TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2005

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Robert Gober, Untitled (detail), 2003–2005, bronze, beeswax, human hair, pigment, sock, and shoe, 24 1/2 x 40 x 34“. Photo: Russell Kaye. Inset: Daniel Buren, Painture aux forms variables (Painting with Variable Forms) (detail), 1966, paint on white-and-orange striped fabric, 87 x 77 3/16.”

May 2005, Vol. 43, No. 9

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COLUMNS

FILM

Amy Taubin on Jonas Mekas

FILM

Steven Shaviro on Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye and Ma mère

PASSAGES

Mark Wigley on Philip Johnson

ON SITE

Jeffrey Kastner on The Gates

SLANT

Tom Vanderbilt on art and competitive consumption

Clockwise for top left: Paul Nash, Dead Tree, Romney Marsh, 1930–34, black-and-white photograph, 3 7/16 x 2 1/4“. Right, from top: Eileen Agar, Rocks Ploumanach, Britanny, France, 1936, cropped postcard, 3 1/16 x 3 1/16”. © Tate Archive. Marisa Merz, Deux têtes (Two Heads), 1983, clay and paraffin, each 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 9/16". © Archivo Merz, Turin.

SLANT

Mark Godfrey on Mark Godfrey on the artist as curator

top ten

Tim Davis

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Vault

Jacob van Ruisdael

International News

the 51st Venice Biennale

On the Road

Traveling Exhibitions

Bulbo, The Clothes Shop, 2004–. Installation view, Tijuana, 2004. Photo: David Figueroa.

North American News

“InSite_05”

Regional Exhibitions

50 shows worldwide

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IN CONVERSATION: DANIEL BUREN AND OLAFUR ELIASSON

In Conversation: Daniel Buren and Olafur Eliasson

NO PICTURES, PLEASE: THE ART OF TINO SEHGAL

Claire Bishop

TINO SEHGAL: AN INTERVIEW

Tim Griffin

1000 WORDS: RUDOLF STINGEL

Cay Sophie Rabinowitz

AMERICAN GOTHIC: ROBERT GOBER’S NEW WORK

Hal Foster

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady, 2004, still from a color film in 35 mm, 118 minutes.

EXQUISITE CORPUS: THE FILMS OF APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

James Quandt

View of “Be Angry But Don’t Stop Breathing,” Tate Britain, London, 2003.

WORDS TO LIVE BY: THE ART OF MARK TITCHNER

Michael Wilson

OPENINGS: SETH PRICE

Elizabeth Schambelan

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Justin Lowe, On the Beach, 2005, mixed media, dimensions variable.

David Rimanelli on “Greater New York 2005”

Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Projection 4 (P), 1997, 1 of 162 projected slides.

T. J. Demos on “SlideShow”

Felicity Lunn on Mark Handforth

Bruce Hainley on Larry Clark

Marseilles

Claire Moulène on Tatiana Trouvé

San Francisco

Maria Porges on Jim Campbell

Berkeley, CA

Glen Helfand on Althea Thauberger

Los Angeles

Vancouver

Trevor Mahovsky on Ian Wallace

Lisbon

Alexandre Melo on James Coleman

Valencia

Juan Vicente Aliaga on Pep Dardanyà

San Gimignano, Italy

Cathryn Drake on Arte all'Arte 9

Milan

Francesca Pasini on Massimo Bartolini

Bern

Hans Rudolf Reust on Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam

Christian Rattemeyer on “Who If Not We Should At Least Try to Imagine the Future of All This?”

Berlin

Warsaw

Marek Bartelik on “Warsaw-Moscow/Moscow-Warsaw, 1900–2000”

London

Sydney

Charles Green on Lee Bul

New York

Chicago

James Yood on Susan Giles

Boston

Francine Koslow Miller on Sally Moore