TABLE OF CONTENTS

November 2010

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Cover: Ryan Gander, Suggesting Everything, 2010, postcard, the 4th Baron of Egerton’s 16 Plumed Bird of Paradise, Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1892, 4 x 6".

November 2010, Vol. 49, No. 3

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COLUMNS

MEDIA

Peter Galison and Caroline A. Jones on representations of oil spills

FILM

Ed Halter on “Radical Light”

FILM

Amy Taubin on Michel Auder

Obayashi Nobuhiko, House, 1977, stills from a color film in 35 mm, 88 minutes. Fantasy (Ohba Kumiko).

FILM

Tony Rayns on Obayashi Nobuhiko’s House

Cover of Lawrence Rinder’s Revenge of the Decorated Pigs.

BOOKS

David Rimanelli on Lawrence Rinder’s Revenge of the Decorated Pigs

BOOKS

Bruce Hainley on Roland Barthes

AES+F, The Feast of Trimalchio (detail), 2008–, HD digital projections, photographs, sculptures, dimensions variable. Shown: Triptych 1, Panorama 3, 2010, ink on paper, 35 1/2 x 88 1/2". Photo: Claire Oliver.

DISPATCH

Ekaterina Degot on reports from Moscow

A. K. Burns and A. L. Steiner, Community Action Center, 2010, color video, 69 minutes. Production still. Rhys Ernst and Mai Khunt.

PERFORMANCE

David Velasco on A. K. Burns and A. L. Steiner’s Community Action Center

Dara Puspita, London, 1969. Photo: Handiyanto.

MUSIC

Hua Hsu on Indonesian pop

ARCHITECTURE

Noah Chasin on STEALTH.unlimited

SLANT

Nick Stillman on Marlene McCarty

top ten

Christian Holstad

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CHARACTER STUDY: THE ART OF MICHAELA MEISE

Isabelle Graw

Composite of actual and proposed sites for installations of Jennifer Bolande’s Plywood Curtains, Los Angeles, 2010. Photo: The artist.

1000 WORDS: JENNIFER BOLANDE

Sharon Lockhart

View of “Hors-Jeu” (Out of Bounds), 2001, gb agency, Paris. Foreground: Robert Breer, Float, 1970. Middleground: Robert Breer, Rug #5, 1965. Background: Robert Breer, Beam, 1966. Photo: Marc Domage.

EVERYTHING GOES: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT BREER

Michelle Kuo

THE DISCOVERY OF SLOWNESS: THE FILMS OF MANON DE BOER

T. J. Demos

A TORRENT OF IDEAS ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY

Project curated by Ryan Gander

CLOSE-UP: BODY OF EVIDENCE

Leora Maltz-Leca on Marlene Dumas’s Liberty

Bojan Šarčević, World Corner, 1999, bricks, plaster, wallpaper, wood. Installation view, Carlier/Gebauer, Berlin.

UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASMS: THE ART OF BOJAN ŠARČEVIĆ

Martin Herbert

OPENINGS: IÑAKI BONILLAS

Tom McDonough

Security camera installed by CAMP (Shaina Anand, Nida Ghouse, and Ashok Sukumaran with Mahmoud Jiddah, Shereen Barakat, and Mahasen Nasser-Eldin) as part of Al jaar qabla al dar (The Neighbour Before the House), 2009–, East Jerusalem, 2009. Photo: Nida Ghouse.

OPENINGS: CAMP

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

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James Meyer on Francis Alÿs

Mark Bradford, The Some of Its Parts, 2004, billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, acrylic gel medium, curlpapers, acrylic paint, additional mixed media on canvas, 60 x 70".

Jaleh Mansoor on Mark Bradford

Thomas Schütte, Ferienhaus für Terroristen (Vacation House for Terrorists), 2009, wood, fabric, 11' 5 3/4“ x 59' 2 3/4” x 26' 9 1/4". Photo: David Ertl.

Astrid Wege on Thomas Schütte

New York

Milwaukee

Michelle Grabner on Warrington Colescott

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Franklin Melendez on Will Rogan

Montreal

Miguel Amado on Luis Jacob

London

Paris

Lillian Davies on Dove Allouche

Bordeaux, France

Claire Moulène on Benoît Maire

Berlin

Hamburg

Jens Asthoff on Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler

Glückstadt, Germany

Jens Asthoff on Annette Kisling

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Sean Shanahan

Vienna

Francesco Stocchi on Heinrich Kühn

Schiedam, The Netherlands

Saskia van der Kroef on Gert Jan Kocken

Leuven, Belgium

Yoann Van Parys on Philippe Van Snick

Göteborg, Sweden

Ronald Jones on Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena

São Paulo