TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2010

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Cover: Tauba Auerbach, 0–9 (detail), 2005, gouache on paper, 30 x 22".

September 2010, Vol. 49, No. 1

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COLUMNS

Mario Milizia, Style Mixer (detail), 2003, ink on cardboard, 81⁄4 x 81⁄4".

EDITOR’S LETTER

Michelle Kuo on FORMS AND FUNCTIONS

Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois, 1982, black-and-white photograph, 20 x 16". © The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation/Art + Commerce.

PASSAGES

Lynne Cooke on Louise Bourgeois

PASSAGES

Arthur C. Danto on Arakawa

BOOKS

Graham Bader on Gerhard Richter

Live links pages from the Internet.

MEDIA

Cory Arcangel on Internet links pages

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Howl, 2010, still from a black-and-white and color film in 35 mm and Super 16 mm, 90 minutes. Allen Ginsberg (James Franco).

FILM

Steven Watson on Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl

FILM

Tom Gunning on the Oberhausen Film Festival

DISPATCH

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy on reports from Mexico City

Clyde Dillon in his studio, ca. 1969.

SLANT

Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer on Stephen Kaltenbach

Ann Liv Young, Sherry, 2007. Performance view, MoMA PS1, New York, February 27, 2010. Sherry (Ann Liv Young). Photo: Jeremy Fredericksen.

PERFORMANCE

David Velasco on Ann Liv Young

Letters

Michael Rother

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Fall Exhibitions

40 shows worldwide

Focus Preview

Paul Thek

Vault

Paul Gauguin

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QUESTIONS OF STYLE

Ina Blom

Tauba Auerbach

Giotto, The Crucifixion (detail), ca. 1305, fresco, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy.

Alexander Nagel

Ryan McGinley, Lauren, 2010, black-and-white photograph, 18 x 12".

Ryan McGinley

Peter Saville

Sturtevant

Partha Mitter

David Bordwell

Francesco Vezzoli, Homage to Josef Albers’s “Homage to the Square” (Green), 1995, cotton embroidery on canvas, 5 1/8 x 5 1/8".

Francesco Vezzoli

Denise Scott Brown

View of Haegue Yang, “Closures,” 2010, Galerie Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch, Berlin. Foreground: Non-Indépliable, blanc déteint (Non-unfoldables, White Fades), 2010. Background: Non-Indépliable, la tour verte (Non-unfoldables, the Green Tower), 2010. Photo: Nick Ash.

Haegue Yang

Donald Moffett

Tom Burr

Adrian Piper

Fia Backström

Jil Sander

PUBLIC OPTIONS: THE ART OF CHARLOTTE POSENENSKE

Christine Mehring

Lucy Raven, China Town, 2009, still from a photographic animation, 51 minutes 30 seconds.

IN CONVERSATION:

Lucy Raven and Thom Andersen

THE UNIVERSAL ADDRESSABILITY OF DUMB THINGS

Mark Leckey

1000 WORDS: ALICE CREISCHER, MAX JORGE HINDERER, AND ANDREAS SIEKMANN

André Rottmann

UNSPEAKABLE DESIRE: THE FILMS OF JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES

Dennis Lim

Simon Fujiwara, The Mirror Stage, 2009–. Performance view, Art Basel Miami Beach, December 3, 2009.

OPENINGS: SIMON FUJIWARA

Jessica Morgan

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View of “Che fare? Arte PoveraThe Historic Years,” 2010, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz.

Matthew S. Witkovsky on “Less is More” and “Che fare? Arte Povera—The Historic Years”

Nuit Banai on Yves Klein

Rabih Mroué, The Inhabitants of Images, 2009. Performance view, 2010. Photo: Liselotte Habets.

T. J. Demos on Rabih Mroué

John Smith, The Girl Chewing Gum, 1976, black-and-white film in 16 mm, 12 minutes. Installation view, Dresdener Straße 19, Berlin, 2010. Photo: Uwe Walter.

Alexander Scrimgeour on the 6th Berlin Biennale

Robert Pincus-Witten on Rafael Ferrer

Adam Kleinman on “Greater New York”

New York

Chicago

James Yood on Ewan Gibbs

Milwaukee

Michelle Grabner on Jennifer Bolande

San Francisco

Glen Helfand on Lucas Michael

Los Angeles

Vancouver

Clint Burnham on Richard Jackson

London

Glasgow

Lauren Dyer Amazeen on Jim Lambie

Paris

David Lewis on Rirkrit Tiravanija

Gennevilliers/Nantes, Francee

Claire Moulène on Mark Geffriaud

Berlin

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Alexandra Bircken

Milan

Alessandra Pioselli on Ettore Spalletti

Prato, Italy

Ida Panicelli on Paolo Canevari

Barcelona

Istanbul

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Cengiz Çekil

Amsterdam

Saskia van der Kroef on “I’m Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs”

Copenhagen

Lars Bang Larsen on Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen

Tokyo

Julia Friedman on Nobuyoshi Araki

Beijing

Colin Chinnery on Shi Qing