TABLE OF CONTENTS

November 2019

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November 2019, Vol. 58, No. 3

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Kamal Boullata, Paris, March 1997. Photo: Serge Picard/Agence VU/Redux.

passages

Nasser Rabbat on KAMAL BOULLATA

Still from Brett Story’s The Hottest August, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 95 minutes.

film

Erika Balsom on Brett Story’s The Hottest August

Still from Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Die Kinder der Toten (The Children of the Dead), 2019, Super 8, color, sound, 90 minutes. Zombies (Eugen Gross, Naima Schmidt, Marina Rakic).

film

Jennifer Krasinski on Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Die Kinder der Toten

Anicka Yi’s Biography fragrances, 2019. From left: Radical Hopelessness, Shigenobu Twilight, Beyond Skin.

fashion

Natasha Stagg on Anicka Yi’s Biography

Marianne Brandt, Untitled (Airplane, Soldiers and Military Cemetery), ca. 1930, collage on cardboard, 25 5⁄8 × 19 3⁄4". © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

books

J. Hoberman on Elizabeth Otto’s Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

Robert Williams, Death on the Boards, 1992, oil on canvas, 60 × 84".

books

Dan Nadel on Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia, ca. early 1970s.

ON SITE

Kate Sutton on the reconstructions of Skopje

Product shot for Floss Editions’ “Sappho Hat,” 2019.

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JULIANA SPAHR

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Georgia Sagri, Attempt. Come., 2016. Performance view, Parko Eleftherias, Athens, September 17, 2016. (Duration 24 hours.) Georgia Sagri. From Documenta 14. Photo: Stathis Mamalakis.

CHAOS CÉLÈBRE

Domenick Ammirati on the art of Georgia Sagri

Ulla Wiggen, Vägledare (Microcircuit), 1967, acrylic on wooden panel, 27 1⁄2 × 27 1⁄2".

CLOSED CIRCUIT

Ina Blom on the art of Ulla Wiggen

Still from Matt Wolf’s Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 87 minutes. Marion Stokes.

1000 WORDS: MATT WOLF

MATT WOLF TALKS ABOUT RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

Pierre Bonnard, Baigneurs à la fin du jour (Bathers at the End of the Day), ca. 1945, oil on canvas, 19 1⁄8 × 27 1⁄2".

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS

Bruce Hainley on “Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory”

Kidlat Tahimik, Ang Ma-bagyong Sabungan ng 2 Bathala ng Hangin, A Stormy Clash Between 2 Goddesses of the Winds (WW III– the Protracted Kultur War), 2019, wood, C-prints, video projection (color, sound, 50 seconds), audio, mosaics, rattan core, figurines, ritual objects, bamboo loom, wrought-iron launchpads, fiberglass, fishing boats, sawdust, tree root, bamboo fences, fauna. Installation view, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah. From Sharjah Biennial 14. Photo: Haupt & Binder/Universes in Universe.

LIGHTNING STRIKES

Murtaza Vali on the art of Kidlat Tahimik

Derek Jarman, Fuck Me Blind, 1993, oil on canvas, 98 7⁄8 × 70 1⁄2". From the series “Evil Queen,” 1993.

CLOSE-UP: NAKED EYE

Declan Long on Derek Jarman’s Fuck Me Blind, 1993

Stephanie Syjuco, Cargo Cults: Cover-Up, 2016, ink-jet print, 20 × 16". From the series “Cargo Cults,” 2016.

OPENINGS: STEPHANIE SYJUCO

Jessica Baran

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Ursula Mayer, The Fire of Knowledge Burns All Karma to Ashes, 2019, HD video, color, silent, indefinite duration. Büyükada, Istanbul.

Gökcan Demirkazik on 16th Istanbul Biennial

Robert Colescott, Les Demoiselles d’Alabama: Vistidas, 1985, acrylic on canvas, 96 × 92".

Barry Schwabsky on Robert Colescott

Maruch Sántiz Gómez, Pedazos de tortilla quemada y lo mordido por el ratón (Pieces of Burnt Tortilla and Bitten by the Mouse), 1994, gelatin silver print on paper, 22 5⁄8 × 18 3⁄4". From the series “Creencias” (Beliefs), 1994–96. From “Los huecos del agua” (The Gaps of Water).

