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May 2014

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Cover: Cildo Meireles, Inserções em circuitos ideológicos 2: Projeto cédula (Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project) (detail), 1970/2014, ink on banknotes, dimensions variable.

May 2014, Vol. 52, No. 9

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COLUMNS

PASSAGES

Lucy R. Lippard on Nancy Holt

Rene Ricard, New York City, July 29, 1986. Photo: Allen Ginsberg.

PASSAGES

Ingrid Sischy on Rene Ricard

Rene Ricard, Donald Baechler, 2000, oil on linen, 72 x 48".

PASSAGES

Glenn O’Brien on Rene Ricard

PASSAGES

Virginia Dwan on Nancy Holt

BOOKS

Craig Dworkin on the writings of Marcel Broodthaers

Denis Villeneuve, Enemy, 2013, digital video, color, sound, 90 minutes. Adam and Anthony (Jake Gyllenhaal).

FILM

Tony Pipolo on Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy and Richard Ayoade’s The Double

FILM

J. Hoberman on the films of Sigmar Polke

True Detective, 2014, production still from a TV show on HBO. Detective Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Detective Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson). Photo: Lacey Terrell.

TELEVISION

Tim Griffin on True Detective

Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt, and Mary Kelly, Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry 1973–1975, mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation view, Tate Britain, London, 2014.

ON SITE

Julia Bryan-Wilson on Women and Work

David Levine, WOW (work in progress). Performance view, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY, January 24, 2014. Fab Morvan (Randall Smith) and Rob Pilatus (Joey Kipp). Photo: Ryan Muir.

PERFORMANCE

Stephen Squibb on David Levine’s WOW

top ten

Ana Lily Amirpour

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Summer Exhibitions

40 shows worldwide

Jeff Koons, Aqui Bacardi, 1986, oil inks on canvas, 45 x 60".

Focus Preview

Jeff Koons

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Gondola lift, Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, July 7, 2011. Photo: PAC2/Flickr.

DISPATCH: CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE IN RIO DE JANEIRO

Cildo Meireles, Inserções em circuitos ideológicos 2: Projeto cédula (Insertions into Ideological Circuits 2: Banknote Project) (detail), 1970, ink on banknotes, dimensions variable.

Guilherme Wisnik

Tamar Guimarães, Canoas, 2010, 16 mm transferred to HD video, color, sound, 13 minutes 24 seconds.

Tamar Guimarães

Bernardes & Jacobsen Arquitetura, Museu de Arte do Rio, 2013, Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Leonardo Finotti.

Sérgio B. Martins

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, / (- \, 2013, aluminum, powder-coated steel. Installation view, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal. Photo: André Cepeda.

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Cachorro Vinagre, Os brutos (The Raw Takes), 2013, digital video, color, sound, 22 minutes 25 seconds.

Irene V. Small

Perimetral Highway, Rio de Janeiro, August 17, 2013. Photo: Renata Lucas.

Renata Lucas

Eduardo Coutinho, Cabra marcado para morrer (Twenty Years Later), 1964–84, 35 mm, black-and-white and color, sound, 119 minutes.

Chris Stults

Charline von Heyl, Blotto, 2004, oil on linen, 78 x 82".

STATEMENTS OF INTENT: THE ART OF JACQUELINE HUMPHRIES, LAURA OWENS, AMY SILLMAN, AND CHARLINE VON HEYL

Mark Godfrey

Yve Laris Cohen, Duke, 2010. Performance view, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, December 8, 2010. Yve Laris Cohen and Michael Mahalchick. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu.

OPENINGS: YVE LARIS COHEN

David Velasco

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David Wojnarowicz, Magic Box (detail), n.d., wooden box, mixed media, 8 x 17 x 11 1/2". From Julie Ault, Afterlife: A Constellation, 2014.

Emily Apter on the Whitney Biennial

View of “Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe,” 2014. Four works by Enrico Prampolini. From left: Sketch for Stage Design of The Merchant of Hearts, ca. 1926–27; Costume for Propeller Dance, 1928; Costume for Football Dance, 1928; Simultaneous Self-Portrait, ca. 1923. Photo: Kris McKay.

Ara H. Merjian on “Italian Futurism”

Sammy Baloji, untitled, 2013, ink-jet print, 16 x 23 7/8". From the series “The Album,” 2013.

