jesús Sánchez on James Casebere

Kiluanji Kia Henda, Melilla Fence—Module IV (Hotel Flamingo), 2019, three square metal fences, neon sign. Installation view. Photo: Teresa Santos.

Lisbon

Ana Teixeira Pinto on Kiluanji Kia Henda

Franco Vimercati, Esposizioni multiple (Multiple Exposures), 1999/2020, five gelatin silver prints, each 12 × 9 5⁄8".

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Franco Vimercati

Ali Banisadr, Rhizome, 2019, oil on linen, 48 × 60".

Athens

Cathryn Drake on Ali Banisadr

View of “Isa Genzken: Works from 1973 to 1983,” 2020–21. From left: Gelbes Ellipsoid (Yellow Ellipsoid), 1976; Grau-grünes Hyperbolo “Jülich” (Gray-Green Hyperbolo “Jülich”), 1979. Photo: Gina Folly.

Basel

Daniel Horn on Isa Genzken

Sheila Hicks, Apprentissages de la Victoire, 2008–16, wool, coconut fiber. Installation view. Photo: Georg Mayer.

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Sheila Hicks

Anna Boghiguian, Promenade dans l’inconscient (A Walk in the Unconscious), 2016, wax, pigment, graphite pencil, wood, denim, metal. Installation view. Photo: Dirk Pauwels.

Ghent

Noemi Smolik on Anna Boghiguian

Mariola Przyjemska, Little Cannons (One-Niners), 2005, gouache on cardboard, 27 1⁄2 × 19 5⁄8". From the series “Cosmetics,” 1997–2005.

Warsaw

Camila McHugh on Mariola Przyjemska

Cassi Namoda, Armando from Zambezi province late to meet beloved, a tragedy, 2020, oil and acrylic on cotton-polyester, 48 × 36".

Johannesburg

Portia Malatjie on Cassi Namoda

Sohrab Hura, The Lost Head & The Bird, 2016–19, video projection, sound, color, 10 minutes 13 seconds.

Kolkata

Meera Menezes on Sohrab Hura

Qiu Xiaofeng, Red, 2020, oil on canvas, 78 3⁄4 × 118 1⁄8".

Beijing

Sun Dongdong on Qiu Xiaofei

View of “You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet,” 2020–21. From left: Aruwai Kaumakan, The Axis of Life, 2018; Aruwai Kaumakan, Vines in the Mountains, 2020. From the Taipei Biennial 2020.

Taipei

Travis Jeppesen on Taipei Biennial

Lee Seung Taek, Untitled (Burning Canvases Floating on the River), ca. 1988, C-print, 32 1⁄8 × 45 5⁄8".

Seoul

Harry C. H. Choi on Lee Seung Taek

Ralph Hotere, Black Phoenix, 1984–88, burnt wood, metal. Installation view.

Dunedin

Lucinda Bennett on Ralph Hotere