TABLE OF CONTENTS

February 2011

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Cover: Participants in Paweł Althamer’s Common Task, 2008–10 at the Zaventem Airport, Brussels, June 4, 2009.

February 2011, Vol. 49, No. 6

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COLUMNS

Richard Press, Bill Cunningham New York, 2010, still from a color video, 84 minutes.

FILM

Amy Taubin on Bill Cunningham New York

One of the US Food and Drug Administration’s proposed warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements.

MEDIA

Luc Sante on cigarette packaging

Crafting session for Stephanie Syjuco’s The Counterfeit Crochet Project (Critique of a Political Economy), 2006–2008. Installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2008.

SLANT

Julia Bryan-Wilson on craft and commerce

Ger van Elk, Hanging Wall, 1968, bricks, metal structure, steel wire. Installation view, Op Losse Schroeven,” Stedelijk Museum cafeteria, Amsterdam, 1969.

BOOKS

Jens Hoffmann on Exhibiting the New Art

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Susan Cianciolo

MUSIC

Hua Hsu on audiocassettes

Cover of Robert Wyatt’s Dondestan (Revisited) (Domino, 1998).

MUSIC

Alan Licht on Robert Wyatt

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Chto Delat?, The Tower: A Songspiel, 2010, still from a color video, 36 minutes 52 seconds.

COLLABORATION NOW

Michelle Kuo

Trinh T. Minh-ha (with camera), codirector Jean-Paul Bourdier (right), and crew on the set of A Tale of Love, 1994. Moon Gift Films, 1994.

JOINT VENTURES: THE STATE OF COLLABORATION

Tom Holert

Slavs and Tatars, Dig the Booty, 2009, vacuum-formed plastic, 25 1/4 x 35 7/8".

GROUP THINK: THE COLLABORATIVE ART OF SLAVS AND TATARS AND CHTO DELAT?

Nicholas Cullinan

Nikolai Suetin, design for a Unovis podium, 1921, gouache and whitening on black paper, 14 x 10 1/2".

CORPS CONCEPT: THE SOVIET COLLECTIVE

Maria Gough

Paweł Althamer, Balloon, 2007, nylon, polyester, acrylic, rope, helium, 69' x 23' x 13' 1/2". Installation view, outside the Palazzina Appiani Sports Arena, Milan. Photo: Marco de Scalzi. Fondazione Nicola Trussardi.

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: THE ART OF PAWEŁ ALTHAMER

Claire Bishop

General Idea, on the roof of their loft, 87 Yonge Street, Toronto, 1970. Back row, from left: Granada Gazelle, Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz. Front row, from left: AA Bronson, unknown (behind mirror), Daniel Freedman.

AA Bronson

Gelitin on “Boring Island,” Stockholm, 2009. From left: Tobias Urban, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Wolfgang Gantner.

Gelitin

MadeIn, In mass exercise, the greater the conflict between theory and reality, the stronger its eagerness to impose beliefs on others, 2010, color photograph, 59 x 103 3/8". From the series “True Image,” 2010–.

MadeIn

Guyton\Walker, Untitled, 2009, paint, Formica table, digital ink-jet print on drywall, digital ink-jet print on paint cans. Installation view, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2010. Photo: Mitro Hood.

Guyton\Walker

DAS INSTITUT launching their Schröderline Collection, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2011. Photo: Nguyen Quang Giang.

Das Institut

Claire Fontaine installing Grève Humaine (Interrompue) (Human Strike [Interrupted]), 2009, for the exhibition “To the Arts, Citizens!,” Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, November 2010.

Claire Fontaine

Paul Gellman (left) during Tall Paul’s Arts and Crafts Night for “Big Deal Tiny Creatures,” DIY Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles, January 4, 2011.

Tiny Creatures

ARTIST PROJECT: HIJIME

Kai Althoff

DARK ENERGY: THE ART OF MARCO FUSINATO

Branden W. Joseph

Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010, stills from a single-channel color video, 24 hours.

CLOSE-UP: BORROWED TIME

David Velasco on Christian Marclay’s The Clock

Eric Rohmer, Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon (The Romance of Astrea and Celadon), 2007, still from a color film in 35 mm, 109 minutes. Léonide (Cécile Cassel) and Céladon (Andy Gillet).

COMING OF AGE: LATE STYLE AND THE FRENCH NEW WAVE

James Quandt

Carter Mull, Delicacy (details), 2010, video, printed screen, projector, amplifier, batteries, dye-sublimation print, dimensions variable. Video still.

OPENINGS: CARTER MULL

Michael Ned Holte

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Carl Andre, Chinati Thirteener, 2010, hot-rolled steel, thirteen rows of ten parts, each 1/4 x 12 x 36". Installation view, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX.

Jeffrey Weiss on Carl Andre

Giuseppe Penone, Propagazione (Propagation), 1995–, typographic ink and graphite on paper, felt-tip pen on wall. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011.Photo: Jonathan Muzikar. © Giuseppe Penone/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

Carol Armstrong on “On Line”

View of “Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974,” 2010, Philadelphia Museum of Art. From left: Biennale 66, 1966; No all’aumento del tram (No to the Raise of the Tram Fare), 1965.

