TABLE OF CONTENTS

April 2011

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John Armleder, E Hoi E, 2001, neon, 59 x 59". Photo: Jean Brasille.

April 2011, Vol. 49, No. 8

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COLUMNS

Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet, ca. 1970. Photo: Redferns/Getty Images.

PASSAGES

Greil Marcus on Captain Beefheart

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Skyros, Greece, ca. 1980. Photo: Karl Flinker.

BOOKS

Terry Eagleton on François Dosse’s Deleuze & Guattari

Thomas Kinkade, Sweetheart Cottage III, The View from Havencrest Cottage, 1994, oil on canvas, 18 x 24". © 1994 Thomas Kinkade.

BOOKS

Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier on Thomas Kinkade

Michelangelo Frammartino, Le quattro volte (Four Times), 2010, still from a color film in 35 mm, 88 minutes.

FILM

James Quandt on Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le quattro volte

Clio Barnard, The Arbor, 2010, still from a color HD video, 90 minutes. Lorraine (Manjinder Virk) and Lisa Thompson (Christine Bottomley).

FILM

Melissa Anderson on Clio Barnard’s The Arbor

Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 2010, color HD video, 95 minutes. Production still. Foreground: Werner Herzog. Photo: Mark Valesella.

FILM

Tim Griffin on Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams

top ten

Christian von Borries

Sue de Beer, The Ghosts, 2011, color two-channel video, pillows, carpet, screen. Installation view, Park Avenue Armory, New York. Photo: James Ewing.

ON SITE

Alan Licht on Sue de Beer’s The Ghosts

Sergei Paradjanov, The Departure of the Wardrobe, 1977, paper, tinted birch bark, magazine clipping, fabric, foil, 6 x 9 7/8". From the series “Inventory of Confiscated Belongings,” 1977.

ON SITE

Nathan Dunne on the Sergei Paradjanov Museum

columns features reviews

Marcel Duchamp, Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette (Beautiful Breath, Veil Water), 1921, perfume bottle with label in oval box, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 x approx. 1 1/2".

CLOSE-UP: A RROSE IN BERLIN

Hal Foster on Marcel Duchamp’s Belle Haleine

View of John Armleder, “Too Much Is Not Enough, 2006, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany. Photo: Raimund Zakowski.

TO BE DETERMINED: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN ARMLEDER

Fabrice Stroun

Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 18, 2011. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images.

CIRCLING THE SQUARE: ARCHITECTURE AND REVOLUTION IN CAIRO

Nasser Rabbat

Robert Whitman, Passport, 2011. Rehearsal view, Hudson River, Beacon, NY, November 11, 2010. Heidi Sorger and Curtis Harvey. Photo: Ben Bloom.

1000 WORDS: ROBERT WHITMAN

Liz Kotz

Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, 1929, still from a black-and-white film in 35 mm, 68 minutes.

A REVOLUTION IN FILM: THE CINEMA OF DZIGA VERTOV

John MacKay

Jan Timme, Sweeping the Desert (detail), 2007, two black-and-white framed photographs, 61 1/2 x 50 1/4“ and 27 1/2 x 32”.

OPENINGS: JAN TIMME

André Rottmann

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Stan VanDerBeek, Movie Mural, 1968/2011, mixed media. Installation view, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2011.

William Kaizen on Stan VanDerBeek

George Condo, The Stockbroker, 2002, oil on canvas, 96 x 80".

David Rimanelli on George Condo

David Hammons, Untitled, 2010, mixed media, 92 x 72".

New York

James Lee Byars, A 1000-Foot Chinese Paper, 1965. Performance view, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, January 13, 1965.

Pittsburgh

Jaleh Mansoor on James Lee Byars

John Henderson, Flowers, 2010, framed color photograph, 15 x 13".

Chicago

Michelle Grabner on John Henderson

View of “Lisa Tan,” 2010. Foreground: National Geographic, 2009. Background: Letters from Dr. Bamberger, 2001–.

Austin, TX

Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Lisa Tan

Mamma Andersson, Hobnob, 2010, acrylic and oil on panel, 48 x 59".

Aspen, CO

Kyle MacMillan on Mamma Andersson

Katy Grannan, Anonymous, San Francisco, 2009, color photograph mounted on Plexiglas, 26 x 19 1/2".

San Francisco

Franklin Melendez on Katy Grannan

Jill Giegerich, To B. H. (2) (JG2009-11), 2009, oil on canvas, 30 x 23".

Los Angeles

Brad Spence, Courtroom, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 49 1/2 x 67".

Los Angelas

Jan Tumlir on Brad Spence

Phoebe Unwin, Swimmer, 2010, acrylic, pastel, and pastel ground on canvas, 67 x 47 1/2".

London

Declan Clarke, We’ll Be This Way Until the End of the World, 2008, color film in 16 mm transferred to video, 4 minutes 5 seconds. Installation view.

Dublin

Maeve Connolly on Declan Clarke

Luc Delahaye, Les Pillards (Looters), 2010, color photograph, 62 1/2 x 86 5/8".

Paris

Michael Fried on Luc Delahaye

Luke Fowler and Toshiya Tsunoda, Ridges on the Horizontal Plane (detail), 2010–11, 16-mm film and slide projection.

Cologne

Natilee Harren on Luke Fowler and Toshiya Tsunoda

Fabrice Samyn, From Matter, 2010, egg tempera and oil on canvas, 11 3/4 x 9 1/2".

Düsseldorf

Noemi Smolik on Fabrice Samyn

Milan

Marisa Albanese, Partiture per mani sole (Score for Hands Only), 2005, still from a three-channel black-and-white video installation, 3 minutes 20 seconds.

Naples

Cathryn Drake on Marisa Albanese

Katrina Daschner, Flamingo Massacre, 2011, color photograph, 24 3/8 x 44".

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Katrina Daschner

Katarzyna Kozyra, Cheerleader, 2006, still from a color video, 4 minutes 30 seconds.

Warsaw

Marek Bartelik on Katarzyna Kozyra

Daniel Balabán, Plants, 1996, watercolor on canvas, 63 x 47 1/4". From “. . . and don’t forget the flowers.”

Brno, Czech Republic

Matthew S. Witkovsky on “. . . and don’t forget the flowers”

Anna Barham, Arena, 2011, wood and MDF, 3' 3 3/8“ x 13' 11 3/8” x 13' 11 3/8".

Stockhlom

Ronald Jones on Anna Barham

Henrik Olesen, I do not go to work today. I don’t think I go tomorrow (detail), 2010, mixed media, 78 3/4 x 59".

Malmö, Sweden

Tom Hermansen on Henrik Olesen

John Latham, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1971, still from a black-and-white film in 16 mm, 6 minutes. From “Atlas.

Madrid

Martí Peran on “Atlas”

Samuel Beckett, Not I, 1975, black-and-white film in 16 mm, 13 minutes. Installation view.

Seville, Spain

Juan Vicente Aliaga on Samuel Beckett

Kostis Velonis, Reconstruction of the model of Vladimir Tatlin’s monument to the Third International as an instrument of research for domesticity, 2009, wood, acrylic, veneer, plywood, spray paint, 43 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4".

Athens

Barry Schwabsky on Kostis Velonis

Odani Motohiko, Dying Slave: Stella, 2009–10, steel, paraffin, wax, 5' 10 7/8“ x 16' 5” x 7' 2 5/8".

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