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Summer 2013

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Summer 2013, Vol. 51, No. 10

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Thomas McEvilley participating in Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present, 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 9, 2010. Photo: © 2010 Marco Anelli.

PASSAGES

Marina Abramović on Thomas McEvilley

Kwakiutl mask from British Columbia, n.d., painted wood, 13 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 4 1/4". From “‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.

PASSAGES

David Frankel on Thomas McEvilley

PASSAGES

Ed Ruscha on Richard Artschwager

PASSAGES

Steven Holl on Richard Artschwager

Chinua Achebe, London, May 21, 1970. Photo: Corbis.

PASSAGES

Okwui Enwezor on Chinua Achebe

BOOKS

Elizabeth Peyton

BOOKS

John Waters

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Thelma Golden

BOOKS

Greil Marcus

BOOKS

Diedrich Diederichsen

BOOKS

Ed Atkins

BOOKS

Jane Freilicher

Vivian Maier, Untitled (New York), 1954, gelatin silver print. From Vivian Maier: Street Photographer (powerHouse Books, 2011). © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection.

BOOKS

Vince Aletti on Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows

Installation in progress for Sarah Sze’s “Triple Point,” 2013, at the United States pavilion, Venice, for the 55th Venice Biennale, May 2013.

ON SITE

Rirkrit Tiravanija on Sarah Sze about the US pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale

Stephen Prina, As He Remembered It, 2011, acrylic enamel on polyurethane on plywood, linen, metal. Installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013. Photo: Brant Brogan.

ON SITE

Alex Kitnick on Stephen Prina at LACMA

View of “Spectacle: The Music Video,” 2013, Museum of the Moving Image, New York. “Agent Provocateur” section. Photo: Eric Harvey Brown.

MEDIA

Johanna Fateman on “Spectacle: The Music Video”

Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, 2012, HD video, color, sound, 116 minutes. Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, and dancers. Image: Drafthouse Films.

FILM

James Quandt on Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing

Ulrich Seidl, Paradise: Love, 2012, 35 mm, color, sound, 120 minutes. Beach Boy (Gabriel Nguma Mwarua) and Teresa (Margarethe Tiesel).

FILM

Mattias Frey on Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy

Matías Piñeiro, Viola, 2012, HD video, color, sound, 65 minutes. Photo: Cinema Guild

FILM

Dennis Lim on Matías Piñeiro’s Viola

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Sadie Benning

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CARL ANDRE: POEMS

Gavin Delahunty, introduction

Pavel Büchler, Modern Paintings No. A47 (blue and red abstract, Manchester, August 2007), 1997–2007, reclaimed paint on canvas, 30 x 26 3/4". From “The Confidence Man,” 2011, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.

2011: ART AND TRANSMISSION

Michael Sanchez

Illustration from Here Is a Foretaste of Tomorrow, promotional pamphlet for General Motors’ Futurama II, World’s Fair Pavilion, New York, 1964–65.

THE NOW FUTURISM AND THE THEN ZEITGEIST: MIKE KUCHAR’S SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS (1965)

J. Hoberman

Stewart Uoo, Hayley Pisaturo, and Marie Karlberg at Xtapussy LIXXXTAPUSSY party, New York, January 26, 2013.

1000 WORDS: ANTONIO BLAIR, MARIE KARLBERG, AND STEWART UOO

Michelle Kuo

Eric Owen Moss Architects, Beehive, 2001, Culver City, CA. Photo: Tom Bonner.

CITY OF DUST: ARCHITECTURE AND SUBNATURE IN LOS ANGELES

David Gissen

Saul Leiter, String,ca. 1955, gelatin silver print, 9 3.4 x 9 3/4".

SAUL LEITER: A PORTFOLIO

Michael Almereyda, introduction

Michael Rakowitz, May the Arrogant Not Prevail (detail), 2010, found Arabic packaging and newspapers, glue, cardboard, wood, 19' 7 3/4“ x 16' 2 7/8” x 3' 1 3/8".

OBJECT TO BE RESTORED: THE ART OF MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

Dieter Roelstraete

Alistair Frost, Out of Office Auto Reply, 2012, acrylic on linen, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2".

OPENINGS: ALISTAIR FROST

Martin Herbert

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Briony Fer on “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925”

View of “Eileen Gray” 2013. Transat armchairs, from left: 1926–29, 1926–30, 1930. Photo: Hervé Véronese.

Maria Stavrinaki on Eileen Gray

Martin Kippenberger, Korrekte Syntax (Correct Syntax) (detail), 1987, wood, silk-screen print on Plexiglas, stickers, filing-card holder, 48 7/8 x 11 x 18 7/8". From the series “Peter-Skulpturen” (Peter Sculptures), 1987. All works © Estate Martin Kippenberger. Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.

Isabelle Graw on Martin Kippenberger

Garry Winogrand, Los Angeles, ca. 1980–83, gelatin silver print, 8 3/4 x 13 1/2". © The Estate of Garry Winogrand. Garry Winogrand Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.

