TABLE OF CONTENTS

October 2013

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October 2013, Vol. 52, No. 2

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COLUMNS

Otto Mühl (center front) with Action Analytical commune members, Friedrichshof, Austria, 1974.

PASSAGES

Malcolm Green on Otto Mühl

Otto Mühl, Nahrungsmitteltest, Materialaktion No. 26 (Food Test, Material Action No. 26), 1966. Performance view, Perinetkeller, Vienna, February 1966. Anni Brus and Ziemi Schieb. Photo: Ludwig Hoffenreich. © KH Hein.

PASSAGES

Hermann Nitsch on Otto Mühl

Ron Rice, The Flower Thief, 1960, 16 mm, black-and-white, sound, 70 minutes. Flower Thief (Taylor Mead). Photo: Anthology Film Archives.

PASSAGES

Marc Siegel on Taylor Mead

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling (detail), 1508–12, plaster fresco, gold, 133 x 46'.

BOOKS

Leland de la Durantaye on Peter Osborne’s Anywhere or Not at All

Alain Guiraudie, L’Inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake), 2013, 35 mm, color, sound, 97 minutes. Michel (Christophe Paou) and Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps).

FILM

James Quandt on Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake

Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue Is the Warmest Color, 2013, digital video, color, sound, 179 minutes. Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Emma (Léa Seydoux).

FILM

Melissa Anderson on Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color

Paul McCarthy, WS, 2013, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: James Ewing.

ON SITE

Glenn O’Brien on Paul McCarthy’s WS at the Park Avenue Armory

Paul McCarthy, WS, 2013, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: James Ewing.

ON SITE

Laura Owens on Paul McCarthy’s WS at the Park Avenue Armory

View of Manchester International Festival, Mayfield Depot, Manchester, UK, 2013.

PERFORMANCE

Claire Bishop on the Manchester International Festival

Still from webcams accessed through Shodan (shodanhq.com), 2013.

MEDIA

Finn Brunton on Shodan

top ten

Bernadette Mayer

Cover of Artforum 21, no. 5 (January 1983). Barry Le Va, During (Between Imagination and Actuality) (detail), 1982.

BACK ISSUES

Matthew Higgs on Artforum, January 1983

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Theaster Gates, Civil Tapestry, Flag Series, 2012, decommissioned fire hoses, wood, 66 x 84 x 4 1/2". From the series “Civil Tapestries,” 2011–.

DARK MIRRORS: THEASTER GATES AND EBONY

Huey Copeland

Louise Lawler, Pollyanna (traced), 2007/2008/2013.

A PORTFOLIO (TRACED)

Louise Lawler

Ralston Farina in front of the shopwindow display for his performance Look Puzzle Phase 3, 1973, 126 Prince Street, New York, March 23, 1973. Photo: Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images. Dennis Hermanson/ Ralston Farina Archives.

I REMEMBER RALSTON: THE ART OF RALSTON FARINA

J. Hoberman

Piero Manzoni signing a model during the making of a short film for Filmgiornale SEDI, Milan, 1961. © Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milan.

PARDON MY FRENCH

Thierry de Duve on the invention of art

Erin Shirreff, Medardo Rosso, Madame X, 1896, 2013, digital video, color, silent, 24 minutes. Installation view.

CLOSE UP: THE ABSENT OBJECT

Jeffrey Weiss on Erin Shirreff’s Medardo Rosso, Madame X, 1896, 2013

Still from John Akomfrah’s The Unfinished Conversation, 2012, three-channel digital video, color and black-and-white, sound, 46 minutes. Center: Stuart Hall.

1000 WORDS: JOHN AKOMFRAH

T. J. Demos

Image provided by Hassan Khan.

TRUSTED SOURCES

A project by Hassan Khan

Bruce Conner, Crossroads, 1976, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 37 minutes. Still from the 2013 digital remastering.

CONSERVATION AT A CROSSROADS: THE RESTORATION OF A FILM BY BRUCE CONNER

Ross Lipman

Anne Imhof, Aqua Leo, 1st of at least two, 2013. seventy-one digital slides, color, sound, 52 minutes 12 seconds. From left: Neila Bin Mohahmed Hadj Yahia, Erika Landström, Carolina Cortese, Eva Kruijssen, Olga Pedan, Anne Imhof. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski.

OPENINGS: ANNE IMHOF

Victoria Camblin

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View of “Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective,” 2013, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Foreground, from left: Little D, 2011; Ordell, 2011–12;Venus, 2000.

