TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2013

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Cover: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone (detail), 1961, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 117 minutes.

January 2013, Vol. 51, No. 5

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COLUMNS

LETTERS

Technical Difficulties

BOOKS

Sarah Boxer on Deirdre Bair’s Saul Steinberg

Andy Warhol, San Diego Surf, 1968/1996, 16 mm, color, sound, 90 minutes. Unidentified surfer and Tom Hompertz.

FILM

Amy Taubin on Andy Warhol’s San Diego Surf

View of “Elad Lassry: Untitled (Presence),” 2012, The Kitchen, New York. Foreground: Untitled (Wall, New York), 2012. Background, from left: Woman 065, 2012; Woman 071, 2012; Man 077, 2012; Men (055, 065), 2012; Woman 084, 2012; Man 044, 2012; Woman 097, 2012; Woman 055, 2012. Photo: Jason Mandella.

PERFORMANCE

Douglas Crimp on Elad Lassry at The Kitchen

View of “Aldo Tambellini: Retracing Black,” 2012, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London. Photo: Lucy Dawkins.

ON SITE

Ina Blom on Aldo Tambellini at Tate Modern

Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti, Department of Islamic Art, Musée du Louvre, 2012, Paris. Photo: Philippe Ruault.

ON SITE

David J. Roxburgh on the Musée du Louvre’s galleries of Islamic art

Technical Difficulties

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker

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WINTER 2013 EXHIBITIONS: 45 shows worldwide

Saburō Murakami, Passing Through, 1956. Performance view, Ohara Kaikan, Tokyo, ca. October 11–17, 1956. From “2nd Gutai Art Exhibition,” 1956. Photo: Ōtsuji Kiyoji.

Focus Preview

“Gutai: Splendid Playground”

Albrecht Dürer, Left Wing of a Blue Roller, ca. 1500–12, watercolor and gouache on vellum, 7 3/4 x 7 7/8".

Vault

Albrecht Dürer

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Chris Marker, Description d’un combat (Description of a Struggle), 1960, 35 mm, color, sound, 58 minutes.

IN A FAR-OFF COUNTRY: CHRIS MARKER (1921–2012)

Postcard for Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company (Tapline), 1960. Found material for Rayyane Tabet’s series “The Shortest Distance Between Two Points,” 2007–.

OPENINGS: RAYYANE TABET

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Anicka Yi, I’m Every Woman I Ever Met (detail), 2011, vacuum-sealed peanuts and pearls, Plexiglas, 57 x 15 x 22".

OPENINGS: ANICKA YI

Beau Rutland

UNIVERSAL PICTURES: THE ART OF HILMA AF KLINT

Daniel Birnbaum

Still from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Decameron, 1971, 35 mm, color, sound, 111 minutes.

A CINEMA OF POETRY: THE FILMS OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

Patrick Rumble

Still from Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, 2012, digital video, color, sound, 156 minutes.

1000 WORDS: KATHRYN BIGELOW

Amy Taubin

Frances Stark, Push After “Pull After Push”, 2010, mixed media on panel, 69 x 89".

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS: THE ART OF FRANCES STARK

Mark Godfrey

Still from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, 1983, 16 mm transferred to 35 mm, color and black-and-white, sound, 103 minutes.

Sophie Fiennes

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme, Le Joli Mai (The Merry Month of May), 1963, 16 mm transferred to 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 165 minutes.

Patrick Keiller

Chris Marker, Lettre de Sibérie (Letter from Siberia), 1957, 16 mm transferred to 35 mm, color, sound, 62 minutes.

Lucy Raven

Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and Ghislain Cloquet, Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die), 1953, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 30 minutes.

Duncan Campbell

Chris Marker, Slon Tango, 1993, video, color, sound, 4 minutes 15 seconds.

Tom McCarthy

Photograph of Alexandra Stewart taken by Chris Marker circa 1964 during the shooting of Pierre Kast’s La Brûlure de mille soleils (The Burning of a Thousand Suns), 1965, as it appeared in Ouvroir, Marker’s virtual exhibition space, Second Life, 2008–12.

Alexandra Stewart

Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, 1983, 16 mm transferred to 35 mm, color and black-and-white, sound, 103 minutes.

James Quandt

Chris Marker, La Jetée, 1962, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 27 minutes. The Woman (Hélène Chatelain).

Nora M. Alter

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View of “Picasso Black and White,” 2012–13. Left: Le Baiser (The Kiss), 1969. Right: Le Baiser (The Kiss), 1969. Photo: David Heald.

Romy Golan on “Picasso Black and White”

View of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos,” 2012–13. Left, suspended: Günter Weseler, Objekt für Atemtraining (Object for Breathing Exercises), 1969. On table: Nine untitled and undated works by James Castle. Photo: Benoit Pailley.

Jordan Kantor on Rosemarie Trockel

Ni Haifeng, Para-production, 2008–12, textile shreds, sewing machines. Installation view, Waterschei Mine, Genk, Belgium, 2012. Photo: Kristof Vrancken.

