TABLE OF CONTENTS

November 2008

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Cover: R. Buckminster Fuller, Geauga County, Ohio, 1959. Photo: Elliott Erwitt/Magnum.

November 2008, Vol. 47, No. 3

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COLUMNS

A Dymaxion Car, designed by R. Buckminster Fuller, in front of the US Capitol, Washington, DC, July 20, 1934. Photo: Corbis

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on TOMORROW NO MORE

Manny Farber, Del Mar, California, ca. 1998. Photo: Patricia Patterson.

PASSAGES

Luc Sante on Manny Farber

MEDIA

David Joselit on the politics of images

MEDIA

Greil Marcus on Mad Men

FILM

Amy Taubin on Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir

Hartmut Bitomsky, Dust, 2007, still from a color film in 35 mm, 90 minutes.

FILM

Bruce Sterling on Hartmut Bitomsky’s Dust

SOUND

Damon Krukowski on Victrola Favorites and Sublime Frequencies

1784 107th Street with the Watts Towers in the background, Los Angeles, 2000. Photo: Edgar Arceneaux.

ON SITE

Sharon Mizota on Edgar Arceneaux and the Watts House Project

top ten

Nicole Cherubini

TECHNOLOGY

Gene McHugh on Guy Debord’s Game of War and the Radical Software Group

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R. Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House, Project Plan, ca. 1927, graphite, watercolor, metallic ink on tracing paper, 10 3⁄4 x 10".

GLOBAL OUTLOOK: THE LEGACY OF R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

R. Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House Model, Third Version, 1929, mixed media. Photo: Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.

SEAN KELLER

Sean Keller

Morphosis, Phare Tower (detail), 2007, Paris. Rendering.

THOM MAYNE

Thom Mayne

FRITZ HAEG

Fritz Haeg

Jean-Gilles Décosterd and Philippe Rahm, Hormonorium, 2002, mixed media. Installation view, Swiss pavilion, Venice. From the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale. Photo: Niklaus Stauss.

MICHAEL WANG

Michael Wang

KEVIN PRATT

Kevin Pratt

HELENE FURJAN

Helene Furján

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline. All photos: The Center for Land Use Interpretation, 2008.

1000 WORDS: THE CENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION

Tom Vanderbilt

A TALE OF TWO CITIES: THE FILMS OF DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBETY

Steven Nelson

PERSISTENCE OF VISION: THE FILMS OF CHANTAL AKERMAN

Malcolm Turvey

CHANTAL AKERMAN: CHILDREN’S BOOK

Tim Griffin

RIDE LONESOME: THE FILMS OF LISANDRO ALONSO

James Quandt

OPENINGS: KATERINA SEDÁ

Martin Herbert

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View of “Louise Bourgeois,” 2008, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Foreground: Spider Couple, 2003; Untitled, 2004; Untitled, 2004.

Robert Pincus-Witten and Sarah K. Rich on Louise Bourgeois

Steven Henry Madoff on “Eclipse”

View of “Lisa Lapinski: The Fret and Its Variants,” 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Foreground: Monty Python Precedes Dungeons and Dragons, 2008.

Michael Ned Holte on Lisa Lapinski

Beth Citron on Nandalal Bose

Johanna Burton on Moyra Davey

New York

Boston

Francine Koslow Miller on Dave Cole

Hanover, NH

Allison Moore on “Black Womanhood”

Atlanta

Philip Auslander on “After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy”

Chicago

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on John Chiara

Los Angeles

Vancouver, BC

Trevor Mahovsky on Rebecca Belmore

Toronto

Dan Adler on Kelly Richardson

London

Paris

Rike Frank on “Like an Attali Report, But Different”

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France

Jian-Xing Too on Cécile Babiole and Laurent Dailleau

Brussels

Joanna Fiduccia on Mike Kelley

Berlin

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Tobias Rehberger

Zurich

Valérie Knoll on “9 Evenings Reconsidered”

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Eva Scharrer on David Claerbout

Genoa, Italy

Giorgio Verzotti on Cesare Viel

Jerusalem

Nuit Banai on “Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008”

Beirut, Lebanon

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Walid Raad

Coimbra, Portugal

Miguel Amado on João Paulo Feliciano

Barcelona

Juan Vicente Aliaga on Alicia Framis

Melbourne, Australia

Anthony Gardner on Francis Upritchard

Mumbai

Zehra Jumabhoy on Peter Buggenhout