TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2010

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Cover: John Miller, The Office Party and the Communist Party, 1991, acrylic, modeling paste, plastic, aluminum, Styrofoam, plaster, papier-mâché, mixed-media on masonite panel, 47 1⁄4 x 39 1⁄4 x 11 3⁄4".

January 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Marcel Duchamp, Étant donnés: 1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage . . . (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas . . .), 1946–66, wooden door, bricks, velvet, wood, leather, metal armature, twigs, aluminum, iron, glass, Plexiglas, linoleum, cotton, electric lights, gas lamp, motor, 95 1⁄2 x 70 x 49". Exterior view. © 2010 Estate of Marcel Duchamp/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Tim Griffin on IN SECRECY

PASSAGES

Francine du Plessix Gray on Irving Penn

A page from Carsten Nicolai’s Grid Index (Gestalten, 2009).

BOOKS

Tauba Auerbach on Carsten Nicolai’s Grid Index

BOOKS

Michael Fried on Mitch Epstein’s American Power

FILM

James Quandt on Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon

Corneliu Porumboiu, Police, Adjective, 2009, still from a color film in 35 mm, 115 minutes. Cristi (Dragoş Bucur).

FILM

Amy Taubin on Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective

Mario Montez (René Rivera) in conversation with Marc Siegel at the “LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World!” conference, Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, October 30, 2009. Photo: David Velasco.

PERFORMANCE

David Velasco on “LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH!”

SLANT

Julia Bryan-Wilson on the Creative Time Summit

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Tirdad Zolghadr

DISPATCH

Alex Israel on Los Angeles

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WINTER 2010 EXHIBITIONS: 40 Shows worldwide

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Anne Truitt, First Requiem, 1977, acrylic on wood, 90 x 8 x 8". Four views.

DISARMING TIME: THE ART OF ANNE TRUITT

Anne M. Wagner

View of “John Miller,” 2009, Kunsthalle Zürich. Foreground: A Refusal to Accept Limits, 2009. Background, from left: A Powerful Prayer, 1994; Untitled, 1986.

1000 WORDS: JOHN MILLER

Matt Keegan

MY FUNNY VALENTINE: ÉTANT DONNÉS

Helen Molesworth

LYNDA BENGLIS: KLAUS 1975

Richard Meyer, introduction

Bruce McClure preparing to perform Nethergate, 2005, at the 8th International New Media Art festival, Riga, Latvia, August 26, 2006. Photo: Robin Martin.

POWERS OF PROJECTION: THE ART OF BRUCE McCLURE

Ed Halter

Akram Zaatari, Nature Morte, 2007, stills from a color video, 11 minutes.

OPENINGS: AKRAM ZAATARI

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

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Ângela Ferreira, Maison Tropicale (Brazzaville) no. 2, 2007/2009, one of four color photographs, each 11 7⁄8 x 16 1⁄2".

Brian Dillon on “Modernologies”

Jordan Kantor on Luc Tuymans

New York

Boston

Nuit Banai on Rebecca Chamberlain

Chicago

Chad Elias on Allan Sekula

Dallas

Michael Odom on William Lamson

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Kota Ezawa

Los Angeles

Toronto

Dan Adler on Micah Lexier

Vancouver, BC

Clint Burnham on Scott McFarland

London

Gilda Williams on Clunie Reid

Milton Keynes, UK

Zehra Jumabhoy on Nasreen Mohamedi

Dublin

Maeve Connolly on Fergus Feehily

Paris

Noisy-le-Sec, France

Lillian Davies on Samuel Richardot

Luxembourg

Olivier Mignon on Olivier Foulon

Berlin

Cologne

Astrid Wege on Mark Dion

Zurich

Stefan Zucker on Ursula Biemann

Vienna

Sabine B. Vogel on Mithu Sen

Milan

Alessandra Pioselli on Alejandro Vidal

Bologna, Italy

Giorgio Verzotti on Gilberto Zorio

Porto, Portugal

Miguel Amado on Rita Sobral Campos

Barcelona

Martí Peran on Ion Grigorescu

Amman, Jordan

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Wael Shawky

Moscow

Brian Droitcour on Tigran Khachatryan

Shanghai

Mathieu Borysevicz on Zhou Xiaohu

Fukuoka, Japan

Charles LaBelle on 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale

São Paulo

Marek Bartelik on Pazé