TABLE OF CONTENTS

March 2014

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Cover: Terry Adkins, Muffled Drums (detail), 2003–13, eleven found bass drums, mufflers, steel, 30' 3“ x 3' 1/2” x 1' 7".

March 2014, Vol. 52, No. 7

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COLUMNS

PASSAGES

Daniel Birnbaum on Arthur C. Danto

BOOKS

Manuel Borja-Villel on T. J. Clark’s Picasso and Truth

View of “Magiciens de la Terre,” 1989, Grand Halle de La Villette, Paris. Foreground: Kane Kwei, seven coffins (Eagle, Elephant, Fish, Lobster, House, Onion, Mercedes), all 1988. Midground left: Mario Merz, Untitled, 1989. Midground right: Nera Jambruck, Fronton de maison des hommes (Pediment of the House of Men), 1988. Rear wall: Richard Long, Red Earth Circle, 1989. In front of Red Earth Circle: Claes Oldenberg, From the Entropic Library, 1989.

BOOKS

Claire Bishop on Making Art Global

Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013, 35 mm, color, sound, 104 minutes. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac). Production still. Photo: Alison Rosa.

FILM

Greil Marcus on Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis

FILM

Sarah Nicole Prickett on You Can’t Always Get What You Want”

Sir William Chambers, Chinese Pagoda, 1762, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Photo: C. Lansley/Flickr.

ARCHITECTURE

Winnie Wong on architectural copies

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Fred Tomaselli

Bhupen Khakhar, Janata Watch Repairing, 1972, oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 36 1/4".

SLANT

Zehra Jumabhoy on Bhupen Khakhar

View of “1938: Kunst, Künstler, Politik,” 2013–14. From left: Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Ausblick aus dem Nachtlokal (View from the Nightclub), 1930; Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Lissy, 1931; Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Eine Pflasterkolonne (II) (A Plaster Column [II]), 1931; Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, In der Barkasse (In the Barge), 1930. Photo: Uwe Dettmar.

SLANT

Daniel Birnbaum on “1938: Kunst, Künstler, Politik”

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Still from Jumana Manna’s The Umpire Whispers, 2010, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 15 minutes.

OPENINGS: JUMANA MANNA

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Unknown artist (formerly attributed to Piero della Francesca), Città Ideale (Ideal City), ca. 1480, oil on panel, 23 1/2 x 79".

THE INVENTION OF NON-ART: A THEORY

Thierry de Duve on the rise of the Art-in-General system

Page detail from Friedrich Kunath’s You Owe Me a Feeling (Blum & Poe, 2012).

CLOSE-UP: FOR REAL

Alison M. Gingeras on Friedrich Kunath’s You Owe Me a Feeling (2012)

Lucie Stahl, Power Aid, 2012, ink-jet print, UV-resistant lacquer, polyurethane, 65 3/4 x 47 1/4".

A SCANNER DARKLY: THE ART OF LUCIE STAHL

Daniela Stöppel

Still from Stan Brakhage’s Tortured Dust, 1984, 16 mm, color, silent, 90 minutes. Bearthm. © Estate of Stan Brakhage and Fred Camper.

CLOSE-UP: FAMILY BUSINESS

Tony Pipolo on Stan Brakhage’s Tortured Dust (1984)

First page of score to George Lewis’s The Will to Adorn, 2011.

EVENT SCORES:

TERRY ADKINS AND GEORGE LEWIS IN CONVERSATION

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View of “Christopher Wool,” 2013–14. Photo: Kristopher McKay.

Achim Hochdörfer on Christopher Wool

View of “Amy Sillman: one lump or two,” 2013–14. From left: Psychology Today, 2006; Untitled, 1999; A Bird in the Hand, 2006; Them, 2006. Photo: Charles Mayer.

Matt Saunders on Amy Sillman

Alex Prager, Crowd #7 (Bob Hope Airport), 2013, ink-jet print, 59 1/2 x 79".

New York

Carlos Jiménez Cahua, Untitled #104, 2013, ink-jet print, steamer, water, 81 x 32 1/4 x 16 1/2".

Boston

Nuit Banai on Carlos Jiménez Cahua

View of “Michelle Grabner,” 2013–14. Foreground: Replica of The Suburban. Inside, left: Karl Haendel, The bridle from the saddle and the cow from the cattle (detail), 2013.

Cleveland

Jeffrey Saletnik on Michelle Grabner

Poster for Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 film, Ashes and Diamonds, repainted by Said Mesfioui Ben Salam, 2011–12. From “Yto Barrada.”

Minneapolis

Ian Bourland on Yto Barrada

Clare Grill, Driftwood, 2013, oil on linen, 14 x 12". Installation view.

Los Angeles

View of “Mira Schendel,” 2013–14.

London

Dennis Oppenheim, Narrow Mind, 1974, fireworks, metal, wood, dimensions variable.

Leeds, UK

Jo Applin on Dennis Oppenheim

Stephen Willats, In the Beginning, 2011, mixed media. Installation view.

Paris

Christoph Schlingensief, The African Twin Towers: Stairlift to Heaven, 2007, stairlift, digital video projection (color, sound, 29 minutes 20 seconds). Installation view.

Berlin

View of “Nancy Graves,” 2013–14.

Aachen, Germany

Astrid Mania on Nancy Graves

Christian Falsnaes, One, 2013. Performance view, November 7, 2013. Center: Christian Falsnaes. Photo: Alwin Lay.

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Christian Falsnaes

Tony Oursler, Phantasmagoria (detail), 2013, mixed media, dimensions variable. MAC’s Grand-Hornu.

Brussels and Boussu, Belgium

Jos Van den Bergh on Tony Oursler

View of “Ian Tweedy,” 2013–14. From left: Fragment Kit III, Fragment Kit I, Fragment Kit II, all 2013. From the series “Fragment Kit (Aftermath of the 20th July Plot),” 2013.

Rome

Pier Paolo Pancotto on Ian Tweedy

Pratchaya Phinthong, Give More Than You Take, 2010–13, mixed media, dimensions variable. From “and Materials and Money and Crisis.”

Vienna

Nuit Banai on “and Materials and Money and Crisis”

El Roto, Untitled, 2012–13, ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper, 11 x 16 1/2".

Madrid

Pablo Llorca on El Roto

Black Tulip, New Origin (Phase 1), 2013, scaffolds, nylon belts, fabric, dimensions variable.

Barcelona

Javier Hontoria on Black Tulip

Leandro Erlich, Lost Garden, 2008, metal, bricks, glass, mirrors, fluorescent lights, artificial plants, dimensions variable.

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Leandro Erlich

Paul Guiragossian, Portrait of Juliette, 1978, oil on Masonite, 78 3/4 x 39 3/8".

Beirut

Nasser Rabbat on Paul Guiragossian

Atul Dodiya, Sunday Morning Marine Drive, 1995, oil, acrylic, and marble dust on canvas, 72 x 96".

New Delhi

Zeenat Nagree on Atul Dodiya

View of Eyal Weizman, Roundabout Revolution, 2013, mixed media. From Gwangju Folly II.

Gwangju

Adam Kleinman on “Gwangju Folly II”