TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2014

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Cover: Sarah Michelson, Daylight (for Minneapolis), 2005. Performance view, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 15, 2005. Bethany DeLine. Photo: Gene Pittman.

January 2014, Vol. 52, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Noël Burch and Allan Sekula, The Forgotten Space, 2010, digital video, color and black-and-white, sound, 110 minutes. Photo: Doc Eye Films.

PASSAGES

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on Allan Sekula

Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle (Breathless) (detail), 1960. Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg).

FILM

J. Hoberman on Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema of coming attractions

Still from Ernie Gehr’s Photographic Phantoms, 2013, digital video, color, sound, 27 minutes.

FILM

Tony Pipolo on Ernie Gehr’s new work

Still from Robert Beavers’s Listening to the Space in My Room, 2013, 16 mm, color, sound, 19 minutes.

FILM

Rebekah Rutkoff on Robert Beavers’s Listening to the Space in My Room

Ray Johnson, January/February, 1966, painted wood and paper on board, 30 x 30".

SLANT

Cary Loren on the Detroit Institute of Arts

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Coastal Landscape on Fehmarn, ca. 1913, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 47 1/2".

SLANT

Dana Schutz on the Detroit Institute of Arts

Edgar Degas, Dancers in the Green Room, ca. 1879, oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 34 1/2".

SLANT

Philip Levine on the Detroit Institute of Arts

SLANT

Julia Bryan-Wilson on “A Queer History of Fashion”

William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time, 2012, five-channel video projection, sound, megaphones, mixed media. Installation view, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013.

SLANT

Joseph Leo Koerner and Margaret Koster Koerner on William Kentridge

Snøhetta, James B. Hunt Jr. Library, 2013, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. Photo: Jeff Goldberg.

ARCHITECTURE

Philip Walsh on Snøhetta’s James B. Hunt Jr. Library

top ten

Bunny Rogers

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SPRING 2014 EXHIBITIONS: 45 shows worldwide

Sigmar Polke, Untitled (detail), 1975, photographic emulsion, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas, 15 3/4 x 19 3/4". © The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne/ARS, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

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Sigmar Polke

Paolo Veronese, The Family of Darius before Alexander, 1565–67, oil on canvas, 7' 7 3/4“ x 15' 7”.

Vault

Paolo Veronese

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Catherine Opie, Andy Warhol to Elizabeth (Self-Portrait Artist), 2010–11, ink-jet print.

STAR TURN: CATHERINE OPIE’S ELIZABETH TAYLOR PHOTOGRAPHS

Richard Meyer

Still from Amie Siegel’s Provenance, 2013, HD video, color, sound, 40 minutes 30 seconds.

1000 WORDS: AMIE SIEGEL

Mark Godfrey

Sarah Michelson, Shadowmann: Part II, 2003. Performance view, P.S.122, New York, April 2003. Sarah Michelson, Parker Lutz, Paige Martin. Photo: Dona McAdams.

I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR: THE WORK OF SARAH MICHELSON

David Velasco

Thomas Eggerer, Rodeo, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 79".

TIME ZONES: THE RECENT WORK OF THOMAS EGGERER

David Joselit

James Bishop, Other Colors, 1964, oil on canvas, 59 x 59".

FIELD AGENT: THE ART OF JAMES BISHOP

Molly Warnock

Engraving of the Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, site of the Salon d’Hiver de la Société des Artistes Indépendants, December 1884–January 1885, avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris.

WHY WAS MODERNISM BORN IN FRANCE?

Thierry de Duve on the collapse of the Beaux-Arts system

Elise Adibi, Abiogenesis, 2009, rabbit-skin glue, graphite, and oil on canvas, 72 x 72".

OPENINGS: ELISE ADIBI

Suzanne Hudson

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Pierre Huyghe, Untitled (Weather Score), 2002, mixed media. Installation view, 2013. © Pierre Huyghe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

Nicolas Bourriaud on Pierre Huyghe

“View of Philippe Parreno: Anywhere, Anywhere, Out of the World,” 2013. Sconces: 56 Flickering Lights (detail), 2013. Windows: Out of Focus Windows (detail), 2013.

Jeff Rian on Philippe Parreno

Phyllida Barlow, TIP, 2013, timber, steel, spray paint, paint, steel mesh, scrim, cement, fabric, varnish. Installation view.

