TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2008

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Cover: Portrait of Michael Clark, London, ca. 1983. Photo: Richard Haughton.

September 2008, Vol. 47, No. 1

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COLUMNS

Opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing, August 8, 2008. Photo: Doug Mills/New York Times/Redux.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on Mirror Image

LETTERS

Michel Houellebecq on Alain Robbe-Grillet

Anne d’Harnoncourt with Marcel Duchamp’s Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915–23, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973. Photo: Patrick Radebaugh.

PASSAGES

Ann Temkin on Anne d’Harnoncourt

Marie Menken, Lights, 1966, still from a color film in 16 mm, 6 minutes 30 seconds.

BOOKS

Richard Deming on P. Adams Sitney’s Eyes Upside Down

Jonas Mekas, “As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty.” Stills made by Arunas Kulikauskas; reprinted courtesy of Jonas Mekas.

BOOKS

ONLINE ONLY: Conclusion to P. Adams Sitney's Eyes Upside Down

MEDIA

Jeff Kelley on Ai Weiwei

ON SITE

Helen Molesworth on Richard Serra and André Cadere

Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler, T.S.O.Y.W., 2007, two-channel film in 16 mm transferred to video, 200 minutes. Production still. Photo: Amy Granat.

ON SITE

Jeffrey Weiss on Land Art

ON SITE

Martin Herbert on “Experiment Marathon Reykjavík”

TECHNOLOGY

Daniel Birnbaum on Renzo Piano’s Pontus Hultén Study Gallery

top ten

Josef Strau

Bert Rodriguez, In the Beginning . . . , 2008, mixed media and performance. Installation view, Park Avenue Armory, New York. From the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Photo: James Ewing.

SLANT

Steven Henry Madoff on Service Aesthetics

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Fall Exhibitions

50 shows worldwide

On the Road

Traveling Exhibitions

International News

Tim Griffin talks with curator Okwui Enwezor about the 7th Gwangju Biennale

US News

Prudence Peiffer on Sol LeWitt at Mass MoCA

US News

Rachel Churner on “Prospect.1 New Orleans”

Vault

Bruce Boucher on Andrea Palladio

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BECAUSE WE MUST: THE ART OF MICHAEL CLARK

CATHERINE WOOD

Catherine Wood

Cerith Wyn Evans, Michael Clark, Steven Guff, and crew during the production of the film component of Michael Clark’s Parts I–IV, 1983. Photo: Chris Harris.

CERITH WYN EVANS

Cerith Wyn Evans

KATE COYNE

Kate Coyne

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP

Silke Otto-Knapp

JONATHAN HOROWITZ

Jonathan Horowitz

JUTTA KOETHER

Jutta Koether

Charles Atlas, Hail the New Puritan, 1985–86, stills from a color film in 16 mm transferred to video, 84 minutes 47 seconds. Stills courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

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Charles Atlas Reflects on Michael Clark

1000 WORDS: KENNETH ANGER

Thomas Dylan Eaton

A CINEMA OF CITATION: THE FILMS OF ALEXANDER KLUGE

Eric Rentschler

MATERIAL WITNESS: A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1925–2008)

THOMAS CROW

Thomas Crow

TRISHA BROWN

Trisha Brown

John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg, London, 1964. Photo: Douglas Jeffreys.

MERCE CUNNINGHAM

Merce Cunningham

ROBERT WHITMAN

Robert Whitman

Robert Rauschenberg in his Lafayette Street studio, New York, 1968. Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson.

BARBARA ROSE

Barbara Rose

BRICE MARDEN

Brice Marden

Robert Rauschenberg, National Spinning/Red/Spring, 1971, cardboard and string, 100 x 98 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2".

BRANDEN W. JOSEPH

Branden W. Joseph

JAMES ROSENQUIST

James Rosenquist

Anna Molska, Tanagram, 2006–2007, black-and-white video, 5 minutes 10 seconds. Production still.

OPENINGS: ANNA MOLSKA

Tomasz Fudala

DORIT MARGREITER

Barbara Clausen

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View of “Jeff Koons,” 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. From left: New Hoover Deluxe Shampoo Polishers, New Shelton Wet/Dry 10-Gallon Displaced Tripledecker, 1981–87; Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994–2000; Pink Panther, 1988; Caterpillar Ladder, 2003; Elephant, 2003; Buster Keaton, 1988; and Triple Hulk Elvis I, 2007. Photo: Nathan Keay.

Graham Bader on Jeff Koons

Colin Lang on Imi Knoebel

Amy Sillman, H, 2007, oil on canvas, 45 x 39".

Sarah K. Rich on Amy Sillman

Rachel Churner on 55th Carnegie International

Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Jian-Xing Too on Claude Closky

Santa Fe

Paris

Jean-Max Colard on Xavier Veilhan

Glasgow

Sarah Lowndes on Glasgow International

Birmingham, UK

Barry Schwabsky on Ruth Claxton

London

Buenos Aires

María Gainza on Liliana Maresca

Mexico City

Jessica Berlanga Taylor on Felipe Ehrenberg

Montreal

Dan Adler on Geoffrey Farmer

Los Angeles

Nîmes, France

John-Paul Stonard on Wolf Vostell

Liège, Belgium

Yoann Van Parys on Pierre Gérard

Antwerp

André Rottmann on Andrea Fraser

Munich

Noemi Smolik on Mária Bartuszová

Zurich

Valérie Knoll on Gabríela Fridriksdóttir

Milan

Paola Noé on Pae White

Turin, Italy

Giorgio Verzotti on Roberto Cuoghi

Moscow

Emily Newman on Boris Turetsky

Prague

Noemi Smolik on Miyako Ishiuchi

Cairo

Cathryn Drake on Basim Magdy

Auckland

Jon Bywater on Layla Rudneva-Mackay

Beijing

Michael Hatch on Zhao Liang

Seoul

Shinyoung Chung on Sang Nam Lee

New York

Marfa

Martha Schwendener on “Hello Meth Lab in the Sun”

Waltham, MA

Francine Koslow Miller on Alexis Rockman

Philadelphia

Monica Amor on Carlos Amorales

Washington, DC

Howard Risatti on Willem De Looper

Atlanta

Philip Auslander on Jack Whitten

Chicago

James Yood on Li Lin Lee

Milwaukee

Michelle Grabner on Santiago Cucullu