TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2009

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Cover: Jimmie Durham, Encore Tranquillité, 2008, rock, metal, plane, approx. 9' x 26' x 26'.

January 2009, Vol. 47, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Leandro Erlich, Window and LadderToo Late for Help, 2008, metal, ladder, fiberglass, brick, 14' 9“ x 5' 3”.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

Jeff Wall, Diagonal Composition No. 2, 1998, transparency in light box, 20 11/16 x 25 1/4".

BOOKS

Robin Kelsey on Michael Fried’s Why Photography Matters . . .

PASSAGES

Christopher S. Wood on Michael Baxandall

FILM

Brian O’Doherty on Steve McQueen’s Hunger

MEDIA

Lynne Tillman on Barack Obama

SLANT

Martin Friedman on George Segal

SLANT

Cecelia F. Klein on Jorge Pardo’s exhibition design at LACMA

top ten

Jim O’Rourke

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Ryan Trecartin, (Tommy Chat Just E-mailed Me.), 2006, still from a color video, 7 minutes 21 seconds. Tammy (Ryan Trecartin)

US News

the New Museum Triennial

International News

the Whitechapel Gallery’s expansion

Vault

“Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice”

Focus Preview

WINTER 2008 EXHIBITIONS: 50 shows worldwide

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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: PROSPECT.1 NEW ORLEANS

Glenn Ligon and Elizabeth Schambelan

Matt Mullican, Untitled, 1975–76, ink on paper, 8 1⁄2 x 11".

WHAT IS THAT PERSON THINKING?: AN INTERVIEW WITH MATT MULLICAN

Tim Griffin

1000 WORDS: JIMMIE DURHAM

Anne Ellegood

ALLEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: SILVIA KOLBOWSKI’S AFTER HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Rachel Kushner

Tris Vonna-Michell, Papierstau (Paper Jam), 2007–2008. Performance view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 2007. From Leipzig Calendar Works, 2005–. Photo: Fred Dott.

OPENINGS: TRIS VONNA-MICHELL

Martin Herbert

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Claire Tancons’s exhibition-as-procession, “Spring,” Gwangju, 2008. (Work pictured: Marlon Griffith, Runaway/Reaction, 2008, mixed-media performance.) From the 2008 Gwangju Biennale.

Philip Tinari on the 2008 Gwangju Biennale, Singapore Biennale 2008, and 3rd Yokohama Triennale

Rachel Withers on Nancy Spero

Suzanne Hudson on Tara Donovan

View of Scott Lyall, “The Color Ball,” 2008, Power Plant, Toronto.

Dan Adler on Scott Lyall

New York

Cambridge, MA

Nuit Banai on Adel Abdessemed

Boston

Francine Koslow Miller on Lalla Essaydi

Chicago

Denver

Kyle MacMillan on Daniel Richter

San Antonio

Michael Schreyach on Judith Godwin

Los Angeles

London

Liverpool, UK

Gilda Williams on Liverpool Biennial

Antwerp, Belgium

Yoann Van Parys on “Curiosity”

Berlin

Dominikus Müller on Sven Johne

Aachen, Germany

Catrin Lorch on Nairy Baghramian

Mönchengladbach, Germany

Catrin Lorch on Rita McBride

Zürich

Valérie Knoll on Karen Kilimnik

Aarau, Switzerland

Eva Scharrer on Mark Wallinger

Venice

Giorgio Verzotti on “Italics”

San Gimignano, Italy

Alessandra Pioselli on Sabrina Mezzaqui

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Klaus Weber

Prague

Noemi Smolik on Maki Na Kamura

Tel Aviv

Nuit Banai on Art TLV, “Open Plan Living”

Haarlem, The Netherlands

Saskia van der Kroef on Maaike Schoorel

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Christian Boltanski

Almada, Portugal

Miguel Amado on Pedro Calapez

Madrid

Pablo Llorca on José Manuel Ballester

Barcelona

Martí Peran on Javier Peñafiel

Seoul

Shinyoung Chung on Jina Park

Mexico City

Jessica Berlanga Taylor on Mario García Torres