TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2007

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May 2007, Vol. 45, No. 9

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COLUMNS

Steve McQueen, Queen and Country (detail), 2007–, ink on paper, 23 1/2 x 18". Image of Lance Corporal Benjamin Hyde is reproduced with the kind permission of his family.

POLITICS

Martin Herbert on Steve McQueen

FILM

Robin Wood on Tsai Ming-liang

Robinson Devor, Zoo, 2007, still from a color film in Super-16 mm, 76 minutes.

FILM

Amy Taubin on Zoo

SLANT

Bruce Hainley on Richard Prince

SLANT

Helen Molesworth on Feminism

top ten

Chip Lord

ARCHITECTURE

Kevin Pratt on “Clip/Stamp/Fold”

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Regional Exhibitions

50 shows worldwide

US News

Natalie Kampen on the new Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum

Vault

Meredith Martin on Jean-Baptiste Oudry

International News

Jennifer Allen talks with the curators of Documenta 12

International News

Tim Griffin talks with curator Robert Storr about the 52nd Venice Biennale

Michael Asher, Installation Münster (Caravan), 1987. Photo: Rudolf Wakonnig.

International News

Elizabeth Schambelan talks with the curators of Skulptur Projekte Münster ’07

On the Road

Traveling Exhibitions

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THE RETURN OF OP

David Rimanelli and Sarah K. Rich

Bridget Riley, Blaze 3, 1963, acrylic on board, 37 1/2 x 37 1/2". From “Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 2007.

David Rimanelli

Sarah K. Rich

Matthew Buckingham, The Spirit and the Letter, 2007, color video, 18 minutes 30 seconds. Production still. Mary Wollstonecraft (Kate Miles). Photo: Romain Forquy.

1000 WORDS: MATTHEW BUCKINGHAM

Jessica Morgan

ADDRESS UNKNOWN: THE SCULPTURE OF HENRI MATISSE

Yve-Alain Bois

SOUND TRACKS: THE ART OF ALLORA AND CALZADILLA

Hannah Feldman

SCRIBBLES

Sol LeWitt

Saul Levine, New Left Note, 1968–82, strips from a color film in 8 mm, 27 minutes 45 seconds.

TAKING NOTE: THE FILMS OF SAUL LEVINE

P. Adams Sitney

OPENINGS: LISI RASKIN

Julia Bryan-Wilson

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Carol Armstrong on “Global Feminisms” and “WACK!”

Dara Birnbaum, PM Magazine, 1982/2006, five-channel color video with three stereo channels, two black-and-white photo enlargements, paint, aluminum, and custom hardware. Installation view, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2007.

Barry Schwabsky on “First Generation”

View of “Gordon Matta-Clark: 'You Are the Measure,'” 2007, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Foreground: Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting: Four Corners, 1974. Photo: Sheldan Collins. All works by Gordon Matta-Clark: © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Anthony Vidler on Gordon Matta-Clark

Mark Godfrey on Christopher Williams

New York

Washington, DC

Nord Wennerstrom on Graham Caldwell

Chicago

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Mitzi Pederson

Los Angeles

Toronto

Dan Adler on Monika Napier

London

Paris

Berlin

Jennifer Allen on Renée Green

Frankfurt

Noemi Smolik on Tommy Støckel

Basel

Valérie Knoll on Christian Philipp Müller

Milan

Alessandra Pioselli on Franco Vaccari

Naples

Filippo Romeo on Gregor Schneider

Mantua, Italy

Marco Meneguzzo on Fulvio Di Piazza

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Elke Krystufek

Madrid/Seville

Pablo Llorca on Pierre Gonnord

Stockholm

Jerusalem

Amy Simon on Nahum Tevet

Seoul

Shinyoung Chung on Zuyoung Chung