Sarah K. Rich on the 2013 Carnegie International

Reza Mafi, Untitled, 1973, oil on cardboard, 30 3/4 x 11".

Shiva Balaghi on “Iran Modern”

Wynne Greenwood, More Heads, Belgrade, 2013, video, color, sound, 2 minutes 43 seconds.

New York

View of “Haim Steinbach,” 2013.

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Michael Lobel on Haim Steinbach

Chris Marker, Untitled #188, 2008–10, C-print, 13 1/4 x 16 1/2". From the series “Passengers,” 2008–10. MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Cambridge, MA

William Kaizen on Chris Marker

Beverly Fishman, Dividose M.B.V., 2013, triptych, enamel on polished stainless steel, overall 60 x 72". From the series, “Dividose,” 2002–.

East Lansing, MI

Nadja Rottner on Beverly Fishman

Anne Wilson, Dispersions (no. 7) (detail), 2013, thread, hair, cloth, metal frame, 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1 1/2". From the series “Dispersions,” 2013.

Chicago

Maggie Taft on Anne Wilson

View of “Tobias Kaspar,” 2013. From left: Core Lux, 2013; Holiday, 2013; Stripped Bare (Exhibition Announcement), 2013.

Minneapolis

Sam Pulitzer on Tobias Kaspar

Heimrad Bäcker, Remnants of Foundations in the Wiener Graben Quarry in Mauthausen, n.d., gelatin silver print, 3 1/2 x 10 1/2".

Denver

Gregory Williams on Heimrad Bäcker

View of “Paul Heyer,” 2013.

Los Angeles

Elizabeth Price, SUNLIGHT, 2013, two-channel digital-video projection, color, sound, 10 minutes.

Southend-on-Sea, UK

Rachel Withers on Elizabeth Price

Idris Khan, Beyond the Black (Wall Drawing), 2013, oil and gesso on wall, dimensions variable.

London

Jennifer Tee, Practical Magic, 2013, mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation view.

Dublin

Declan Long on Jennifer Tee

Ian Kiaer, a. r. salle des études (a. r. study room) (detail), 2013, paper, Plexiglas, rubber, aluminum, video projection (black-and-white, silent, 60 minutes), dimensions variable.

Paris

Sharon Hayes, Kate Millett, and the Women’s Liberation Cinema, Gay Power, 1971/2007/2012, 16 mm, color, sound, 33 minutes.

Berlin

View of “Jan De Cock,” 2013.

Otegem, Belgium

Wouter Davidts on Jan De Cock

View of “Helen Mirra,” 2013. From left: Arizonan Sonoran Desert, January 6, 2012; Arizonan Sonoran Desert, January 9, 2012; Arizonan Sonoran Desert, January 10, 2012. From the series “Hourly Directional Field Notations,” 2011–.

Milan

Leonor Antunes, the thread is so tiny that the eye, though armed with a magnifying glass, suspects it, rather than sees it II, 2013, agba wood, nylon thread, dimensions variable. Installation view.

Lisbon

Filipa Oliveira on Leonor Antunes

Grzegorz Kowalski, Calendar II, ca. 1970, collage, graphite pencil, ballpoint pen, india ink, tempera, and tape on paper and plastic sheet, 22 1/4 x 15".

Warsaw

Sylwia Serafinowicz on Grzegorz Kowalski

Basim Magdy, Expanding the Universe, 2008, acrylic, spray paint, and gouache on paper, 15 x 20".

Prague

Noemi Smolik on Basim Magdy

Gal Weinstein, Fire Tire, 2010/2013, wax, natural and polyester wool, styrofoam, graphite, 14' 9“ x 19' 8 1/4” x 9' 10". From the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. Geni Tzami Mosque.

Thessaloniki, Greece

Cathryn Drake on the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

Gülsün Karamustafa, Körebe (Blind Man’s Bluff), 1974, acrylic on paper, 23 x 17 3/8". From the series “Prison Paintings,” 1972–78.

Istanbul

Theodor Ringborg on Gülsün Karamustafa

View of “Etal Adnan,” 2013. Foreground: Untitled 1, 2013.

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Etel Adnan

Asim Waqif, Urban Ruin at Ashram Chowk #1, 2013, digital C-prints, ink-jet print, wood, MDF, aluminum, 48 x 84 x 6".

New Delhi

Ryan Holmberg on Asim Waqif