Prudence Peiffer on Ken Price

View of “Urs Fischer,” 2013. Foreground: Untitled (Suspended Line of Fruit), 2012; Frozen Pioneer, 2009; Untitled (Floor Piece), 2006; Portrait of a Single Raindrop, 2003. Background: Horses Dream of Horses, 2004; Frozen, 1998; Untitled (Bread House), 2004–2005.

Jan Tumlir on Urs Fischer

Caspar David Friedrich, Die Kathedrale (Cathedral), ca. 1818, 60 x 27 3/4".

Eric Michaud and Maria Stavrinaki on “De l’Allemagne, 1800–1939”

View of “Giorgio Morandi: Retrospective,” 2013, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. From left: Fiori (Flowers), 1957; Fiori (Flowers), 1947; Fiori (Flowers), 1947; Fiori (Flowers), 1950. Photo: Philippe De Gobert.

Barry Schwabsky on Giorgio Morandi

Philip Taaffe, Imaginary Landscape I, 2013, mixed media on canvas, 37 1/2 x 37 5/8".

New York

Alice Aycock, Project Entitled “The City of the Walls: A Narrow City, a Thin City . . .”, 1978, pencil on vellum, 42 x 72 1/2".

New York/Water Mill, NY

Daniel Quiles on Alice Aycock

Katherine Bradford, Titanic Orange Sea, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 10".

Brunswick, ME

Nick Stillman on Katherine Bradford

View of “Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance,” 2013. From left: Bass Traps with False Tones A & B, 2013; Score for Six Measures with Subtone, 2013.

Washington, DC

Ian Bourland on Jennie C. Jones

Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead (detail), 2010–. Installation view, 4454 Woodward Avenue, Detroit.

Detroit

Matthew Biro on Mike Kelley

Lari Pittman, Grand Tour, 2011, acrylic, Cel-Vinyl, and aerosol lacquer on gessoed canvas over wood panel, 102 x 88".

Saint Louis

Ivy Cooper on Lari Pittman

Barry Le Va, Diagrammatic Silhouettes: Sculptured Activities (Black Stress), 1987, ink on paper collage, 80 x 80".

Los Angeles

Philip Akkerman, Self-Portrait: 2012, No. 155, tempera and oil paint on Masonite, 51 x 47 1/4".

London

View of “Joëlle de La Casinière,” 2013.

Paris

Lillian Davies on Joëlle de La Casinière

Ange Leccia, Logical Song (detail), 2013, video, color, sound, 32 minutes.

Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Riccardo Venturi on Ange Leccia

Nicola Martini, Sippe, 2013, interior space coated in photosensitive asphalt/bitumen. Installation view.

Milan

Marco Tagliafierro on Nicola Martini

gelatin, Loch (Hole), 2013, mixed media. Installation view.

Vienna

Brent Wadden, Alignment #21, 2013, hand-woven fibers (wool and cotton) and acrylic on canvas, 80 3/4 x 72 3/4".

Berlin

Felix Schramm, Accumulator 1, 2011–12, drywall, wood, metal, filler, polyurethane, acrylic paint, soil, glass, 98 3/8 x 109 x 54 3/8".

Düsseldorf

Aaron Peck on Felix Schramm

Stefan Panhans, The Long Goodbye (Pre-Afterwork-Ok- Clubset) Casino, 2013. installation view, steintorplatz, hamburg.

Hamburg/Berlin

Jens Asthoff on Stefan Panhans

View of “Glory Hole,” 2013.

Antwerp, Belgium

Jos Van den Bergh on “Glory Hole”

Charlie Roberts, Back Bridge, 2013, oil on canvas, 70 7/8 x 67".

Copenhagen

Barry Schwabsky on Charlie Roberts

Patricia Esquivias, The Future Was When?, 2009, video, color, sound, 19 minutes 51 seconds.

Vigo, Spain

Javier Hontoria on Patricia Esquivias

Edy Ferguson, American Cinema (detail), 2013, oil on linen, adhesive vinyl, video projection, overall 11' x 13' 2" x 4'.

Athens

Stephanie Bailey on Edy Ferguson

David Kakabadze, Industry, 1927, india ink and lacquer on cardboard, 18 7/8 x 15".

Tbilisi, Georgia

Lali Pertenava on David Kakabadze

View of “Data Curation,” 2013.

Seoul

Jung-Ah Woo on “Data Curation”

Yuki Katsura, Self-Portrait (Of My Young Age), 1985, cloth, cotton batting, 66 1/2 x 24 2/5 x 5 3/4".

Tokyo

Midori Matsui on Yuki Katsura