TABLE OF CONTENTS

November 2012

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Cover: David Weiss, untitled (detail), 1977, ink on paper, 6 7/8 x 4 3/8". From the sketchbook “Frauen” (Women), 1977.

November 2012, Vol. 51, No. 3

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COLUMNS

PASSAGES

Billy Al Bengston on Ken Price

Franz West, Wegener Räume 2/6–5/6, 1988, metal, wood, papier- mâché, gauze, paint, plaster, collage. Installation view, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna.

PASSAGES

Peter Pakesch, Chris Dercon, David Hammons, and Alison M. Gingeras on Franz West

Brad Cloepfil with Allied Works Architecture, Clyfford Still Museum, 2011, Denver. Photo: Jeremy Bittermann.

ON SITE

Harry Cooper on the Clyfford Still Museum

Quentin Meillassoux presenting The Number and the Siren: A Decipherment of Mallarmé’s “Coup de dés,” Sequence Press, New York, May 6, 2012.

BOOKS

Jeff Nagy on Quentin Meillassoux’s The Number and the Siren

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants performing a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1942.

BOOKS

Prudence Peiffer on Ellen Levy’s Criminal Ingenuity

Michael Haneke, Amour, 2012, 35 mm, color, sound, 127 minutes. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva).

FILM

James Quandt on Michael Haneke’s Amour

“Robert Johnson at 100” tribute concert, Apollo Theater, New York, March 6, 2012. Photo: Chang W. Lee/New York Times/Redux.

MUSIC

Greil Marcus on Robert Johnson

En.wikipedia.org, January 18, 2012.

MEDIA

Jakob Schillinger on digital labor

top ten

Jonathan Horowitz

The Titian Room, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 2007. From left: Paris Bordone, Virgin Enthroned with the Child and the Saints, 1535; Paris Bordone, Two Chess Players, ca. 1540; Titian, Girl with a Platter of Fruit, ca. 1555; Titian, Venus with the Organ Player, ca. 1551. Photo: Christoph Schmidt.

SLANT

Benjamin Paul on the Gemäldegalerie

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Robert Frank, Cocksucker Blues, 1972, 16 mm, color and black- and-white, sound, 93 minutes. Mick Jagger. Photo: Photofest.

IT’S ONLY ROCK ’N’ ROLL: THE ROLLING STONES IN FILM

David E. James

Mateo López, Manzana (Apple) (detail), 2011, wood, paper, ink, apple seeds and stem, 26 3/4 x 13 x 12 1/4".

OPENINGS: MATEO LÓPEZ

Apsara DiQuinzio

Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, Anna, 1975, video transferred to 16 mm, black-and-white, sound, 225 minutes. Photo: Cineteca Nazionale/Cineteca di Bologna/Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi

WOMAN IN REVOLT: ALBERTO GRIFI AND MASSIMO SARCHIELLI’S ANNA

Rachel Kushner

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Le Menu de maigre (The Fast-Day Menu), 1731, oil on copper, 13 x 16 1/8".

CLOSE-UP: FRAMED

James Quandt on Robert Bresson’s L’Argent (1983)

Aleksandr Deineka, The Ball Game, 1932, oil on canvas, 49 x 49"

COLLECTIVE BODY: THE ART OF ALEKSANDR DEINEKA

Christina Kiaer

Jana Euler, Ruth Suckale, 2009, oil on canvas, 44 7/8 x 36 5/8".

SOCIAL REALISM: THE ART OF JANA EULER

Isabelle Graw

David Weiss and Urs Lüthi, untitled, 1970, offset print, 15 5/8 x 10 3/4". From the series “Sketches,” 1970. Photo: Willy Spiller.

A CULTIVATED POISE: PORTFOLIO IN MEMORY OF DAVID WEISS

Selected by Peter Fischli Introduction by Bice Curiger

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Roberto Fabelo Hung, Aire fresco (Fresh Air), 2011, mixed media. Installation view, Malecón, 2012. Photo: Pamela M. Lee.

Pamela M. Lee on the 11th Havana Biennial

View of “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,” 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Foreground: Alice Aycock, Clay #2, 1971/2012. Photo: Brian Forrest.

