TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2003

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Cover: Philip Guston, Feet on Rug (detail), 1978, oil on canvas, 80 x 104". Inset: Jack Goldstein, The Jump (detail), 1978, still from a color film in 16 mm, 26 seconds.

May 2003, Vol. 41, No. 9

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COLUMNS

Steven Klein and Madonna, Kidney, 2003, color photograph, 70 x 86".

SLANT

Rhonda Lieberman on Madonna

PASSAGES

Chrissie Iles on Jack Goldstein

Aki Kaurismäki, The Man Without a Past, 2002, production still. Irma (Kati Outinen) and the Man (Markku Peltola).

FILM

Geoffrey O’Brien on Geoffrey O’Brien on The Man Without a Past

MUSIC

Matthew Higgs on Throbbing Gristle

top ten

Guy Richards Smit

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John Elderfield with Penetrable by Jesús Soto, Museo de Arte Moderna Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela 1999.

US News

John Elderfield

Clockwise from top right: Sam Durant, Like, man, I’m tired of waiting, 2002, vinyl text on electric sign, 59 x 66“. Glenn Brown, Kill Yourself, 2002, oil on panel, 32 1/4 x 27”. Carol Rama, Appasionata, 1941, watercolor on paper, 17 x 12 1/2". All from “Delays and Revolutions.”

World Report

the Venice Biennale

Left: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, L’Accordée de village (Marriage contract), 1761, oil on canvas, 35 x 461/2“. Right: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, La Piété filiale (Filial piety), 1763, oil on canvas, 45 1/4 x 57 1/2”.

Vault

“The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard”

Travel Brief

Exhibitions on the road

Regional Exhibitions

40 shows worldwide

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Philip Guston in his studio, Woodstock, New York, 1964.

TELLING TALES: PHILIP GUSTON IN RETROSPECT

David Anfam

1000 WORDS: SIMON STARLING

Tom Vanderbilt

FEAST FOR THE EYES: THE ART OF RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER

Daniel Birnbaum

PORTFOLIO: STEPHEN SHORE

Walead Beshty

Johnnie To, Fulltime Killer, still from a color film in 35 mm, 102 minutes. Chin (Kelly Lin) and Tok (Andy Lau).

LOUDER THAN WORDS: THE FILMS OF JOHNNIE TO

David Bordwell

OPENINGS: URS FISCHER

Alison M. Gingeras

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Roberta Smith on “Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle”

Tim Griffin on “Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle”

Laura Owens, Untitled, 1998, acrylic and oil on canvas, 84 x 96".

Howard Singerman on Laura Owens

Clockwise from top left: Donald Judd, Untitled, 1960, oil on canvas, 65 x 49 1/2“. Donald Judd, Untitled, 1955, oil on canvas, 31 x 36 3/4”. Donald Judd, Untitled, 1961, oil on Masonite and wood with aluminum pan, 48 1/8 x 36 1/8 x 4“. Donald Judd, Untitled, ca. 1950, oil on canvas, 30 3/8 x 24”.

Lane Relyea on “Donald Judd: Early Work 1955–1968”

Katy Siegel on Sigmar Polke

Vienna

Sabine B. Vogel on Ulrike Lienbacher

Atlanta

Philip Auslander on Mélik Ohanian

Minneapolis

Patricia Briggs on Santiago Cucullu

Berkeley

Glen Helfand on Fred Wilson

Los Angeles

Santiago de Compostela

Alexandre Melo on Antonio Murado

Turin

Alessandra Pioselli on Marco Vaglieri

Milan

Francesca Pasini on Adrian Paci

Paris

Guitemie Maldonado on Gabriel Orozco

Berlin

Harald Fricke on Peter Robinson

Graz, Austria

Brigitte Huck on “Routes”

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Stephan Dillemuth

Frankfurt

Sabine B. Vogel on “Shopping”

London

Dublin

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith on Shane Cullen

Stockholm

Liutauras Psibilskis on Ceal Floyer

New York

Boston

Miles Unger on Adam Fuss

Boston/New York

Francine Koslow Miller on Chen Zhen