TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2005

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Cover: Ed Ruscha, The Old Tool & Die Building (detail), 2004, acrylic on canvas, 52 x 116". Inset: Pipilotti Rist, Related Legs (detail), 2001, two-channel video projection on transparent curtains.

September 2005, Vol. 44, No. 1

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COLUMNS

LETTERS

LETTERS

Left to right: Walter Hopps at Andy Warhol’s Factory, New York, 1964. Photo: Billy Name. Ed Kienholz, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959, paint and resin on wood, printed color reproductions, ink on paper, vertebrae, telephone parts, candy, dental molds, metal, pencil, and leather, 87 x 42 x 21".

PASSAGES

Ann Temkin on Ann Temkin on Walter Hopps

Left: Paul McCarthy, Captain Morgan, 2005, silicone and metal, 71 1/4 x 55 1/2 x 42 1/2". Installation view, “LaLa Land Parody Paradise,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2005. Right: Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy, Pirate Party, 2005, stills from a four-channel color video installation, 1 hour 32 minutes. All works from “Caribbean Pirates,” 2001–2005.

ON SITE

Rachel Harrison on Rachel Harrison on Paul McCarthy

BOOKS

Richard Meyer on Art Since 1900

FILM

Geoffrey O’Brien on Alexander Mackendrick

FILM

Jonathan Romney on Lodge Kerrigan

SLANT

Robert Storr on Ron Gorchov

Unknown follower of Rembrandt, Old Man in an Armchair, 1652, oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 34 1/2".

SLANT

Svetlana Alpers on Svetlana Alpers on the life of painting

top ten

Donald Urquhart

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International News

the Cinémathèque Française

Jesper Just, Bliss and Heaven, 2004, still from a color video, 7 minutes 30 seconds.

US News

PERFORMA05

Regional Exhibitions

Fall 2005 Exhibitions

Vault

Fra Angelico

On the Road

Traveling exhibitions

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BREADTH IN VENICE: THE 51st VENICE BIENNALE

The Curse of Empire

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

View of “Karen Kilimnik,” Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, 2005.*

Palazzo Intrigue

Scott Rothkopf

Guerrilla Girls, Benvenuti alla Biennale Femminista! (Welcome to the Feminist Biennial!), 2005, digital print, 17' x 13' 1 1?4". From “Always a Little Further,” Arsenale.

Candide Cameras

Elisabeth Sussman

Dawn ’til Dusk

Daniel Birnbaum

Stealing the Show

Alison M. Gingeras

Debt Collectors

Anne Pontégnie

ON “THE MATTER OF TIME”: RICHARD SERRA AT BILBAO

Hal Foster

1000 WORDS: CHRISTOPH BÜCHEL & GIOVANNI CARMINE

Marc Spiegler

FROM THE CRITIQUE OF INSTITUTIONS TO AN INSTITUTION OF CRITIQUE

Andrea Fraser

Robert Beavers, From the Notebook of . . . , 1971/ 1998, still from a color film in 35 mm, 48 minutes.

FRAMES OF MIND: THE FILMS OF ROBERT BEAVERS

Henriette Huldisch and Chrissie Iles

OPENINGS: DAVE McKENZIE

Glenn Ligon

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Lee Friedlander, Tokyo, Japan, 1979, black-and-white photograph.

Carol Armstrong on Lee Friedlander

Brigid Doherty on Max Ernst

Max Ernst, Sambesiland, 1921, photographic enlargement of photomontage with ink mounted on paperboard, 6 13/16 x 9 1/8".

Carroll Dunham on Max Ernst

Ryan Holmberg on “Little Boy”

New York

Ridgefield, CT

Larissa Harris on “Contemporary Erotic Drawing”

Cleveland

David Carrier on Michaël Borremans

Chicago

James Yood on Magnus von Plessen

Minneapolis

Julie Caniglia on Alec Soth

Wichita, KS

Michael Odom on David Reed

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Robert Bechtle

Los Angeles

Santa Monica

Michael Ned Holte on George Herms

Buenos Aires

Maria Gainza on Jorge Gumier Maier

Milan

Paris

Barry Schwabsky on Apostolos Georgiou

Geneva

Hans Rudolf Reust on Shirana Shahbazi

Winterthur, Switzerland

Felicity Lunn on Reto Boller

Vienna

Sabine B. Vogel on Roman Ondák

Hannover

Gregory Williams on Georg Herold

Berlin

Jennifer Allen on Peter Eisenman

Ulm, Germany

Noemi Smolik on Leiko Ikmura

Reykjavík

Liutauras Psibilskis on Reykjavík Arts Festival

London