TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2011

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Cover: Trisha Brown, Spanish Dance, 1973. Performance view, Tate Modern, London, October 18, 2010. Leah Morrison, Tamara Riewe, Megan Armishaw, Laurel Tentindo, Virginia Scudeletti.

January 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Bob Dylan in the studio, ca. 1962. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.

BOOKS

John Elderfield on Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Frankfurt Kitchen from the Ginnheim-Höhenblick Housing Estate (reconstruction), 1926–27, Frankfurt, 8' 9“ x 12' 10” x 6' 10".

DESIGN

Sandy Isenstadt on kitchen design and “Counter Space”

Martin Kippenberger, New York, 1979. © Estate of Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.

SOUND

Alan Licht on Martin Kippenberger’s Musik 1979–1995

Marc Bauer, untitled, 2009, pencil and lithographic chalk on paper, 12 5/8 x 17 3/4". From the series Monument,” 2009.

SLANT

Benjamin Paul on Marc Bauer

Thomas Eakins, Salutat, 1898, 50 x 40", oil on canvas.

SLANT

Steven Watson on “Hide/Seek”

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Amy Yao

Catherine Christer Hennix’s poster design for the 1976 Brouwer’s Lattice music festival at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, at which The Electric Harpsichord was performed and recorded.

MEDIA

Henry Flynt on Catherine Christer Hennix’s The Electric Harpsichord

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WINTER 2011 EXHIBITIONS: 45 shows worldwide

William Leavitt, Hillside Lights (Incandescent) (detail), 2004, oil on canvas, 24 x 60".

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William Leavitt

Interior of Pablo Picasso’s studio, 1912, 242, boulevard Raspail, Paris, 1912.

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“Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914”

Fateh al-Moudarres, The Last Supper, 1965, mixed media, 70 x 35".

International News

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

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Trisha Brown performing Roof Piece, New York, 1971. Photo: Babette Mangolte.

YOU CAN STILL SEE HER: THE ART OF TRISHA BROWN

Douglas Crimp

Paul Thek, Untitled (Hand with Ring), 1967, wood, plaster, paint, metal, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2". Photo: Peter Hujar, 1967.

BODY OF INFLUENCE: SIX VIEWS ON PAUL THEK

Paul Thek, Warrior’s Arm, 1967, wax, paint, leather, metal, wood, resin, Plexiglas, 9 1/2 x 39 x 9 1/2". From the series “Technological Reliquaries,” 1964–67.

MIKE KELLEY

Paul Thek, Meat Piece with Warhol Brillo Box, 1965, wax, painted wood, Plexiglas, 14 x 17 x 17". From the series “Technological Reliquaries,” 1964–67.

GARY INDIANA

Paul Thek, Untitled, 1966, wax, paint, polyester resin, nylon microfilament, wire, plaster, plywood, melamine laminate, rhodium-plated bronze, Plexiglas, 14 x 15 x 7 1/2". From the series “Technological Reliquaries,” 1964–67.

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN

Paul Thek, Untitled (Dwarf Parade Table), 1969, wood, plaster, eggs, photographs, drawings, plastic, ceramic plates, glass, metal, gum, latex, paint, taxidermic dog, fabric, chairs, 34 1/2 x 92 1/2 x 29 3/4". Installation view, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

JOHN MILLER

View of “Paul Thek: A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress: Objects to Theoretically Wear, Carry, Pull or Wave,” Galerie M. E. Thelen, Essen, West Germany, 1968.

NEIL JENNEY

Paul Thek, The Painter Paints, 1985, watercolor and pencil on paper, 18 x 24".

CHRIS KRAUS

Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, 1954, color film in 35 mm, 112 minutes. Production still. L. B. “Jeff” Jeffries (James Stewart).

POP BEFORE POP: WELLES, SIRK, HITCHCOCK

J. Hoberman

Ryu Hwan-gi, Soldiers Longing for Return, ca. 2002, oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 21". © The Trustees of the British Museum.

CLOSE-UP: PARTY LINES

Joan Kee on Ryu Hwan-gi’s Soldiers Longing for Return and North Korean painting

Adolf Ziegler, Die vier Elemente. Feuer, Wasser und Erde, Luft (The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air), ca. 1937, oil on canvas, three panels, from left: 67 x 33 1/2“, 67 3/8 x 75 1/8”, 63 1/2 x 30 1/8".

PRESERVATION SOCIETY: TWO VIEWS ON “CHAOS AND CLASSICISM”

Hal Foster

Giorgio de Chirico, Gladiateurs au repos (Gladiators at Rest), 1928–29, oil on canvas, 617⁄8 x 78". Estate of Giorgio de Chirico/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome.

PRESERVATION SOCIETY: TWO VIEWS ON “CHAOS AND CLASSICISM”

Robert Pincus-Witten

Robert Irwin, Freeway Monument, 1977. Photographic documentation of proposed site. All works by Robert Irwin © Robert Irwin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

FOUR PROPOSALS

Robert Irwin

View of Saâdane Afif: Anthologie de l’humour noir (Anthology of Black Humor), 2010, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn.

