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October/November 2020

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October/November 2020, Vol. 59, No. 2

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COLUMNS

Tsai Ming-liang’s Rizi (Days), 2020, 4K video, color, sound, 127 minutes. Kang (Lee Kang-sheng).

film

Erika Balsom on Tsai Ming-liang’s Days

Herman Howard, Untitled, 1965, gelatin silver print, 11 × 14". © Herman Howard/The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.

photography

Emmanuel Iduma on the Kamoinge Workshop

Photograph from one of Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s photo albums, ca. 1862.

on site

Christina Catherine Martinez on “Sisi in Private”

Comic

Alexandro Segade’s Fall of the Death Cult

Jasper Johns, Flag Study, 1959, watercolor and graphite on found paper envelope, 4 1/8 × 9 1/2". © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

off site

Michael Lobel on art and the United States Postal Service

Graphic from Vinctum’s YouTube video “Future Proves Past—Project Looking Glass,” 2020.

slant

Paige K. Bradley on QAnon

Marwa Arsanios, Have you ever killed a bear? or Becoming Jamila, 2013–14, HD video, color, sound, 25 minutes. From “Nine Lives,” 2020, Renaissance Society, Chicago.

slant

Lauren O’Neill-Butler on the Feminist Art Coalition

Ari Up performing with the Slits at the Coliseum, London, March 11, 1977. Photo: Ian Dickson/Shutterstock.

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Akeem Smith

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Park McArthur, Ramps, 2010-2014, 20 access ramps from various art institutions, 5 aluminum signs, vinyl wall text, dimensions variable, detail [An artwork in the form of a web address rendered in black adhesive vinyl lettering adhered to a white wall spelling out: h t t p s colon forward slash forward slash e n dot wikipedia dot org forward slash wiki forward slash capital m marta underscore capital r russell.]

CRITICAL CARE

Colby Chamberlain on the art of Park McArthur

Luciano Perna, April 22 2020 6:46 pm Schlumbergera, 2020, ink-jet print, 17 × 22".

PANDEMIC FLOWERS

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on the art of Luciano Perna

Sirine Fattouh, Fida Bizri, and Sylvie Ballyot’s children’s art workshop, Beirut, August 19, 2020. Photo: Sirine Fattouh.

ON THE GROUND: BEIRUT

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Beirut after the blast

PROJECTS: ART OF THE POSSIBLE

Sue Coe, Stamped Out, 2020, linocut with hand-coloring on paper, 10 3/8 × 8 1/2".

PROJECT: SUE COE

Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Sue Coe’s ominous rallying cries

Jennifer Bolande, twelve diptychs from the series and film “The Composition of Decomposition,” 2016–18.

PROJECT: JENNIFER BOLANDE

Judith Bernstein, Gasligting, 2019, acrylic and oil on canvas, 89 1/2 × 88 1/2".

PROJECT: JUDITH BERNSTEIN

Tala Madani, Situation Room, 2020, oil on linen, 16 × 23".

PROJECT: TALA MADANI

PROJECT: RENÉE GREEN

PROJECT: KENNY SCHARF

Taryn Simon, Black Square XXIV, Former Vice President Joe Biden, 2020, ink-jet print, 31 3/4 × 31 3/4". From the series “Black Square,” 2006–.

PROJECT: TARYN SIMON

Tomashi Jackson, Time and Space (Blue), 2020, Pentelic marble dust on election ephemera, acrylic, paper bags, canvas, 81 1/2 × 76 1/2".

PROJECT: TOMASHI JACKSON

Amarie Gipson on Tomashi Jackson and voter suppression

Ken Okiishi, Vital Behaviors, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 64 minutes. Brian Altemus.

CLOSE-UP: THIRST TRAP

Laura McLean-Ferris on Ken Okiishi’s Vital Behaviors, 2019

Garrett Bradley, America, 2019, three-channel 35 mm transferred to 4K video projection, black-and-white, sound, 23 minutes 55 seconds. Production still.

CLOSE-UP: LOST AND FOUND

Amy Taubin on Garrett Bradley’s Time, 2020, and America, 2019

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Lantian Xie, When I Move, You Move, 2020, wearable motors, cloth bands, battery case, tablet, vinyl vests, packaged food, packaged drinks, cigarette boxes, light box, urethane foam, HD video (color, sound, 5 minutes 24 seconds). Installation view. Photo: Keita Otsuka.