Romy Golan on Michelangelo Pistoletto

Thierry Geoffroy during the filming of his work Artist Colonialist Investigating for TV: Is There a Dialogue with the Spanish and You Northern African?, 2010, Murcia, Spain, 2010. Photo: Rian Lozano.

Sabeth Buchmann on Manifesta 8

Rebecca Morris, Untitled (#01–10), 2010, oil and spray paint on canvas, 84 x 72".

New York

Craig Drennen, Untitled (The Masquers), 2010, ink, acrylic, oil, enamel, and aluminum foil on canvas, each canvas 20 x 16".

Boston

Francine Koslow Miller on Craig Drennen

Julia Margaret Cameron, The Kiss of Peace, 1869, albumen print from wet-plate collodion negative, 12 3/4 x 9 1/2".

Pittsburgh

Jaleh Mansoor on Julia Margaret Cameron

Keith Sonnier, Catahoula, 1994, mixed media, neon, found objects, 56 x 29 x 24". From the series “Tidewater,” 1994.

Baton Rouge, LA

Nick Stillman on Keith Sonnier

Josiah McElheny, Blue Italian Modernism and Yellow Czech Modernism, 2010, handblown glass with flashed color, extruded colored glass filters, LED electric lighting, painted wood display structure, 21 x 65 x 18 3/4".

Chicago

View of “Gary Simmons, 2010. Foreground: Greetings and Salutations, 2010. Background: Credit Roll, 2010.

San Francisco

Gwen Allen on Gary Simmons

Naotaka Hiro, Night and Fog, Tubes on Black Mountain, 2010, still from a digital video, 22 minutes.

Los Angeles

Ted Willcox, Unitled (Pin-Ups), ca. 1940–60, tapestry, 21 1/4 x 45 5/8". From “Exhibition #3.”

London

Étienne Chambaud, Objet rédimé (The Bottle), 2010, glass, wire cable, pulley, dimensions variable.

Paris

View of “Bernard Piffaretti,” 2010. From left: Poncif, 2008–10; Sans Titre, 2009.

Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France

Guitemie Maldonado on Bernard Piffaretti

Pavel Büchler, Eclipse, 2009, mixed-media installation. From “The Reality of Lowest Rank.”

Bruges, Belgium

Noemi Smolik on “The Reality of Lowest Rank”

Elisabeth Neudörfl, Untitled, 2010, gelatin silver print, 19 5/8 x 15 1/2". From the series “Habitat,” 2010.

Berlin

Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg, El Taco, 2010, iron and nickel, two halves, each approx. 23 5/8 x 51 x 63".

Frankfurt

Catrin Lorch on Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg

Tim Zulauf/KMUProduktionen, Der Bau der Wörter (The Construction of Words), 2010. Performance view.

Zurich

Hans Rudolf Reust on Tim Zulauf

View of “John Armleder,” 2010.

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Hans Rudolf Reust on John Armleder

Joseph Kosuth, Texts for Nothing #3, 2010, glass, white neon, black paint, 8 1/8 x 44 5/8".

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Joseph Kosuth

Flavio de Marco, Paesaggio con veduta (Roma I) (Landscape with View [Rome I]), 2010, acrylic and digital print on canvas, 70 7/8 x 117 1/4".

Reggio Emilia, Italy

Alessandra Pioselli on Flavio de Marco

Geta Bratescu, Medeic Callisthetic Moves II, 1980, yarn on fabric, 23 5/8 x 19 5/8".

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Geta Bratescu

View of “Simone Ruess,” 2010. From left: Okno (Palace Window), 2010; Żyrandol (Chandelier), 2010; Kaseton (Ceiling Panel), 2010.

Warsaw

Sylwia Serafinowicz-Wesolowska on Simone Ruess

Andrei Monastyrsky, Fountain, 1996, photographs mounted on sixteen boards, wheat flour, 7' 2“ x 19' 8” x 19' 8".

Moscow

Margarita Tupitsyn on Andrei Monastyrsky

Liu Wei, Merely a Mistake II, 2010, mixed media. From the 8th Shanghai Biennale.

Shanghai

Lee Ambrozy on 8th Shanghai Biennale

Taro Izumi, Untitled, 2010, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Kanagawa, Japan

Midori Matsui on Taro Izumi

Scott Redford, Surf Painting/Black Palms, 2001, resin, decal, fiberglass, and acrylic on foam, 48 1/4 x 73 1/8".

Brisbane

Rex Butler on Scott Redford

Rubén Valencia, El futuro del capitalismo (The Future of Capitalism), 1977, black-and-white photograph, 3 1/2 x 4 3/4". From “No-Grupo: Un zangoloteo a corsé artístico” (No-Group: Ripping the Artistic Corset), 2010.

Mexico City

Juan Vicente Aliaga on “No-Grupo”