TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2008

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Cover: Phil Collins, britney #3 (detail), 2001, color photograph, 72 x 48".

January 2008, Vol. 46, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Sigmar Polke, Deucalion’s Flood (Axial Age), 2007, violet pigments and mixed media on fabric. Installation view, Italian Pavilion, Fifty-second Venice Biennale.

Letters

Venice Revisited

John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco, Retrospective #10, 2007, silk screen on aluminum, 48 x 36".

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on NOTES ON JOKES

PASSAGES

Robert Pincus-Witten on Ileana Sonnabend

PASSAGES

Jeff Koons on Ileana Sonnabend

PASSAGES

Haim Steinbach on Ileana Sonnabend

Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 2007, still from a color film in 35 mm, 113 minutes. From left: night receptionist (Tania Popa), Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), and Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov).

FILM

Amy Taubin on Cristian Mungiu

PERFORMANCE

Julia Bryan-Wilson on Kirsten Forkert and Mark Tribe

Composers Inside Electronics performing David Tudor’s Rainforest IV (1973), The Kitchen, New York, 2007. Photo: Stephen Vitiello.

SOUND

Damon Krukowski on David Tudor’s Rainforest IV

SLANT

Sabeth Buchmann and Achim Hochdörfer on the Generali Foundation

top ten

Heather Rowe

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Focus Preview

WINTER 2008 EXHIBITIONS: 50 shows worldwide

Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Glorification of the Virgin Mary, ca. 1495, oil on wood panel, 10 1/2 x 8".

Vault

“Dutch Primitives”

International News

Brian Sholis on the 5th Berlin Biennale

On the Road

Traveling exhibitions

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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: THE ART OF PHIL COLLINS

Helen Molesworth

1000 WORDS: HARRY DODGE AND STANYA KAHN

Rachel Kushner

JOKES AND INNOVATIVE ACTION

Paolo Virno

John Baldessari, Teaching a Plant the Alphabet, 1972, stills from a black-and-white video, 18 minutes 40 seconds.

GERALD RAUNING

Introduction

Fiat storage lot, Turin, Italy, 1974. Photo: AP/Raoul Fornezza

A NEW GEOMETRY: PAOLO VIRNO AND AUTONOMIA

Jason Smith

FILLING THE VOID: THE ART OF MUNGO THOMSON

Martin Herbert

Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, We Will Live to See These Things, or, Five Pictures of What May Come to Pass, 2007, stills from a color video, 47 minutes.

OPENINGS: JULIA MELTZER AND DAVID THORNE

Alan Gilbert

OPENINGS: ANNETTE KELM

Jens Hoffmann

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Daniel Birnbaum on André Cadere

El Lissitzky, Prounenraum (Proun Room), 1923/1971, wood and paint. Installation view, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2007. Photo: Peter Cox.

Hal Foster on “Forms of Resistance”

View of Biennale de Lyon 2007, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon. Left: Claire Fontaine, Untitled (identité, souveraineté et tradition), 2007. Photo: Blaise Adilon.

Kate Bush on the Biennale de Lyon 2007

Diana Baldon on the 1st Athens Biennial

Barry Schwabsky on “Turner Prize”

New York

Philadelphia

Paul Galvez on Peter Campus

Chicago

James Yood on Ben Stone

Minneapolis

Patricia Briggs on “Brave New Worlds”

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Takeshi Murata

Los Angeles

London

Liverpool

Rachel Withers on Crowe and Rawlinson

Walsall, UK

Miguel Amado on Joana Vasconcelos

Paris

Berlin

André Rottmann on Mike Kelley

Zurich

Eva Scharrer on Rachel Khedoori

Milan

Rome

Giorgio Verzotti on Matti Braun

Vienna

Sabine B. Vogel on “Into Position”

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Erik Krikortz

Brno, Czech Republic

Noemi Smolik on Jiří David

Kiev, Ukraine

Marek Bartelik on “Reflection”

Beirut, Lebanon

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on “Less Roses”