Du Keke on Yokohama Triennale 2020

Lisa Alvarado, Thalweg (Traditional Object), 2020, acrylic, fabric, wood, 76 × 82". From the series “Traditional Object,” 2010–.

New York

Hernan Bas, The Revelation in the Rambles, 2020, acrylic on linen, 72 × 60". From “The Circus Has Been Cancelled.”

East Hampton

Zoë Lescaze on “The Circus Has Been Cancelled”

View of “Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago,” 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Photo: Kendall McCaugherty.

Chicago

Joe Light, Joe Light, 1986, house paint on plywood, 22 × 13 1/4".

Lexington

Ashton Cooper on Joe Light

J. Parker Valentine, Untitled, 2020, ink, graphite, water-soluble colored pencil, and thread on canvas, 68 3/4 × 68 3/4".

Los Angeles

Adriana Lestido, Untitled, 1992, gelatin silver print on fiber paper, 9 1/2 × 14 5/8". From the series “Mujeres presas” (Imprisoned Women), 1991–93. From “Pensar todo de nuevo” (Rethink Everything).

Buenos Aires

Mariairis Flores on “Pensar todo de nuevo”

Khadija Saye, Limoŋ, 2017, silk screen on vinyl, 24 1/8 × 19 3/4". © The Estate of Khadija Saye.

London

Niele Toroni, Empreintes de pinceau N°50 à intervalles réguliers de 30 cm (Brush Impressions No. 50 at Regular Intervals of 30 cm), 2020, collage and acrylic on foam board, 25 5/8 × 19 3/4".

Paris

Tomoo Gokita, Regina #2, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 76 3/8 × 63 3/4".

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Tomoo Gokita

Radenko Milak, Drone delivers aid to people amid the lockdown measures to halt the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Catapilco, Valparaiso Region, Chile, April, 2020, watercolor on paper, 13 3/4 × 9 3/4".

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Radenko Milak

Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller, Das neunte Jahresportrait (The Ninth Year Portrait) (detail), 2012–13, 314 gelatin silver prints, 13 C-prints mounted on eleven cardboard plates, each 16 × 19 3/4". From the series “Jahresportraits” (Year Portraits), ca. 1972–.

Salzburg

Brigitte Huck on Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller

Tony Just, Sweet bitter, 2020, oil, acrylic, and graphite on canvas, 59 × 78 3/4".

Berlin

Henrik Olesen, intestine, black, red, horizontal, 2020, oil and mixed media on canvas, 15 3/4 × 19 3/4".

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Henrik Olesen

Luca Frei, Model for a Pedagogical Vehicle, 2018, powder-coated steel, fabric, digital prints on PVC, paper objects. Installation view, 2020.

Malmö

Fredrik Svensk on Luca Frei

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Promised Lands, 2015–18, video, color, sound, 20 minutes. From “El sauce ve de cabeza la imagen de la garza” (The Willow Sees the Heron’s Image Upside Down).

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Javier Montes on “El sauce ve de cabeza la imagen de la garza”

Jasmina Metwaly, Anbar (Badrawi’s atelier), 2019, 2K video, color, sound, 19 minutes 10 seconds. Installation view, 2020.

Bialystok

Magdalena Ziółkowska on Jasmina Metwaly

Mehmet Sinan Kuran, Le pain quotidien (Daily Bread), 2020, ink on found photograph, 14 3/8 × 10 3/8".

Istanbul

Kaya Genç on Mehmet Sinan Kuran

N. N. Rimzon, The Round Ocean and the Living Death, 2019–20, fiberglass, granite dust, plywood. Installation view, 2020.

New Delhi

Meera Menezes on N. N. Rimzon

Guan Xiao, Messenger, 2020, pigmented bronze, lacquered porcelain, bicycle parts, dried flowers, 72 7/8 × 43 1/4 × 16 1/8".

Shanghai

Travis Jeppesen on Guan Xiao

Alex Cuffe, When the anaesthetic wore off the lights were so bright . . . the only thing they could offer was this washcloth . . . I woke up screaming . . . all they could offer was this washcloth . . . the first words I remember were addressed to a body of a different gender . . . I held the nurses hand smiling while my first words were to correct her . . . and all I have left is a washcloth that will never be clean, 2019, cotton cloth, hair dye, 17 3/4 × 13 3/4".

Melbourne

Helen Hughes on Alex Cuffe