Mexico City

Fabiola Iza on “The Gaps of Water: Recent Indigenous Art from Mexico”

Eduardo Navarro, Instant Weather Prediction, 2019. Performance view, June 15, 2019. Photo: Erika Mayumi.

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Eduardo Navarro

Liz Johnson Artur, Women’s Corner, 2019, mixed media, dimensions variable.

London

Louise Bourgeois, Legs, 1986, rubber, each 10' 3“ × 2” × 2".

Somerset

Emily LaBarge on “Unconscious Landscape”

Patrick Staff, The Prince of Homburg, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 23 minutes.

Dundee

Calum Sutherland on Patrick Staff

Marinella Pirelli, Film ambiente (Environmental Screen), 1969/2004, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Milan

Kari Rittenbach on Marinella Pirelli

Gerold Miller, instant vision 156, 2019, lacquered aluminum, 110 1⁄4 × 110 1⁄4 × 5 7⁄8".

Florence

Giorgio Verzotti on Gerold Miller

Anne Neukamp, Clearance, 2019, oil, tempera, and acrylic on linen, 39 3⁄8 × 31 1⁄2".

Berlin

Pieter Vermeersch, 8 Paintings I, 1999, eight oil-on-canvas paintings, each 16 1⁄2 × 13 3⁄4".

LEUVEN, BELGIUM

Francesca Pola on Pieter Vermeersch

Samson Young, To Fanon (Resonance Studies I) 02 Doloroso, 2016, mixed media, 11 3/4 × 16 1/2". From the series “To Fanon,” 2016–.

Amsterdam

Gökcan Demirkazik on Steffani Jemison and Samson Young

View of “Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic,” 2019.

Bergen

Adam Kleinman on “Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic”

Vilhelm Hammershøi, A Room in the Artist’s Home in Strandgade, Copenhagen, with the Artist’s Wife, 1902, oil on canvas, 25 × 23 5⁄8".

Copenhagen

Fredrik Svensk on “There I Belong: Hammershøi by Elmgreen & Dragset”

Agata Słowak, Love, 2019, oil on canvas, 55 1⁄8 × 44 1⁄4". From “Paint, also known as Blood.”

Warsaw

Agata Pyzik on “Paint, also known as Blood”

Sachiko Kazama, Nonhuman Crossing, 2013, woodcut, 5' 8 7⁄8“ × 11' 8 3⁄4”. From the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Franz Thalmair on 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts

Nejat Sati, Nelumbo Nucifera, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 14 1⁄8 × 10 5⁄8".

Istanbul

Kaya Genç on Nejat Sati

Amir Khojasteh, Study after the Romanian Blouse by Henri Matisse #2, 2019, oil on canvas, 17 3⁄4 × 11 3⁄4".

Dubai

Rahel Aima on Amir Khojasteh

Godfried Donkor, St. Peter, 2019, oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on linen, 49 1⁄4 × 30 3⁄4".

Accra

Ayodeji Rotinwa on Godfried Donkor

Yang Shen, Garden Oddity, 2016, oil on canvas, 82 5⁄8 × 66 7⁄8".

Shanghai

Travis Jeppesen on “An Opera for Animals”

View of “Steaphan Paton.” 2019.

Melbourne

Helen Hughes on Steaphan Paton

Kurt Schwitters, Ohne Titel (Standrad mit Holz) (Untitled [Standard with Wood]), 1947, mixed media, 10 × 6 3⁄4".

New York

View of “Charlotte Posenenske,” 2019.

Beacon

Chloe Wyma on Charlotte Posenenske

Tallur L. N., Chromatophobia, 2012, mixed media, 91 × 78 × 89".

Hamilton, New Jersey

Murtaza Vali on Tallur L. N.

View of “Vaughn Spann,” 2019. Foreground: Who shall be held accountable?, 2019. Background: Lost in the cosmos of black bodies (we love you, we will always remember you), 2019.

Miami

Monica Uszerowicz on Vaughn Spann

View of “FMSBWTÖZÄU PGGIV-..?MÜ (FOR STEPHEN FOSTER),” 2019.

Chicago

Michelle Grabner on “FMSBWTÖZÄU PGGIV-..?MÜ (FOR STEPHEN FOSTER)”

Dyani White Hawk, Untitled (Quiet Strength I), 2015, acrylic on canvas, 42 × 42".

Minneapolis

Candice Hopkins on “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists”

View of “Pippa Garner,” 2019.

Los Angeles