Alexander Scrimgeour on Manifesta 9

Akram Zaatari, This Day, 2003, video, color, sound, 86 minutes. Installation view, 2012. Photo: Blaise Adilon.

Quinn Latimer on Akram Zaatari

Agnes Denes, Napoleonic Series II: Investigation of World RulersSome More Napoleons Overlooking the Elba, 1971, fingerprinting ink and colored ink on gr

Nick Stillman on Agnes Denes

View of “Goshka Macuga,” 2012. Foreground: Daybed for the Spirit of Polish Culture, 2012. Background: The Letter, 2012.

New York

Alice Channer, MAR108, 2012, cast pigmented polyurethane resin, 29 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 7".

NEW YORK

Dor Guez, Two Palestinian Riders, Ben Shemen Forest, 2011, Duratrans, light box, 37 1/4 x 118".

WALTHAM, MA

Nuit Banai on Dor Guez

Shelby Lee Adams, Hazel and Mimie, 2005, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16".

NEW ORLEANS

Nick Stillman on Shelby Lee Adams

Jimmy Robert, Untitled, 2010, ink-jet print, wood, 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 5".

CHICAGO

Daniel Quiles on Jimmy Robert

Ciprian Mureşan, Leap into the Void, After 3 Seconds, 2004, gelatin silver print, 39 3/8 x 25 3/8. From “Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art.”

SAN FRANCISCO

Elizabeth Mangini on “Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art”

Dave Muller, Little (Ed), 2012, acrylic on paper, 11 x 8 1/2".

LOS ANGELES

David Hall, TV Interruptions—works originally made for Scottish Television, 1971, 16 mm transferred to digital video, color, sound, 22 minutes 15 seconds. Installation view. From “Artist Placement Group.”

LONDON

Jesse Jones, Mahogany, 2009, 16 mm, color, sound, 35 minutes.

DUBLIN

Declan Long on Jesse Jones

Ryan Gander, Ampersand (detail), 2012, one element of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising a conveyor belt and sixty-five objects, dimensions variable.

PARIS

View of Bojan Šarčević, 2012. From left: She, 2010; Presence at Night, 2010; He, 2011.

VILLEURBANNE, FRANCE

Guitemie Maldonado on Bojan Šarčević

Vincent Fecteau, Untitled, 2011, gypsum cement, resin clay, acrylic paint, 16 x 24 x 23 5/8".

BERLIN

John Beeson on Vincent Fecteau

Natalie Czech, A hidden poem by Aram Saroyan, 2012, C-print, 16 3/4 x 21 5/8". From the series “Hidden Poems,” 2010–.

BERLIN

Heike-Karin Föll, Delphinium-Bouquet and Elaine Scarry, 2012, foam, plastic sheet, pack of Evian bottles, plastic bucket, water, wire, fresh delphiniums, 70 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 31 1/2".

BASEL

Quinn Latimer on Heike-Karin Föll

Keiichi Tanaami, ring and pole series B, 1980, wood, lacquer, 21 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 9 1/2".

ZURICH

Quinn Latimer on Keiichi Tanaami

Hans Haacke, Blue Sail, 1964–65, veil, fan, 11' 2“ x 10' 6”. From “Tapis volants” (Flying Carpets).

ROME

Riccardo Venturi on “Tapis volants”

Adeela Suleman, Prying in her richly decorated room I, 2012, embroidery on canvas, iron, paint, lamps, 89 1/2 x 78 3/4 x 33 1/2".

TURIN

Alessandra Pioselli on Adeela Suleman

Sudarshan Shetty, Untitled (from the show “the pieces earth took away”), 2012, hand-carved teak, acrylic, water pump, 12' x 11' 6 1/2“ x 11' 6 1/2”.

VIENNA

Sabine B. Vogel on Sudarshan Shetty

Füsun Onur, Variations (detail), 2012, paper clips and transparent adhesive on wall, dimensions variable.

ISTANBUL

Mine Haydaroğlu on Füsun Onur

Jordi Colomer, Prohibido Cantar/No Singing (Obra didáctica sobre la fundación de una ciudad paradisíacal) (Prohibido Cantar/No Singing [Didactic Work on the Foundation of a Paradise City]), (detail), 2012, still from the seven-channel video component of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising portable screens, speakers, wooden corridor, lights, and aluminum doors.

MADRID

José Pedro Croft, Untitled, 2012, wood, MDF, mirror, 7' 4 1/2“ x 16' 4 7/8” x 5' 1".

Lisbon

Filipa Oliveira on José Pedro Croft

View of “Jac Leirner,” 2012. Foreground: Hardware Seda (Hardware Silk), 2012. Background: Seis Níveis (Six Levels), 2012.

SÃO PAULO

Sérgio Martins on Jac Leirner

Dias & Riedweg, Peladas noturnas (Nocturnal Kickabouts), 2012, still from a three-channel HD video installation, color, sound, 3 minutes 57 seconds. From the series “Pequenas histórias de modestía e dúvida” (Small Stories of Modesty and Doubt), 2011–12.

RIO DE JANEIRO

Alexandre Melo on Dias & Riedweg