1000 WORDS: SAÂDANE AFIF

François Piron

Kurt Schwitters, Merzbau, ca. 1923–36, mixed media, 12' 10 3/4“ x 19' 3/8” x 15' 1". Reconstruction by Peter Bissegger, 1981–83/1988. All works by Kurt Schwitters © Estate of Kurt Schwitters/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

RATE OF EXCHANGE: THE ART OF KURT SCHWITTERS

Graham Bader

Miriam Böhm, Inventory I, 2010, color photograph, 31 1⁄2 x 23 5/8".

OPENINGS: MIRIAM BÖHM

Brendan Fay

View of Nina Könnemann, The Apple in the Eye of the Worm, 2000, color video (on monitor). Apple Car Service, Hull, UK.

OPENINGS: NINA KÖNNEMANN

Nick Mauss

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Kerry James Marshall, De Style, 1993, acrylic and collage on canvas, 8' 8“ x 10' 2”.

Jordan Kantor on Kerry James Marshall

Artur Żmijewski, Blindly, 2010, still from a single-channel video, 18 minutes.

Daniel Birnbaum on the 8th Gwangju Biennale

Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled (Annika Ström invite), ca. 1998, felt-tip pen on printed paper, 6 x 4 1/2".

Sarah Boxer on Yoshitomo Nara

Jacques Lipchitz, Theseus and the Minotaur, 1942, bronze, 24 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 16".

New York

View of Virgil Marti’s “Set Pieces,” 2010.

Philadelphia

Paul Galvez on Virgil Marti

View of “Ann Hamilton,” 2010.

Saint Louis

Ivy Cooper on Ann Hamilton

View of SITE Santa Fe Biennial, 2010.

Santa Fe, NM

Catherine Taft on SITE Santa Fe Biennial

Eric Stotik, untitled, 2010, acrylic on wood panel, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2".

Portland, OR

Jon Raymond on Eric Stotik

Ben Vautier, Total Art Match-Box, 1965, matchbox with offset-printed paper label, 1 3/8 x 2 x 1/2“. From “Debris from the Cultural Underground.”

San Francisco

Brian Dick with Christen Sperry-Garcia, The Nationwide Museum Mascot Project presents: OCMAscot, 2010. Performance view. From the 2010 California Biennial.

Newport Beach, CA

Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer on 2010 California Biennial

Zoe Crosher with Leslie Grant, Cindy Shermanesque (But She’s the Real Thing) (detail), 2005, 12 light-jet prints mounted on Plexiglas, dimensions variable.

Los Angeles

Michael Ned Holte on Zoe Crosher

View of Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, “Bright White Underground,” 2010.

Los Angeles

Jan Tumlir on Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe

View of “Angela Bulloch,” 2010.

London

Phil Collins, marxism today (prologue), 2010, HD video installation, 35 minutes. Projection view.

Dublin

Maeve Connolly on Phil Collins

Yazid Oulab, Échafaudage (Scaffolding), 2009, rope and resin, approx. 118 1/8 x 61 3/8 x 20 7/8".

Paris

Eugène Leroy, Nu rose (Pink Nude), 1956, oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 25 5/8".

Tourcoing, France

Barry Schwabsky on Eugène Leroy

View of “Rainier Lericolais,” 2010. Foreground: Hommage à Robert Le Ricolais, 2010. Background, inside vitrines, Tentative de moulage d’explosion 3 (Attempt to Cast Explosion 3), 2009; Tentative de moulage d’explosion 4 (Attempt to Cast Explosion 4), 2009; Tentative de moulage d’explosion 6 (Attempt to Cast Explosion 6), 2009.

Chamarande, France

Guitemie Maldonado on Rainier Lericolais

Dor Guez, Samira, Lod Ghetto, a Year After 1948 (detail), 2010, 23 5/8 x 29 1/2". From the series “Scanograms #1,” 2010.

Berlin

View of “Tobias Madison,” 2010.

Munich

Dominikus Müller on Tobias Madison

Agnieszka Polska, Objekt 7 (Object 7), 2008, photocollage, 15 x 9 7/8". From the series “Objekty” (Objects), 2008.

Cottbus, Germany

Jurriaan Benschop on Agnieszka Polska

Corrado Levi, Quasi, autoamori di Johnny (Almost, Johnny’s Self-Loves) (detail), 2004–10, semen and ink on paper, dimensions variable.

Milan

Mary Kelly and Ray Barrie, Habitus, 2010, laser-cut cast acrylic, mirror, wood, 48 x 96 x 96". Installation view.

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Mary Kelly

Tamara Arroyo, Family Volvo, 2010, ink on paper, 15 x 22". From the series Ejercicios de memoria III (Memory Exercises III), 2010.

Madrid

Pablo Llorca on Tamara Arroyo

View of “Setareh Shahbazi,” 2010.

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Setareh Shahbazi

Rosana Schoijett, Untitled, 2010, collage, 10 5/8 x 7 5/8".

Buenos Aires

María Gainza on Rosana Schoijett