Joseph McElroy on Garry Winogrand

View of “Mark Leckey: The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things,” 2013. Photo: Andy Keate.

Alexander Scrimgeour on Mark Leckey

Justin Matherly, Handbook of inner culture for external barbarians (we nah beg no friend), 2013, concrete, ambulatory equipment, 10' 1“ x 24' 7” x 3' 9".

New York

View of “Barry McGee,” 2013.

Boston

Nuit Banai on Barry McGee

Stephen Collier, Untitled, 2013, oil, acrylic, enamel, photocopy, Sheetrock, plywood, 60 x 40".

lafayette, la

Nick Stillman on Stephen Collier

James Welling, Waterfall, 1981, gelatin silver print, 18 x 14".

Cincinnati

Matthew Biro on James Welling

Georges Braque, The Round Table, 1929, oil, sand, and charcoal on canvas, 57 3/8 x 44 3/4". © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

Saint LOUIS

Daniel Marcus on “Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945”

David Hartt, Mutirão III, 2013, USM Haller table, nine hand-blown glass sculptures, magazine, neon sign, 41 1/4 x 70 x 59".

CHICAGO

Daniel Quiles on David Hartt

View of “Dan Finsel,” 2013.

Los Angeles

View of “Friedrich Kuhn,” 2013. From left: Untitled, 1969; Untitled, 1969; Palm Tree, 1969.

London

Sylvia Sleigh, David Bourdon, 1969, oil on canvas, 30 x 21".

Liverpool, UK

Sherman Sam on Sylvia Sleigh

Raqib Shaw, After George Stubbs “Cheetah and Stag with Two Indians”, 2013, oil on canvas, 72 x 108 3/8".

Manchester, UK

Zehra Jumabhoy on Raqib Shaw

Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, roca | azul | jacinto | marino | errante (rock | blue | hyacinth | navy | errant), 2013, concrete tiles, dye,volcanic rocks, 12 5/8 x 78 3/4 x 118 1/8".

Paris

Mara Hoberman on Julia Rometti and Victor Costales

Marlie Mul, Puddle (Green Tracks), 2013, sand, stones, resin, 3/8 x 33 1/2 x 35 1/2".

Vienna

Erina Matsui, Nightmare Before New Year, 2013, oil on canvas, wire, 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 3/4".

Berlin

Jens Asthoff on Erina Matsui

Carlo Benvenuto, Untitled, 2013, C-print, 72 3/4 x 63".

Milan

Alessandra Pioselli on Carlo Benvenuto

View of “Rudolf Stingel,” 2013. Rug: Untitled, 2013. On wall: Untitled (Franz West), 2011.

Venice

Marco Tagliafierro on Rudolf Stingel

Armando Andrade Tudela, UNSCH/Pikimachay, 2012, 16-mm film transferred to digital video, color, silent, 11 minutes 26 seconds.

Madrid

Javier Hontoria on Armando Andrade Tudela

Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Matrasdrager (The Mattress Porter), 2001, concrete, foam rubber, 82 5/8 x 42 1/8 x 70 7/8".

Ostend , Belgium

Jos Van den Bergh on Philip Aguirre y Otegui

Rui Chafes, Tranquila ferida do sim, faca do não (Quiet Wound of the Yes, Knife of the No), 2000–13, iron, light projectors, each element 118 1/8 x 10 5/8 x 30 3/4", overall dimensions variable.

Lisbon

Filipa Oliveira on Rui Chafes

View of “Lukáš Machalický,” 2013. Levels: Untitled, 2013. Tables: Untitled, 2013. From the series “Raut” (Reception) 2013–.

Liberec, Czech Republic

Markéta Stará on Lukáš Machalický

Eric Baudelaire, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images, 2011, HD video and Super 8 transferred to HD video, color and black-and-white, sound, 66 minutes.

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Eric Baudelaire

Jonas Staal, Monument to Capital—Part II. Historicizing the Future: A Proposal, 2013, light box, 12 3/8 x 24 1/4 x 1 3/8"; audio component, 3 minutes 58 seconds.

Dubai

Kate Sutton on Jonas Staal

Steeve Bauras, 3K, 2013, mixed media installation with performance. From “Cyclicités,” 2013.

Dakar, Senegal

Cathryn Drake on “Cyclicités”

assume vivid astro focus, Transgeométricas (Transgeometrics) (detail), 2013, paint marker, automotive paint, 68 x 48 1/2 x 7".

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on assume vivid astro focus

Laercio Redondo, Carmen Miranda—Uma ópera da imagem (Carmen Miranda—An Opera of the Image) (detail), 2010, sound, mobiles, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Rio de Janeiro

Kaira M. Cabañas on Laercio Redondo

Gimhongsok, Mr. Kim, 2012, resin, pants, sneakers, 69 5/8 x 49 1/4 x 18 1/8".

Seoul

Jung-Ah Woo on Gimhongsok

Almagul Menlibayeva, Kurchatov 22, 2012, five-channel HD video projection, color, sound, 26 minutes. From the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.

Brisbane

Anthony Byrt on The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art