TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2012

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Cover: Mike Kelley, Liberal Paganism, 1995, acrylic on board, 63 3/4 x 46 7/8".

May 2012, Vol. 50, No. 9

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COLUMNS

From left: Cover of Eh! #4 (June 1954). Artist unknown. Cover of Madhouse #4 (September/October 1954). Iger Studio. Cover of Whack #3 (May 1954). Norman Maurer.

BOOKS

J. Hoberman on Mad magazine’s early imitators

Grant Gee, Patience (After Sebald), 2011, stills from a black-and-white and color HD video, 82 minutes.

FILM

Michael Wood on Grant Gee’s Patience (After Sebald)

A selection from Documenta 13’s 100 Notes100 Thoughts publication series (Hatje Cantz, 2011–12). Photo: Dirk Schwarz.

NEWS

Elizabeth Schambelan on talks with curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev about Documenta 13

Forrest Bess, Untitled (No. 12 A), 1957, oil on canvas, 12 x 18".

SLANT

Ken Okiishi on Forrest Bess

View of “Arte Povera più azioni povere 1968” (Poor Art Plus Poor Actions 1968), 2011–12, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples. From left: Giuseppe Penone, Soffio di creta (Breath of Clay), 1978; Pino Pascali, Bachi da setola (Bristle Worms), 1968; Mario Merz, Lance (Spears), 1966. Photo: Nicola Baraglia.

SLANT

Elizabeth Mangini on Arte Povera in Naples

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Adriana Lara

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Roy Lichtenstein, Perfect Painting, 1986, oil and Magna on canvas, 70 3/8 x 100 1/8". © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.

Focus Preview

“Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective”

Summer Exhibitions

45 shows worldwide

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Mike Kelley, Joseph Supplicates (detail), 2004–2005, mixed media with video projection, 8' 8“ x 8' 8” x 17' 6".

IMAGE OF THE PEOPLE: MIKE KELLEY (1954–2012)

Mike Kelley, Catholic Birdhouse (detail), 1978, two parts, house: painted wood, composite shingles, 22 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2“; title drawing: ink on paper, 9 1/2 x 6”.

Ann Goldstein

Snapshot taken by Mike Kelley on the set of The Gong Show, ca. 1976.

Michael Smith

Members of The Poetics, Los Angeles, 1977. Photo: Jim Shaw. From left: John Arnheim, Bill Stobaugh, Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, John Miller.

Tony Oursler

Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media Engram Abreaction Release Zone, 1992, still from a color video, 62 minutes 40 seconds.

Paul McCarthy

Mike Kelley, Untitled, 1975, two-color etching with aquatint, 18 x 23 1/2".

Jim Shaw

Mike Kelley and Kim Gordon, Los Angeles, August 1985. Photo: John Harnois.

Kim Gordon

Werner Schroeter, Der Tod der Maria Malibran (The Death of Maria Malibran), 1972, still from a color film in 16 mm, 104 minutes. Singer (Anette Tirier) and Maria Malibran (Magdalena Montezuma).

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: THE FILMS OF WERNER SCHROETER

James Quandt

Ming Wong, Making Chinatown, 2012, still from the seven-channel color video component of a mixed-media installation, running time variable.

FALSE FRONT: THE ART OF MING WONG

Joan Kee

Wu Tsang, Wildness, 2012, still from a color video, 72 minutes.

A ROOM OF THEIR OWN: THREE VIEWS ON THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL

View of “Whitney Biennial 2012,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2012. From left: Richard Hawkins, Ankoku 10 (Index Labyrinth), 2012; Richard Hawkins, Ankoku 9 (Index World of Flower), 2012; Richard Hawkins, Ankoku 1 (Introduction), 2012; Kai Althoff, Untitled, 2012; Kai Althoff, Untitled, 2011; Kai Althoff, Untitled, 2011; K8 Hardy, #1–#7, 2011; K8 Hardy, Appurtenance A-1, 2011. Photo: Sheldan Collins.

David Rimanelli

Charles Atlas, Ocean, 2011, still from a color HD video, 100 minutes. Emma Desjardins and Silas Riener.

Amy Taubin

Sarah Michelson, Devotion Study #1The American Dancer, 2012. Performance view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 26, 2012. Nicole Mannarino. Photo: Paula Court.

David Velasco

Kraftwerk performing as part of “Kraftwerk–Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 10, 2012. Photo: Peter Boettcher.

1000 WORDS: KRAFTWERK

Michelle Kuo

Anja Kirschner and David Panos, He Doesn’t Know You Don’t Love Him, 2011, stills from a two-channel color video, 33 minutes. From the installation Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, 2011.

