TABLE OF CONTENTS

April 2012

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Cover: Josephine Pryde, Scale I (detail), 2012, color photograph, 41 3/4 x 31 7/8". From the series “Scale,” 2012.

April 2012, Vol. 50, No. 8

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COLUMNS

PASSAGES

Anne M. Wagner on Helen Frankenthaler

Illustration from Persian poet Nizami’s “Haft Paykar” (Seven Beauties) (Shiraz, Persia, 1410–11).

BOOKS

David Roxburgh on Hans Belting’s Florence and Baghdad

Cristián Jiménez, Bonsái, 2011, still from a color film in 35 mm, 95 minutes. Julio (Diego Noguera).

FILM

Melissa Anderson on Cristián Jiménez’s Bonsái

Aerial view of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York, 2011. Photo: Joe Woolhead.

ON SITE

Graham Bader on absence as memorial

DOME, London, 1981. From left: Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis. Photo: The Douglas Brothers.

MUSIC

Alan Licht on DOME and Groovy Records

Cheryl Dunye, Mommy Is Coming, 2012, still from a color video, 65 minutes. Hans Eberhardt (Wieland Speck) and Helen Eberhardt (Maggie Tapert).

MEDIA

Julia Bryan-Wilson on Cheryl Dunye’s Mommy Is Coming

Ron Gilad, Platform + Border = Fruit Bowl (Part 1), 2000, wood, brass, 3 1/2 x 11 x 11".

DESIGN

Steven Watson on Ron Gilad

top ten

Hank Willis Thomas

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Institute of Critical Zoologists, Winner, 2009, 2011, color photograph, 47 5/8 x 33". From the series “The Great Pretenders,” 2011.

OPENINGS: ZHAO RENHUI

Jeffrey Kastner

Josephine Pryde, Scale XVI, 2012, color photograph, 41 3/4 x 31 7/8".

TEST SUBJECTS: THE ART OF JOSEPHINE PRYDE

Tom Holert

Stan Douglas, A Luta Continua, 1974, 2012, color photograph, 47 1/2 x 71 1/4". From the eight-part suite Disco Angola, 2012.

CLOSE-UP: REBEL MOVEMENT

Rachel Kushner on Stan Douglas’s Disco Angola

Jean-Luc Moulène, untitled, 1992, color photograph, 47 1/4 x 61". All works from the suite M. Chaudun’s Garden, 1991–2006, from the series “Fénautrigues,” 1991–2006.

ARTIST’S PORTFOLIO: M. CHAUDUN’S GARDEN

Jean-Luc Moulène

Digital rendering of a projection from Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway’s Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium, 2001/2004.

ART AFTER NATURE: THE POST-NATURAL CONDITION

T. J. Demos

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Paul Chan, Sade for Sade’s Sake, 2009, video projection, 345 minutes. Installation view.

Diedrich Diederichsen on “Before the Law”

Sid Grossman, Coney Island, ca. 1947, black-and-white photograph, 9 3/8 x 7 7/8".

J. Hoberman on “The Radical Camera”

Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency, Common Assembly, 2011–12, plywood, steel, aluminum, nylon cable, video. Installation view.

T. J. Demos on “Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency”

Mimmo Jodice, Church of San Marcellino, Naples, ca. 1977, black-and-white photograph, 9 x 14". From “Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography, 1950s–Present.”

New York

Zoe Strauss, Billboard 9: “Matt Tune,” Morgan City, LA, 2009, installed on Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, 2012.

Philadelphia

Nell McClister on Zoe Strauss

Balázs Kicsiny, Killing Time (detail), 2012, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Saint Louis

Ivy Cooper on Balázs Kicsiny

Sandy Skoglund, Pink Sink, 1977, ink-jet print, 16 x 16".

Denver

Kyle MacMillan on Sandy Skoglund

Dusty Madsen, Member’s Only, 2012, 1 Shot enamel on metal, 8 x 24". From “An American Language.”

