TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2005

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January 2005, Vol. 43, No. 5

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COLUMNS

BOOKS

David Anfam on De Kooning: An American Master

BOOKS

Hilton Als on Juergen Teller

LETTERS

LETTERS

Tracey Emin, Top Spot, 2004, still from a color digital video, 61 minutes. From left to right: Elizabeth Crawford, Laura Curnick, Katie Foster Barnes, Helen Laker, Frances Williams, Keiri Noddings.

FILM

Jonathan Romney on Jonathan Romney on Tracey Emin’s Top Spot

FILM

Amy Taubin on Michael Almereyda

FILM

Dennis Cooper on Henry Darger

Clockwise from top left: World Trade Center burning after terrorist attack, New York, September 11, 2001. Photo: AP Photo/Patrick Sison. Paul Pfeiffer, John 3:16, 2000, still from a color video, approx. 2 minutes 7 seconds. Sidney Lumet, Network, 1976, still from a color film in 35mm, 121 minutes. Howard Beale (Peter Finch) and Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway). Thomas Eggerer, The Wisdom of Concrete, 2004, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 79".

MEDIA

David Joselit on David Joselit on art and terror

MEDIA

Jean-Pierre Criqui on psychedelic posters

ON SITE

Eric Banks on Art Metropole

top ten

Lizzi Bougatsos

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Regional Exhibitions

50 shows worldwide

US News

“Greater New York 2005”

Vault

Jacques-Louis David

Vault

Rembrandt

On the Road

Traveling exhibitions

Flower memorial for Theo Van Gogh at the scene of his murder, Amsterdam, November 2004.

International News

funding cuts in Holland

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FIRST TAKES

Kristin Baker, The Unfair Advantage, 2003, acrylic on PVC, 60 x 108".

Kristin Baker

Debra Singer

Roman Ondak

Jessica Morgan

Walead Beshty

Joe Scanlan

Michael Rakowitz

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Adam McEwen

David Rimanelli

Julian Göthe

Tom Holert

Jan de Cock, Denkmal 2, Astillero, Ascorreta 2, Pasajes San Pedro, Donostia-San Sebastián, 2004. Installation view, Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Jan de Cock

Jordan Kantor

Ryoki Aoki and Zon Ito

Philippe Vergne

Matthew Day Jackson

Bob Nickas

Richard Hughes

Alison M. Gingeras

SOUND THINKING: BRUCE NAUMAN AT THE TURBINE HALL

Michael Auping

Carol Bove, Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, 2003, mixed media, 40 x 35 x 10".

SHELF LIFE: THE ART OF CAROL BOVE

Barry Schwabsky

ALL TOGETHER NOW: CROWD SCENES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Katy Siegel

1000 WORDS: YINKA SHONIBARE

Lars Bang Larsen

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Paul Chan, Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of CivilizationAfter Henry Darger and Charles Fourier, 2000–2003, still from a color digital video, 17 minutes 20 seconds.

Katy Siegel on the 2004 Carnegie International

Branden W. Joseph on Pat O’Neill

Bruce Hainley on Sturtevant

Clockwise from top: Yvonne Rainer, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid, 2002, still from a color video, 30 minutes. Mikhail Baryshnikov. Yvonne Rainer, Kristina Talking Pictures, 1976, still from a black-and-white and color film in 16mm, 90 minutes. Blondell Cummings. Yvonne Rainer, Privilege, 1990, still from a black-and-white and color film in 16mm, 100 minutes. Gabriella Farrar.

Gwen Allen on Yvonne Rainer

New York

Ridgefield, CT

David Carrier on Shahzia Sikander

Philadelphia

T.J. Demos on Pepón Osorio

Atlanta

Philip Auslander on John Largaespada

Chicago

James Yood on Gaylen Gerber

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Erwin Wurm

Los Angeles

Vancouver, BC

Trevor Mahovsky on “2048 KM”

Sao Paulo

Katia Canton on Albano Afonso

Milan

Marco Meneguzzo on Sergio Lombardo

Arles

Miriam Rosen on Rencontre d'Arles

Paris

Guitemie Maldonado on Bruno Perramant

Zurich

Felicity Lunn on Martin Boyce

Geneva

Hans Rudolf Reust on Mat Collishaw

Berlin

Gregory Williams on “Funky Lessons”

Hamburg

Nina Möntmann on Henning Bohl

Amsterdam

Sven Lütticken on Sean Snyder

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Miriam Bäckström

London

Athens

Marek Bartelik on “Transcultures”

Gwanju, South Korea

Valérie Brewart on Gwanju Biennale 2004