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January 2012

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Cover: Claes Oldenburg, Street Head I (“Big Head,” “Gong”), 1959, chicken wire, newspaper, glue, paint, 60 1/4 x 63 x 14".

January 2012, Vol. 50, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Robert Breer, Pat’s Birthday, 1962, stills from a black-and-white film in 16 mm, 13 minutes.

PASSAGES

Claes Oldenburg, Paul Kaiser, and Robert Whitman on Robert Breer

Jacques Derrida at home in Ris-Orangis, near Paris, January 6, 2001. Photo: Joel Robine/AFP/Getty Images.

BOOKS

Malcolm Bull on Jacques Derrida’s The Beast & The Sovereign

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Lothringen! (Lorraine!), 1994, still from a color film in 35 mm, 20 minutes.

FILM

Tony Pipolo on Jean-Marie Straub

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, 2011, still from a color film in 35 mm, 150 minutes.

FILM

Amy Taubin on Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Steve McQueen, Shame, 2011, stills from a color film in 35 mm, 101 minutes. Brandon (Michael Fassbender).

FILM

James Quandt on Steve McQueen’s Shame

Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin of the Rocks, ca. 1483–85, oil on wood transferred to canvas, 78 3/8 x 48".

VAULT

Martin Kemp on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin of the Rocks

Christopher D’Arcangelo’s 1977 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Journal project in a still from a video interview with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh conducted by Dean Inkster and Sébastien Pluot, 2010.

SLANT

Annie Ochmanek on Christopher D’Arcangelo

Occupy Wall Street protesters march down Broadway, New York, October 15, 2011. Photo: Hans Haacke.

SLANT

Saskia Sassen and Hans Haacke on the spaces of occupation

Qa’a (reception room), Damascus, Syria, 1707. Installation view, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011.

SLANT

Nasser Rabbat on the new Islamic art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

top ten

Uri Aran

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WINTER 2012 EXHIBITIONS: 45 shows worldwide

Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cone, 1962, polymer paint on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, 4' 5 3/4“ x 11' 4” x 4' 8".

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“Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties”

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Liu Wei, Merely a Mistake I (detail), 2010, oxhide, iron, cement, acrylic board, books, fiberglass netting, wood, oil painting. Installation view, Long March Space, Beijing.

DARK MATTER: THE ART OF LIU WEI

Pauline J. Yao

Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, 1956, collage on paper, 10 1/4 x 9 3/4".

JUST WHAT WAS IT . . . ?: THE ART OF RICHARD HAMILTON

Hal Foster

View of Preston Scott Cohen’s Herta and Paul Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2011. Photo: Amit Geron.

SURFACE ACTIVATION: THE AMIR BUILDING AT THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART

Sylvia Lavin

Sharon Lockhart, Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol, 2011, color film in 35 mm transferred to HD video, five-channel installation, continuous loop. Noga Goral, Mor Bashan, Ruti Sela, Or Gal-Or.

CLOSE-UP: MOVEMENT RESEARCH

Michael Ned Holte on Sharon Lockhart’s Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol

Adriana Varejão, Azulejaria “De tapete” em carne viva (“Carpet-Style” Tilework in Live Flesh), 1999, oil on canvas and polyurethane on aluminum and wooden support, 59 x 74 3/4 x 9 3/4".

FLUID DYNAMICS: THE ART OF ADRIANA VAREJÃO

Carol Armstrong

Christodoulos Panayiotou, Never Land (detail), 2008, three slide projectors, 135 color slides, dimensions variable.

OPENINGS: CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU

Aram Moshayedi

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View of “September 11,” 2011. Foreground: Christo, Red Package, 1968. Background, from left: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1991; Willem de Rooij, Index: Riots, Protest, Mourning and Commemoration (as represented in newspapers, January 2000–July 2002), 2003. Photo: Matthew Septimus.

Hal Foster on “September 11”

View of “Maurizio Cattelan: All,” 2011. Photo: David Heald.

