TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2011

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Cover: R. H. Quaytman, Cherchez Holopherne, Chapter 21, 2011, oil, silk-screen ink, and gesso on wood, 20 x 20".

September 2011, Vol. 50, No. 1

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COLUMNS

Xiao Lu, Dialogue, 1989, color photograph, 31 7/8 x 47 1/8".

BOOKS

Craig Clunas on Gao Minglu’s Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

Raúl Ruiz, Mistérios de Lisboa (Mysteries of Lisbon), 2010, still from a color digital video, 257 minutes.

FILM

James Quandt on Raúl Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon

Sven Augustijnen, Spectres, 2011, stills from a color video, 103 minutes.

FILM

Rachel Haidu on Sven Augustijnen’s Spectres

Nicolás Guagnini, The Panel Discussion, the Tennis Match, and a Bodegón, 2011, oil on shaped aluminum composite panel, carved wooden figures, miniature easel with facsimile catalogue, plywood table, twenty-second audio loop. Installation views, Andrew Roth, New York.

SLANT

David Joselit on Nicolás Guagnini’s The Panel Discussion, the Tennis Match, and a Bodegón

Jack Smith, Normal Love, 1963, still from a color film in 16 mm, 95 minutes.

SLANT

J. Hoberman on Jack Smith’s posthumous career

Louise Bourgeois, The Damned, the Possessed, and the Beloved, 2007–10, aluminum, stainless steel, concrete, sand, fire. Installation view, Steilneset Memorial, Vardø, Norway, 2011. Photo: Guri Dahl.

ON SITE

Gary Indiana on the Steilneset Memorial

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Chandler Burr

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Asco, Termites y Guerrero, 1975. Performance view during Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), East Los Angeles, 1975. Photo: Ricardo Valverde. From “Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987.”

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“Pacific Standard Time”

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FALL 2011 EXHIBITIONS 45 shows worldwide

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View of “Baton Sinister,” 2011, an exhibition by Bjarne Melgaard with Paola Angelini, Michelangelo Corsaro, Cecilia Divizia, Elisa Fantin, Marco Fellini, Corinne Mazzoli, Nicole Moserle, Beatrice Piva, Valentina Roselli, Alessio Sacchetto, Valeria Romagnini Solfato and Davide Spillari, Palazzo Contarini Corfù, Venice. Shown: Room with works by Bjarne Melgaard installed by the artist. On-screen: Untitled (Bjarne Melgaard Interviews Leo Bersani), 2011.

VENICE 2011

View of “ILLUMInations,” 2011, Central Pavilion, Venice. From left: Gabriel Kuri, Three Arrested Clouds, 2010; Gabriel Kuri, Upside Down Horizontal Line, 2011; Gabriel Kuri, Communication Diagram, 2011; Gabriel Kuri, Dotted Line, 2011. Photo: Kate Lacey.

CLAIRE BISHOP

View of “Christoph Schlingensief,” 2011, German pavilion, Venice. Christoph Schlingensief, A Church of Fear vs. the Alien Within: Fluxus Oratorio, 2008. Photo: Kate Lacey.

DANIEL BIRNBAUM

View of “L’arte non è Cosa Nostra (Art Is Not the Cosa Nostra), 2011, Italian pavilion, Venice. Foreground: Bertozzi & Casoni, Sedia elettrica con farfalle (Electric Chair with Butterflies), 2010. Background: Gaetano Pesce, L’Italia in croce (Italy on the Cross), 2011. Photo: Kate Lacey.

FRANCESCO BONAMI

Jacopo Tintoretto, Last Supper, 1591–94, oil on canvas, 12' × 18' 8".

BENJAMIN PAUL

Gianni Colombo, Spazio elastico (Elastic Space), 1967, fluorescent elastic bands, electric engines, Wood’s lamp. Installation view, Central Pavilion, Venice. From “ILLUMInations.”

TIM GRIFFIN

View of “Baton Sinister,” 2011, an exhibition by Bjarne Melgaard and students, Palazzo Contarini Corfù, Venice. Photo: Guilio Squillacciotti.

JOHN KELSEY

Documentary photographs, string from Collective Actions performance Time of Action, 1978, Russian pavilion, Venice, 2011. From “Empty Zones.” Photo: Kate Lacey.

NICHOLAS CULLINAN

R. H. Quaytman, Exhibition Guide, Chapter 15 (DvS 4), 2009, silk-screen ink and gesso on wood, 20 x 20".

TABULA RASA: THE ART OF R. H. QUAYTMAN

Paul Galvez

Thomas Hirschhorn, Crystal of Resistance (detail), 2011, mixed media. Installation view, Swiss pavilion, Venice. From the 54th Venice Biennale. Photo: Kate Lacey.

TRUTH OR DARE: THE ART OF WITNESSING

David Joselit

Martin Barré, Greenwich, 1957, oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 78 3/4".

CLOSE-UP: LEAP YEAR

Yve-Alain Bois on Martin Barré’s Greenwich and 60–T–44

Goshka Macuga with Simon Moretti, Element 7: Magic Star, 2006, floor painting, logs, artworks by Mai-Thu Perret and an unknown artist. From Goshka Macuga, Sleep of Ulro, 2006. Installation view, Greenland Street, Liverpool. From the 4th Liverpool Biennial. Foreground, left: Mai-Thu Perret, Le Fée Idéologie (The Fairy Ideology), 2004. Back-ground, right: Artist unknown, Journeyman, n.d. Photo: Andy Stagg.

FOREST FOR THE TREES: THE ART OF GOSHKA MACUGA

Dieter Roelstraete

Adrián Villar Rojas, Ahora estaré con mi hijo, el asesino de tu herencia (Now I Will Be with My Son, the Murderer of Your Heritage), 2011, clay, cement, burlap, wood. Installation view, Argentinean pavilion, Venice. From the 54th Venice Biennale.

