TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2002

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Cover: Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum I, Berlin (detail), 2001, color photograph, 77 5/8 x 97 3/4". Inset: Matthew Barney, CREMASTER 3 (detail), 2002, production still from a color film in 35 mm, 182 minutes. From “Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle.”

May 2002, Vol. 40, No. 9

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COLUMNS

LETTERS

LETTERS

FIRST BREAK

Vince Aletti on First Break

NEWS

Steven Henry Madoff on Venetian Brass: Steven Henry Madoff on the Biennale Brouhaha

NEWS

Peter Plagens on Safe and Sound: Peter Plagens on Neal Benezra

Eric Rohmer, L’Anglaise et le Duc/The Lady and the Duke, 2002, stills from a color film in 35 mm, 129 minutes. Grace Elliott (Lucy Russell) fleeing Paris.

FILM

Geoffrey O’Brien on Noblesse Obliged: Geoffrey O’Brien on Eric Rohmer

SLANT

Bruce Hainley on Ron Galella

BOOKS

Simon Watney on Douglas Crimp

hotlist

Maciej Wisniewski

top ten

Steve Lafreniere

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Left: Park Fiction, Planungscontainer und provisorische Parkbenutzung (Planning container for provisional park use), 1998. Hamburg, Germany. Right: Zacharias Kunuk/Igloolik Isuma Productions, Atanarjuat (The fast runner), 2000, still from a color film in 35 mm, 172 minutes.

World Report

Documenta11, plus a roster of participating artists

Travel Brief

Exhibitions on the road

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Xie Kitchin, ca. 1875, black-and-white photograph, 4 1/2 x 6 5/8".

Vault

Lewis Carroll

Regional Exhibitions

Forty shows worldwide

Left and right: Matthew Barney, CREMASTER 3, 2002, production still from a color film, 182 minutes.

Focus Preview

“Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle,” at Museum Ludwig, Cologne

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Thomas Struth, Milan Cathedral (facade), Milan, 1998, color photograph, 69 x 87 1/4".

PARADISE REFRAMED: THOMAS STRUTH IN RETROSPECT

Daniel Birnbaum

1000 WORDS: THOMAS STRUTH

Hans Rudolf Reust

TALE OF THE TAPE: RADICAL SOFTWARE

David Joselit

Anne Truitt, Hardcastle, 1962, acrylic on wood, 96 3/4 x 42 x 16".

GRAND ALLUSION

James Meyer talks with Anne Truitt

MILD ABOUT LARRY: 2002 WHITNEY BIENNIAL

Bob Nickas, Bruce Hainley, George Baker, and Saul Anton

Bob Nickas

Bruce Hainley

George Baker

Saul Anton

HUNGRY EYE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF SUZANNE DOPPELT

Avital Ronell and Ulrich Baer

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Jeff Weinstein on Yinka Shonibare

David Rimanelli on Francesco Vezzoli

Eva Hesse, Untitled, 1969; Untitled (Rope Piece) (detail), 1969-70. Installation view.

Pamela M. Lee on Eva Hesse

André Derain, Woman in a Chemise, 1906, oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8".

Richard Shone on “Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900–1968”

Paris

Jean-Max Colard on Bruno Serralongue

Los Angeles

Ottawa

Janine Marchessault on Lynne Cohen

Porto

Alexandre Melo on Atom Egoyan / Julião Sarmento

Seville

Pablo Llorca on Alberto García Alix

Madrid

Juan Vicente Aliaga on La Ribot

Rome

Mario Codognato on Max Renkel

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Lily van der Stokker

London

Zurich

Hans Rudolf Reust on Bernard Voïta / Frank Thiel

Winterthur, Switzerland

Hans Rudolf Reust on Nic Hess

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on “Die Gewalt is der Rand aller Dinge"

Berlin

Jennifer Allen on Vibeke Tandberg

Melbourne

Charles Green on Patricia Piccinini

New York

Chicago

James Yood on Conor McGrady