TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2008

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Cover: Gustave Courbet, The Wave (detail), 1869, oil on canvas, 43 11⁄16 x 56 3⁄16".

May 2008, Vol. 46, No. 9

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COLUMNS

Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise, 1967, still from a color film in 35 mm, 96 minutes. Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud). © 2008 Koch Lorber Films. Image scan courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Special thanks to Hedi El Kholti.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on LESSONS OF ’68

FILM

Amy Taubin on James Nares

top ten

Qiu Zhijie

Demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War, with police officers lining the steps of Low Library, Columbia University, New York, April 27, 1968. Photo: Associated Press.

MAY ’68

Arthur C. Danto on the student revolt at Columbia University

MAY ’68

Ti-Grace Atkinson on art and logic

Spread from Suck 8 (June 1974). Editorial staff during an office break on the beach.

MAY ’68

Chris Kraus on Suck

MAY ’68

Michelle Kuo on speaks with Michael Callahan about USCO

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The Great Isaiah Scroll (detail), ca. 120 BCE, ink on leather parchment.

Vault

the Dead Sea Scrolls

Vault

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

US News

the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Paul Thek, Untitled (Earth Drawing I), ca. 1974, acrylic on newspaper, 44 x 66".

US News

the 55th Carnegie International

Summer Exhibitions

50 shows worldwide

On the Road

Traveling Exhibitions

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MAY '68

THE GREAT REFUSAL

Sylvère Lotringer

A REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS NEVER ENDS

Sylvère Lotringer and Antonio Negri

THE GROUP THAT WAS (NOT) ONE: DANIEL BUREN AND BMPT

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Police searching neighborhood residents during an outbreak of unrest in Watts, Los Angeles, March 15, 1966. Photo: Bettmann/Corbis.

INVISIBLE CITIES: HENRI LEFEBVRE’S THE EXPLOSION

Tom McDonough

A 1954 Opel car being manufactured by DkW Auto Works, Düsseldorf, December 1, 1953. Photo: Ralph Crane/Getty Images.

THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE

Liam Gillick

NO WAVE: THE ZANZIBAR GROUP

Sally Shafto

The body of student Benno Ohnesorg after he was killed by German police during a demonstration against a visit by the shah of Iran, Berlin, June 2, 1967. Photo: Herr/Associated Press.

LEARNING CURVE: RADICAL ART AND EDUCATION IN GERMANY

Tom Holert

ON THE BREACH

Gerald Raunig

INNER STATES: GUSTAVE COURBET

Paul Galvez

WHAT IS GUSTAVE COURBET?

A Portfolio by Michael Krebber

1000 WORDS: ED RUSCHA

Barry Schwabsky

Peter Hutton, At Sea, 2004–2007, still from a color film in 16 mm, 60 minutes.

IMMANENT DOMAIN: THE FILMS OF PETER HUTTON

P. Adams Sitney

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Philip Taaffe, Cape Sinope, 2006–2007, mixed media on canvas, 114 x 97 1⁄8".

Bob Nickas on Philip Taaffe

Martin Herbert on Paul McCarthy

Martin Puryear, Dumb Luck, 1990, wire mesh, tar, and wood, 64 x 94 x 36".

Suzanne Hudson on Martin Puryear

Jordan Kantor on Enrique Chagoya

New York

Boston

Larissa Harris on “Two or Three Things I Know About Her”

Philadelphia

Paul Galvez on Vito Acconci

Chicago

James Yood on Marcelino Stuhmer

Atlanta

Philip Auslander on Rocío Rodríguez

San Francisco

Los Angeles

Toronto

Dan Adler on Kadar Brock

London

Diana Baldon on Hans Schabus

Coventry, UK

Barry Schwabsky on Cullinan + Richards

Paris

Antwerp, Belgium

Wouter Davidts on Jan Kempenaers

Berlin

Daniel Boese on Viktoria Binschtok

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Janis Avotins

Hamburg

Wolf Jahn on Videopanel 2008

Basel

Eva Scharrer on Ján Mančuška

Milan

Alessandra Pioselli on Daniele Puppi

Rovereto, Italy

Marco Meneguzzo on Vincenzo Agnetti

Verona, Italy

Giorgio Verzotti on Pietro Consagra

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Julia Margaret Cameron and Miroslav Tichý

Lisbon

Miguel Amado on Ricardo Valentim

Murcia, Spain

Jean-Max Colard on “Estratos”

Tokyo

Midori Matsui on Kishio Suga

Osaka, Japan

Midori Matsui on Ryoko Aoki

Seoul

Barry Schwabsky on “Void in Korean Art”

Mumbai

Zehra Jumabhoy on T & T