TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summer 2004

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John Waters, Visit Marfa, 2003, six-color inkscreen poster printed on clayboard, 33 x 22".

Summer 2004, Vol. 42, No. 10

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COLUMNS

LETTERS

LETTERS

BOOKS

Caroline A. Jones on Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History

FILM

Thad Ziolkowski on Riding Giants

FILM

Isaac Julien on Baadasssss!

President George W. Bush aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2003. Photo: AP/Tyler J. Clements.

MEDIA

Abigail Solomon-Godeau on Abigail Solomon-Godeau on the image wars

ON SITE

Tom Vanderbilt on new-model flash mobs

William Kentridge, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse, 1998. Performance view, John Jay College Theater, New York, 2004. Fourie Nyamade (puppeteer) and Furio Zanasi (vocalist). Photo: Johan Jacobs-LaMonnaie.

PERFORMANCE

Jonathan Gilmore on Jonathan Gilmore on William Kentridge’s Ritorno d’Ulisse

NEWS

Peter Plagens on the Whitney’s new curators

Chason Matthams, Girl on bed, NYC, 2003, color photograph, 6 x 9 3/4".

SLANT

David Rimanelli on David Rimanelli on giving his class homework

top ten

Lucy McKenzie

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BLACK-BOX THEATER: MINIMALISM REVISITED

View of “Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2004. From left: Donald Judd, Untitled, 1993; Donald Judd, Untitled, 1969; Donald Judd, Untitled, 1968. Photo: David Heald.All works of art by Donald Judd © Judd Foundation. Licensed by vaga, New York, NY.

Specific Objections: Three Exhibitions

Yve-Alain Bois

Wear and Care: Preserving Judd

Ann Temkin

ARTISTS’ TAKES

Josiah McElheny

Robert Gober

Andrea Zittel

LANGUAGE IN THE VICINITY OF ART: ARTISTS’ WRITINGS, 1960–1975

Jeffrey Weiss

1000 WORDS: ANTHONY McCALL

Jeffrey Kastner

Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, 2003. Installation view, Tate Modern, London, 2003. Photo: Jens Ziehe.

NO MORE SCALE: THE EXPERIENCE OF SIZE IN CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE

James Meyer

PORTFOLIO: ED RUSCHA

Scott Rothkopf

OPENINGS: TAFT GREEN

Jan Tumlir

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John Waters, Mark #12, 1998, color photograph, 14 x 19 3/4".

John Kelsey on John Waters

Barry Schwabsky on Raoul De Keyser

Daniel Birnbaum on Anri Sala

Kiki Smith, Untitled (Pink Bosoms), 1990–92, 4 screenprints with gouache on paper, each 20 11 /16 x 32 11/16".

Carol Armstrong on Giuseppe Penone/Kiki Smith

Michelle Kuo on “Son et Lumière”

New York

Philadelphia

T.J. Demos on Kara Walker

Washington, DC

Howard Risatti on Siemon Allen/Dominic McGill

Chicago

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Pipilotti Rist

Los Angeles

Buenos Aires

Maria Gainza on León Ferrari

Seville

Juan Vicente Aliaga on Ann-Sofi Sidén

Prato

Marco Meneguzzo on Wim Delvoye

Turin

Alessandra Pioselli on Marzia Migliora

Milan

Francesca Pasini on Marco Papa

Paris

Paul Galvez on “Non-Standard Architectures”

Vitry-Val-de-Marne

Miriam Rosen on Valérie Jouve

Dijon

Anne Pontégnie on “Before the End”

Thun, Switzerland

Felicity Lunn on Claudia and Julia Müller

Hamburg

Wolf Jahn on Atlas Group/Walid Raad

Düsseldorf

Astrid Wege on “Ready to Shoot”

Munich

Giorgio Verzotti on Euan Macdonald

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Truls Melin

London

Copehnhagen

Lars Bang Larsen on Peter Louis-Jensen

Birmingham

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith on David Batchelor