TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2009

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Cover: Larry Johnson, Untitled (Heh, Heh) (detail), 1987, color photograph, 20 1⁄2 x 20 1⁄2".

May 2009, Vol. 47, No. 9

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COLUMNS

Larry Johnson, Copier (detail), 2007, color photograph, 55 1⁄2 x 65 1⁄2".

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on Artifacts

PASSAGES

Christoph Cox on Max Neuhaus

FILM

James Quandt on Jia Zhang-ke’s 24 City

FILM

Haden Guest on Treasures From American Film Archives IV

SLANT

Jaleh Mansoor on Piero Manzoni at Gagosian

Cover of Marianne Faithfull’s Easy Come Easy Go (Decca, 2009).

SOUND

Greil Marcus on Marianne Faithfull

SOUND

Damon Krukowski on Musica Elettronica Viva

top ten

Byron Kalet

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Tomás Saraceno, Galaxy forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider’s web, 2008, elastic, dimensions variable.

International News

Tim Griffin talks with curator Daniel Birnbaum about the 53rd Venice Biennale

Summer Exhibitions

50 shows worldwide

Vault

the Ballets Russes centennial

US News

Bruce Nauman at the 53rd Venice Biennale

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THE PRIME OF MISTER LARRY JOHNSON

Bruce Hainley

Lorraine O’Grady, Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, 1980–83. Performance view, New Museum, New York, September 1981. Photo: Coreen Simpson.

THE POEM WILL RESEMBLE YOU: THE ART OF LORRAINE O'GRADY

Nick Mauss

Jean-Michel Basquiat, untitled, 1981, ink, crayon, and acrylic on paper, from a set of fourteen drawings, 30 x 22" each.

ONLINE ONLY: APRIL 1993: A Day at the Races

Lorraine O’Grady on Basquiat and the Black Art World

THE BLACK AND WHITE SHOW

A Portfolio by Lorraine O’Grady

Jim Jarmusch, The Limits of Control, 2009, color film in 35 mm, 116 minutes. Production still. Lone Man (Isaach De Bankolé). Photo: Teresa Isasi-Isasmendi.

BREAKING THE CODES

Jim Jarmusch in conversation with Amy Taubin

ONLINE ONLY: Three photographs by Christopher Doyle

DIVIDED INTERESTS: THE ART OF ALIGHIERO BOETTI

Mark Godfrey

Sarah Michelson, Dover Beach (Cardiff), 2008. Performance view, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales, September 2008. Laura Weston, Non Griffiths. Photo: Kirsten McTernan.

1000 WORDS: SARAH MICHELSON

David Velasco

OPENINGS: GUIDO VAN DER WERVE

Martin Herbert

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Ree Morton, To Each Concrete Man, 1974, wood, canvas, PVC flooring, lightbulbs, electric fixtures, stretched rawhide, colored paper, pencil, paint. Installation view, Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2008.

Sabeth Buchmann on Ree Morton

Paul Graham, untitled, 2004, color photograph, 15 x 20". From the six-part suite New Orleans, 2004 (Woman Eating).

David Deitcher on Paul Graham

Edgar Schmitz on the Tate Triennial 2009

Sarah K. Rich on “Repartir à zéro”

New York

Philadelphia

Monica Amor on Eileen Neff

Cambridge, MA

Nuit Banai on William Pope.L

Chicago

Saint Louis

Ivy Cooper on Gaylen Gerber

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Curt McDowell

Los Angeles

London

Paris

Villeurbanne, France

Lillian Davies on Laurent Montaron

Antwerp, Belgium

Yoann Van Parys on Leon Vranken

Zurich

Berlin

Frankfurt

Eva Scharrer on Morgan Fisher

Rome

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Madrid

Pablo Llorca on Santiago Sierra

Barcelona

Martí Peran on Thomas Bayrle

Porto

Miguel Amado on Rodrigo Oliveira

Tel Aviv

Nuit Banai on Yifat Bezalel

Mumbai

Beth Citron on Kanishka Raja

Beijing

Lee Ambrozy on Wang Gongxin

São Paulo

Katia Canton on Renata Pedrosa