T. J. Demos on Sammy Baloji and Alice Seeley Harris

View of the Whitney Biennial, 2014. From left: Joel Otterson, Camp, 2014; Joel Otterson, Curtains Laced with Diamonds Dear for You, 2014; Sheila Hicks, Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column, 2013–14; Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Notley, 2013. Hanging, from left: Joel Otterson, 187 Bottoms Up, 2013; Joel Otterson, 84 Bottoms Up, 2013. Photo: Chandra Glick.

Helen Molesworth on the Whitney Biennial

Magali Reus, Lukes (Wet Wet), 2013, mixed media, 54 1/2 x 35 x 43 1/2". From the series “Lukes,” 2013–.

London

Taryn Simon, Switzerland, 2014, ink-jet prints in boxed mat and aluminum frame, 39 7/8 x 79 1/2". From the series “Birds of the West Indies,” 2013–14.

Los Angeles

Nicholas Keogh and Barry Cullen, Dust Bin Disco, 2007–, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Belfast

Declan Long on Nicholas Keogh

View of “Fabrice Hyber,” 2014.

Paris

Andreas Siekmann, In the Stomach of the Predators (detail), 2013, steel, wood, digital prints on canvas, dimensions variable.

Berlin

John Beeson on Andreas Siekmann

Josh Kline, Creative Hands (detail), 2013, silicone, commercial shelving, LED lights, 36 1/2 x 26 x 15 1/2". From “Speculations on Anonymous Materials,” 2013–14.

Kassel

Noemi Smolik on “Speculations on Anonymous Materials”

Helmut Schweizer, The mountains are not mountains anymore & Charivari to Naoto Matsumura, 2013, mixed media, 70 7/8 x 55 x 17 3/4".

Düsseldorf

Stephanie Bailey on Helmut Schweizer

Andra Ursuta, Soft Power 1, 2013, bedspreads, paint, wood, metal, electric air blower, inflated 94 1/2 x 98 1/2 x 118".

Milan

View of “Ettore Spalletti,” 2014. MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome. Back wall: Voce Bassa (Low Voice), 2014. Right wall: each Parole di colore (Words of Color), 2011.

Rome/Turin/Naples

Ida Panicelli on Ettore Spalletti

Alfredo Jaar, Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione (We Loved It So Much, the Revolution), 2013, glass, neon, dimensions variable.

Turin

Ida Panicelli on Alfredo Jaar

James Casebere, Sea of Ice, 2014, ink-jet print, 41 3/8 x 52 3/8".

Brussels

Lara Almarcegui, Buried House, Dallas, 2013, HD video, color, sound, 7 minutes.

Madrid

Javier Hontoria on Lara Almarcegui

Jorge Macchi, Cover 04, 2012, oil on canvas, 6' 4 3/4“ x 10' 2”.

Mexico City

Shezad Dawood, Towards the Possible Film, 2014. HD video and Super 16 transferred to HD video, color, sound, 20 minutes. From Marrakech Biennale 5.

Marrakech, Morocco

Kate Sutton on Marrakech Biennale 5

Sudarshan Shetty, untitled, 2013, ceramic, wood, 72 x 24 x 22".

New Delhi

Zeenat Nagree on Sudarshan Shetty

Muriel Cooper, Self-portrait with Polaroid SX-70, ca. 1982, large-format Polaroid, 32 1/2 x 21 1/2".

New York

Suara Welitoff, Untitled, 2013, ink-jet print, 40 x 30".

Boston

Nuit Banai on Suara Welitoff

View of “Ruffneck Constructivists,” 2014. From left: Tim Portlock, Sunrise—the extended constructivists re-render, 2013; Kendell Geers, Stripped Bare, 2009; Rodney McMillian, Carpet (Office and Ollie’s Room), 2012; William Pope.L, Claim, 2002/2014.

Philadelphia

Nell McClister on “Ruffneck Constructivists”

Nora Schultz, parrottree—building for bigger than real, 2014, mixed media. Installation view.

Chicago

Ian Bourland on Nora Schultz

Wolfgang Paalen, Les Cosmogones, 1944, oil on canvas, 96 x 93".

San Francisco

Kevin Killian on Wolfgang Paalen