San Francisco

Lisa Turvey on “An American Language”

Brian Bress, Creative Ideas for Every Season, 2010, still from a color HD video, 19 minutes 58 seconds.

Los Angeles

Liz Glynn, Kreutzberg Hoard, 2011, shopping cart armature, produce, gold leaf, acrylic, 36 x 12 x 10".

Claremont, CA

Catherine Taft on Liz Glynn

Renee So, Drunken Bellarmine, 2012, wool, acrylic, oak-tray frame, 68 1/2 x 48 7/8 x 2 3/8".

London

View of “Bill Bollinger,” 2011–12. Foreground: Pipe Piece, 1968–69. Background: Cyclone Fence, 1968/2011.

Edinburgh

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith on Bill Bollinger

View of “Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz,” 2011–12.

Paris

Marek Bartelik on Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

Joachim Koester, Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes, 2011, wood, black-and-white 16-mm film projection, 8 minutes 15 seconds. Installation view.

Villeurbanne, France

Guitemie Maldonado on Joachim Koester

Matthew Ronay, Double Cloak of Stars, 2009, cotton, nylon-waxed cord, fiber rush, plastic, walnut, papier-mâché, paint, plaster, cotton, gold leaf, 8' 5“ x 12' x 10”. From “Secret Societies.”

Bordeaux, France

Sinziana Ravini on “Secret Societies”

Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Das Loch (The Hole), 2010, still from a color video, 26 minutes.

Berlin

Chris Martin, Homage to Alfred and Bill #5, 1982–96, oil and felt on canvas, 15 x 12 1/4".

Düsseldorf

Sherman Sam on Chris Martin

View of “Annette Kelm and Michaela Meise,” 2011–12. From left: Michaela Meise, Observatory Crest, 2004; Annette Kelm, Magnolia #1, 2001; Michaela Meise, Iris, 2010.

Bonn

Noemi Smolik on Annette Kelm and Michaela Meise

Silvie Defraoui, La Diva del Pueblo Nuevo, 2009, color photograph, 12 1/2 x 15 1/2".

Zurich

Hans Rudolf Reust on Silvie Defraoui

Tomory Dodge, Sleepless, 2011, diptych, oil on canvas, overall 72 x 110 1/4".

Zuoz, Switzerland

Hans Rudolf Reust on Tomory Dodge

Luca Vitone, Natura morta con “Punt e Mes” (Still Life with Punt e Mes), 2012, plastic food, cloth, glasses, plates, Punt e Mes, water. Installation view. From “D’après Giorgio.”

Rome

Mario Codognato on “D’après Giorgio”

Mads Gamdrup, Noise, 2012, ink-jet print mounted on Diasec, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8". From the series “Noise,” 2008–.

Stockholm

Julie Cirelli on Mads Gamdrup

Martin Erik Andersen, Scaffolding (from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible CrownCivilization of Discontent), 2011, mixed media, 16' 5“ x 28' x 19' 8”.

Copenhagen

Lars Bang Larsen on Martin Erik Andersen

Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Untitled, 2012, shelf, Velcro, shoe-lace, four framed tapestries, 59 1/2 x 35 3/8 x 31 1/2".

Oslo

Johanne Nordby Wernø on Ann Cathrin November Høibo

Rob Birza, Shifting Systems III, 2011, egg tempera on canvas, 70 7/8 x 78 3/4".

Amsterdam

Hans den Hartog Jager on Rob Birza

Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Azor, 2012, compacted yacht, 15' 5“ x 14' 9” x 6' 2 3/4".

Madrid

Javier Hontoria on Fernando Sánchez Castillo

Pravdoliub Ivanov, Just Because, 2011, acrylic and lacquer on cardboard, 39 3/8 x 27 1/2".

Warsaw

Sylwia Serafinowicz on Pravdoliub Ivanov

Hong Hao, As It IsThe Writings of a Hundred I, 2011, pencil on found paper mounted on aluminum, framed with wood and acrylic, 47 1/4 x 76 3/4 x 2 3/4".

Beijing

Angie Baecker on Hong Hao