SHOW PIECE

Bill Arning, Mark Van de Walle, Ernest Pascucci, Bruce Hainley, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Pascaline Cuvelier, Yilmaz Dziewior, Harald Fricke, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Richard Shone, Daniel Birnbaum, Robert Leonard, Katia Canton on New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Venice, Turin, Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Stockholm, Liverpool, London, Brisbane

FILM

David Rimanelli on Basquiat

BOOKS

Gary Indiana on Obscene Bodies

GADGET LOVE

R. U. Sirius on Nanotechnology

MUSIC

Ben Ratliff on Keiji Haino

MUSIC

Katherine Dieckmann on The Mekons

MUSIC

Diedrich Diederichsen on Table of the Elements

MUSIC

Mark Van de Walle on Two Dollar Guitar

LETTER

Jérôme Sans on Musée de l’objet

LETTER

Miriam Rosen on Civic Art

LETTER

Olivier Zahm on Île de Beauté

LETTER

Jean-Pierre Criqui on Paris

hotlist

Mark Van de Walle on Web Sounds

top ten

Glenn O’Brien

SPLIT DECISIONS: JASPER JOHNS IN RETROSPECT

Whole in Two

Rosalind E. Krauss

One for All

Christopher Knight

CLOSELY WATCHED TRAIN

Jack Bankowsky talks with Christopher Münch

BRINGING UP INDIE

Peter Bowen talks with Andrea Sperling

A PROJECT FOR ARTFORUM: KARA E. WALKER

Introduction by Thelma Golden

ROBERT RYMAN, “STANDARD,” 1967

Klaus Kertess

FLASH TRACK: STEVEN KLEIN PHOTOGRAPHS ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Bruce Hainley

OPENINGS: JENNIFER PASTOR

David A. Greene

Robert Rosenblum on Dinos and Jake Chapman

David Rimanelli on Damien Hirst

Richard Shone on Leon Kossoff

Lane Relyea on Lari Pittman

Daniel Birnbaum on “Manifesta I”

Carol Ockman on “Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities”

New York

• Barry Schwabsky on Jim Dine

• Barry Schwabsky on Ghada Amer

• Bruce Hainley on Alex Katz

• Mark Van de Walle on Uta Barth

• Joshua Decter on Catherine Opie

• Nico Israel on Michel François

• David Frankel on Amy Sillman

• Donald Kuspit on Richard Artschwager

• Tom Moody on Mark Dagley

• David Levi Strauss on “The Eye Of The Beholder: Seven Contemporary Swiss Photographers”

• Marek Bartelik on Adja Yunkers

• Faye Hirsch on Dominique Figarella

• Nicolai Ouroussoff on Lilly Reich

Boston

• Francine Koslow Miller on Naoto Nakagawa

Chicago

• James Yood on Jeanne Dunning

Minneapolis

• Julie Caniglia on “Beat Culture And The New America: 1950–1965”

Los Angeles

• Andrew Perchuk on Charles Long

• Lisa Anne Auerbach on Patty Wickman

Santiago de Compostela

• José Luis Brea on Vito Acconci

Rome

• Massimo Carboni on Ange Leccia

Naples

• Marco Meneguzzo on Eugenio Giliberti

Fribourg

• Hans Rudolf Reust on Thomas Hirschhorn

Paris

• Miriam Rosen on Jonas Mekas

Bonn

• Donald Kuspit on “China! Das Kunstmuseum Bonn Zeigt's”

Cologne

• Yilmaz Dziewior on Simone Westerwinter

Hamburg

• Yilmaz Dziewior on Carsten Höller

Antwerp

• Jos Van den Bergh on Guillaume Bijl

London

• James Hall on Edward Lipski

Leeds

• James Hall on Jasper Johns