Julia Bryan-Wilson on “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974”

View of “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World,” 2012, El Museo del Barrio, New York. Photo: Jason Mandella.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World”

Paul Pfeiffer, Playroom, 2012, steel, glass one-way mirror, wood, MDF, fabric, upholstery, lights, 62 1/4 x 72 x 30".

New York

Derrick Adams, In the House, 2010, digital C-print, 36 x 30".

Boston

Gregory Williams on Derrick Adams

Aaron McNamee, Complete Year Times–Picayune (August 3, 2010–August 2, 2011), 2011*, newspaper, glue, twelve panels, each 66 x 9 x 1 1/2". From the series “Complete Year Times-Picayune,” 2009–12.

New Orleans

Nick Stillman on Aaron McNamee

Gretchen Bender, Total Recall, 1987, eight-channel video on twenty-four monitors and two rear-projection screens, sound, 18 minutes 2 seconds. Installation view.

Little Wolf, WI

Solveig Nelson on Gretchen Bender

Amelie von Wulffen, Untitled, 2012, oil on canvas, 19 5/8 x 15 3/5".

Aspen, CO

Catherine Taft on Amelie von Wulffen

Mickalene Thomas, Landscape with Tree, 2012, rhinestones, acrylic, oil, and enamel on wood panel, 100 x 90 x 2".

Los Angeles

Sara Barker, Draft overlapped, 2012, oil paint, canvas, steel, brass, aluminum, metal filler, glass, 40 1/8 x 24 3/8 x 18 1/8".

London

John-Paul Stonard on Sara Barker

Hariton Pushwagner, Jobkill, 1990, acrylic and ink on paper, 67 1/2 x 107". From the series “Apocalypse Frieze,” 1973–93.

Milton Keynes, UK

Sherman Sam on Hariton Pushwagner

Sarnath Banerjee, Censorship (detail), 2009, silk screen on paper, twenty-four segments, each 8 x 8".

Glasgow

Lauren Dyer Amazeen on Sarnath Banerjee

Dominique Figarella, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on aluminum, 86 5/8 x 118 x 5/8".

Paris

Vadim Fiškin, Don Quixote Pact, 2010–12, wind turbine generator, electric fans, fiberglass, 7' 5/8“ x 13' 1 1/2” x 7' 6 1/2".

Berlin

Astrid Mania on Vadim Fiškin

Kaucyila Brooke, Spirals, 2012, photomontage, 42 x 30". From the series “Can We Talk?, Tit for Twat,” 1993–.

Karlsruhe, Germany

Klaus Lutz, Vulcan, 2004, 16-mm film, projector, balloon, salad strainer, music stand, sound, 2 minutes. Installation view.

Zurich

Marek Bartelik on Klaus Lutz

View of “Alex Hanimann,” 2012.

Geneva

Hans Rudolf Reust on Alex Hanimann

Petrit Halilaj, It is the first time dear, that you have a human shape (detail), 2012, steel, stones, dimensions variable.

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Marco Tagliafierro on Petrit Halilaj

Fabio Mauri, Ideologia e Natura (Ideology and Nature), 1973, photosensitive canvas, 106 1/4 x 80 3/4".

Milan

Marco Meneguzzo on Fabio Mauri

View of “The Small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata,” 2012.

Venice

Pier Paolo Pancotto on “The Small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata”

View of “Elena Asins,” 2012. Foreground: Menhir I-XL, 1995. Wall: La rotación del menhir (Menhir Rotation), 1999.

San Sebastian, Spain

Javier Hontoria on Elena Asins

António Palolo, Drawings/Lines, 1971, Super 8 film transferred to DVD, color, silent, 10 minutes 8 seconds.

Lisbon

Filipa Oliveira on António Palolo

Peter Robinson, Gravitas Lite, 2012, polystyrene, dimensions variable. From the 18th Biennale of Sydney.

Sydney

Anthony Byrt on 18th Biennale of Sydney

View of “Theatre of the World,” 2012. Top: Max Ernst, L’imbécile (Imbecile), 1961. Bottom: Altar in the form of a bird-headed deity, Golan Heights, Syria, Chalcolithic, fourth millennium BC.

Hobart, Australia

Adam Jasper on “Theatre of the World”

Marcia de Moraes, O Alagamento (The Flood), 2012, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 70 7/8 x 86 5/8".

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Marcia de Moraes