AFTER EFFECTS: THE ART OF ANJA KIRSCHNER AND DAVID PANOS

Martin Herbert

Dave Miko, untitled, 2011–12, ink on aluminum, 23 x 23".

OPENINGS: DAVE MIKO

Sam Pulitzer

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View of “Cindy Sherman,” 2012. Photo: Thomas Griesel.

Thomas Crow on Cindy Sherman

View of “The Ungovernables,” 2012. From left: Amalia Pica, Venn Diagrams (under the spotlight), 2011; Jonathas de Andrade, Ressaca Tropical (Tropical Hangover), 2009. Photo: Benoit Pailley.

Suzanne Cotter on “The Ungovernables”

Julian Schnabel, Ornamental Despair (Painting for Ian Curtis), 1980, oil on velvet, 7' 6 1/8“ x 14' 1/2”.

Adam Szymczyk on “The Old, the New, the Different”

Jeremy Deller, Open Bedroom, 1993, mixed media. Installation view, 2012. Photo: Linda Nylind.

T. J. Demos on Jeremy Deller

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Two Planets: Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass and the Thai Villagers, 2008, still from a color video, 16 minutes.

New York

Josh Mannis, Zeal for the Law, 2012, still from a color HD video, 7 minutes 56 seconds.

Boston

Nuit Banai on Josh Mannis

Sophie T. Lvoff, Purple Rain, 2011, color ink-jet print, 47 1/2 x 40 1/2". From “Spaces: Antenna, the Front, Good Children Gallery.”

New Orleans

Nick Stillman on “Spaces: Antenna, the Front, Good Children Gallery”

Marcel Broodthaers, Portrait of Maria Gilissen with Tripod, 1967, gelatin silver emulsion on canvas with tripod, approx. 66 x 43 x 24". From “Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977.”

Chicago

Barry Schwabsky on “Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977”

Mitchell Syrop, Bifurcated Life (detail), 2011, twenty-eight framed color ink-jet prints, each 22 x 15 1/2".

Los Angeles

Babak Golkar, Grounds for Standing and Understanding (detail), 2012, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Vancouver

Gareth James on Babak Golkar

Rosa Loy, Balance, 2011, colored pencil, pencil, and watercolor on paper, 12 1/4 x 9".

London

View of “Steven Claydon,” 2012.

Colchester

Steven Cairns on Steven Claydon

View of “Pia Rönicke,” 2012.

Paris

FORT, Lou, 2012, color HD video projection (19 minutes 15 seconds), electric vertical jalousie in carpeted room, twenty handmade one-legged stools, light sign, musical intermission score. Installation view.

Berlin

John Beeson on FORT

Björn Dahlem, Sonnen (Suns), 2011, glass, wood, Styrofoam, steel, lemon, velvet ball, lacquer, shellac, 27 1/2 x 59 x 19 5/8".

Munich

Daniela Stöppel on Björn Dahlem

View of “Oscar Tuazon,” 2012.

Zurich

Latifa Echakhch, Enluminure (Illumination) (detail), 2012, ink on inside of windows, dimensions variable.

Milan

Luigi Ghirri, mock-up of a work from the series “Atlante” (Atlas), 1973, wood box, photograph with passe-partout, 12 5/8 x 15 x 2 1/4“ and 11 3/4 x 13 3/4”, respectively.

Turin, Italy

Alessandra Pioselli on Luigi Ghirri

Jeroen Eisinga, Springtime, 2010–11, still from a black-and-white film in 35 mm transferred to HD video, 19 minutes 5 seconds.

Schiedam, The Netherlands

Saskia van der Kroef on Jeroen Eisinga

Nuno da Luz, The Conquest of Nature, 2010, photocopy, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4".

Lisbon

Filipa Oliveira on Nuno da Luz

Fuyuko Matsui, Keeping Up the Pureness, 2004, pulverized stone powder on silk, wooden scroll, 11 5/8 x 31 1/4".

Yokohama

Midori Matsui on Fuyuko Matsui

Will Kwan, Untitled (Art | UN), 2011, self-adhesive vinyl, 57 7/8 x 26 3/8".

Hong Kong

Ronald Jones on Will Kwan

Gyan Panchal, wedhneumi, 2012, palm tree bark, paint, paper, 80 x 19 5/8 x 9 1/2".

Mumbai

Zehra Jumabhoy on Gyan Panchal

Sriwhana Spong, Whether standing or sitting or lying or in some other position in the dark, 2011, still from a color HD video, 9 minutes 21 seconds. From “Prospect: New Zealand Art Now.”

Wellington

Anthony Byrt on “Prospect: New Zealand Art Now”

Alicia Frankovich, Volution, 2011, still from a color film in 35 mm transferred to HD video, 2 minutes 41 seconds.

Auckland

Jon Bywater on Alicia Frankovich