Francesco Bonami on Maurizio Cattelan

“Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970–1990,” 2011.

Elizabeth Schambelan on “Postmodernism”

View of Printemps de Septembre, Musée les Abbattoirs, Toulouse. Walls, from left: Josh Smith, Untitled (Toulouse I), 2011; Pablo Picasso, La Dépouille du Minotaure en costume d’arlequin (The Remains of the Minotaur in Harlequin Costume), 1936; Josh Smith, Untitled (Toulouse II), 2011. Floor: Ei Arakawa, See Weeds, 2011.

Daniel Marcus on Printemps de Septembre

Karl Haendel and Petter Ringbom, Questions for My Father, 2011, still from a color video in HD, 11 minutes 17 seconds.

New York

Richmond, VA

Colin Lang on Xu Bing

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ni Totem, ni Tabou, 2011, digital print on PVC, 39 3/8 x 52".

Chicago

Michelle Grabner on Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

Nick Mauss, Concern, crush, desire (detail), 2011, cotton appliqué on velvet, brass door-knobs, door stoppers, 10' 11“ x 9' 7”.

Minneapolis

John McKinnon on Nick Mauss

Matt Borruso, Hide, 2011, cut-paper collage, 11 1/2 x 10".

San Fracisco

Gwen Allen on Matt Borruso

JEQU, BLEU (Mid), 2011, mixed media. Installation view.

Los Angeles

View of “Rebecca Warren,” 2011.

London

Thea Djordjadze, Other Echoes Inhabit the Void (detail), 2011, foam, plaster, paint, papier-mâché, stainless steel, steel, 36 x 20 x 19 5/8".

Glasgow

Steven Cairns on Thea Djordjadze

Neil Beloufa, Untitled, 2011, mixed media, 59 x 78 3/4 x 94 1/2".

Paris

Sergej Jensen, Untitled, 2011, pastel on canvas, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8".

Berlin

View of “Anna K.E.,” 2011.

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Anna K.E.

Fabio Marco Pirovino, ferrari 1913 (generic solution), 2011, Venetian stucco, chalk plaster, Ferrari lacquer, gypsum, 67 x 108 1/4".

Zurich

Quinn Latimer on Fabio Marco Pirovino

Massimo Bartolini, La strada di sotto (The Street Below) (detail), 2011, mixed media video installation, 20 minutes 30 seconds.

Milan

Marco Tagliafierro on Massimo Bartolini

Walter Pichler, Schlafender, Grundkonstruktion (Sleeper, Basic Construction), 2011, wood, glass, 11 3/8 x 13 3/8 x 37 3/8".

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Walter Pichler

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Poem In Nine Verses, 1966–68, aluminum, 11 3/8 x 8 5/8 x 2 3/4".

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Saloua Raouda Choucair

View of “Antonio Ballester Moreno,” 2011.

Madrid

Kalliopi Lemos, The Big Egg and the Hairy Goddesses, 2007–11, mild steel and two- way acrylic mirror; papier-mâché, animal hair, 13' 1 1/2“ x 8' 10 3/4” x 8' 10 3/4". Ibrahim Khan Mosque, Rethymno, Crete.

Athens/Rethymno, Crete/London

Cathryn Drake on Kalliopi Lemos

Kiyonori Kikutake, Marine City 1963, ca. 1985. Model. From “Metabolism: City in the Future.”

Tokyo

Midori Matsui on “Metabolism: City in the Future”

Chen Yufan and Chen Yujun, Mulan River Project, 2007–11, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable.

Beijing

Angie Baecker on Chen Yufan and Chen Yujun

View of “Little Movements,” 2011.

Shenzhen, China

Lee Ambrozy on “Little Movements”

Sebastián Gordín, Amanece en las trincheras (Dawn Breaks at the Trenches), 2011, diptych, wood, resin, each panel 13 x 33 7/8".

Buenos Aires

María Gainza on Sebastián Gordín