OPENINGS: ADRIÁN VILAR ROJAS

Jessica Morgan

Olivia Plender, Machine Shall Be the Slave of Man, but We Will Not Slave for the Machine, 2009, mixed media, video. Installation view, Tate Britain, London. From the 4th Tate Triennial. Photo: Sam Drake.

OPENINGS: OLIVIA PLENDER

Brian Dillon

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View of “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–77,” 2011, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. From left: Untitled, ca. 1967; Untitled, 1969-70; Untitled, 1971, Untitled, 1968–69; Blau/Grün (Blue/Green), 1968. Photo: Lee Stalsworth.

Christine Mehring on Blinky Palermo and “If you lived here, you’d be home by now

Richard Serra, Black Tracks, 2002, paint stick on handmade paper, 51 1/4 x 50".

Jeffrey Weiss on Richard Serra

View of “Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever,” 2011. Photo: Matthew Septimus.

Sam Pulitzer on Ryan Trecartin

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Primitive, 2009, still from a two-channel video, 29 minutes 35 seconds.

Dennis Lim on Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Zofia Rydet, Landscapes, ca. 1975, black-and-white photograph, 10 1/2 x 9". From the series “The World of Feelings and Imagination.”

New York

Juan Downey, Information Withheld, 1983, still from a color video, 28 minutes 27 seconds. From the series “The Thinking Eye,” 1974–89.

Cambridge, MA

Daniel Quiles on Juan Downey

*View of “Marianne Mueller,” 2011.

Salem, MA

Martha Buskirk on Marianne Mueller

Oscar Muñoz, Line of Destiny, 2006, still from a color video, 1 minute 56 seconds.

Winston-Salem, NC

David M. Lubin on Oscar Muñoz

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation (detail), 1965/2011, three chromo-cubicles (fluorescent light with blue, red, and green filters), dimensions variable.

Houston

Nuit Banai on Carlos Cruz-Diez

Takeshi Murata, Golden Banana, 2011, pigment print, 30 x 42 1/2".

San Francisco

Franklin Melendez on Takeshi Murata

Eduardo Consuegra, Untitled (2%), 2011, framed magazine pages, 24 1/2 x 26 1/2".

Los Angeles

Clem Crosby, Vintage Valve, 2011, oil on Formica mounted on aluminum, 30 x 24 x 1 1/4".

London

View of “Sarah Browne,” 2011. Back left, and front: Second Burial at Le Blanc, 2011. On bench: On Hoarding, Accumulation, and Gifting, 2011.

Dublin

Maeve Connolly on Sarah Browne

documentation céline duval, Les Allumeuses, 1998–2010, Telephones, 2011, still from a color video, 5 minutes 50 seconds.

Paris

Jian-Xing Too on documentation céline duval

Boris Mikhailov, Tea Coffee Cappuccino, 2000–10, color photograph, 9 3/4 x 16 1/4". From the series “Tea Coffee Cappuccino,” 2000–10.

Berlin

Mel Chin, Safe, 2005, oil on Belgian linen, gilded wood and plaster, weathered wood, nails, 11' 1“ x 7' x 1' 6”.

Cologne

Astrid Wege on Mel Chin

Phyllida Barlow, untitled: structure, 2011, wood, paint, plaster, and screws, approx. 33' x 56' x 25' 6". Installation view.

Nuremberg, Germany

Noemi Smolik on Phyllida Barlow

Daniele Buetti, Oh Boy Oh Boy VI, 2011, ink-jet print covered with laser-contour-cut acrylic glass,70 7/8 x 55 1/8". From the series “Oh Boy Oh Boy,” 2008–.

Zurich

Hans Rudolf Reust on Daniele Buetti

Sung Hwan Kim, Line Wall (detail), 2011, mixed media. Installation view.

Basel

Quinn Latimer on Sung Hwan Kim

Pae White, Better Places, 2011, mirror, aluminum thread, painted paper, vinyl, dimensions variable.

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Pae White

Mel Ramos, The Four Seasons, Autumn, 1982, oil on canvas, 42 1/8 x 92 3/8". From the series “The Four Seasons,” 1982–84.

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Mel Ramos

View of “Jiří Thýn,” 2011. Foreground: Untitled, 2011. Background, from left: Space, Abstraction 2, 2011; Space, Abstraction 1, 2011.

Prague

Markéta Stará on Jiří Thýn

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin and Michael Morris, Heterotopia, 1992, mixed media, 98 1/2 x 65".

Istanbul

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin

Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Shaped Cinema, 2010, still from an HD video, 13 minutes.

Amsterdam

Giorgio Verzotti on Jean-Baptiste Maitre

Maria Hedlund, Upplöst #6 (Dissolved #6), 2001, black-and-white photograph, 9 3/8 x 11 3/4". From the series “Upplöst” (Dissolved), 2011.

Malmö, Sweden

Lauren Dyer Amazeen on Maria Hedlund

Michael Stevenson, The Fountain of Prosperity, 2006, Plexiglas, steel, brass, aluminum, rubber, cork, string, concrete, dyed water, pumps, and fluorescent lamps. Installation view.

Sydney

Jon Bywater on Michael Stevenson

Liu Wei, Merely a Mistake, 2010, door frames, wooden beams, acrylic paint, stainless steel, and aluminum, dimensions variable. Installation view.

Shanghai

Angie Baecker on Liu Wei

Inkie Whang, An Old BreezeGrass Roof 1, 2008, silicon and acrylic paint on canvas, 71 5/8 x 71 5/8".

Seoul

Shinyoung Chung on Inkie Whang