TABLE OF CONTENTS

November 2014

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November 2014, Vol. 53, No. 3

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COLUMNS

Robert Gardner, Benares, India, 1984. Photo: Jane Tuckerman.

PASSAGES

Bruce Jenkins on Robert Gardner

Gordon Matta-Clark’s telegram to Vassar College, reproduced in his artist’s statement for the exhibition “26 × 26” at the Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1971.

BOOKS

Christopher S. Wood on Molly Nesbit’s The Pragmatism in the History of Art

Robert Wilson, The Old Woman, 2013. Performance view, Palace Theatre, Manchester, UK, July 4, 2013. From the Manchester International Festival. From left: Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo: Lucie Jansch.

PERFORMANCE

Amy Taubin on Robert Wilson’s The Old Woman

Mike Leigh, Mr. Turner, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 149 minutes. J. M. W. Turner (Timothy Spall).

FILM

Tim Barringer on Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner

Artist unknown, Contraste de formes, n.d., oil on canvas, 35 × 28".

TECHNOLOGY

Finn Brunton on art and the algorithms of forgery

Fujiko Nakaya, Veil, 2014, fog. Installation view, Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT. Photo: Richard Barnes.

ON SITE

Michelle Kuo on Fujiko Nakaya at the Glass House

Fujiko Nakaya, Veil, 2014, fog. Installation view, Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT. Photo: Richard Barnes.

ON SITE

Julian Rose on Fujiko Nakaya at the Glass House

Mural painted by Jess in 1956, with door and floor painted by Harry Jacobus in 1958, in the kitchen of the Kael Basart House, Berkeley, CA, 2014. Photo: Wilfred J. Jones. © Jess Collins Trust.

ON SITE

Greil Marcus on Jess’s murals

top ten

Brooks Headley

Bernard Tschumi Architects, Acropolis Museum, 2009, Athens. Photo: Peter Mauss/Esto.

ARCHITECTURE

Tina Di Carlo on Bernard Tschumi’s retrospective

Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Harvard Art Museums renovation and expansion, anticipated completion 2014, Cambridge, MA. Photo: Peter Vanderwarker.

ARCHITECTURE

Philip Walsh on Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s Harvard Art Museums

MUSIC

Asher Penn on Grimes

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Lucio Fontana, Ambiente spaziale a luce nera (Spatial Environment in Black Light), 1949/1976, papier-mâché, phosphorescent pigment. Installation view, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2014. Photo: Benoît Fougeirol. All works by Lucio Fontana © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome.

IMMODEST PROPOSALS: THE ART OF LUCIO FONTANA

Briony Fer

Guthrie Lonergan, Lonely Los Angeles (details), 2005, website screen captures.

IN SEARCH OF: THE ART OF GUTHRIE LONERGAN

Ed Halter

CLOSE-UP: NEUTRAL SOLUTION

Molly Warnock on Michel Parmentier’s 16 juillet 1988

Still from Peter Wächtler’s Untitled, 2013, HD video, color, sound, 14 minutes.

INTERIORITY COMPLEX: THE ART OF PETER WÄCHTLER

Jakob Schillinger

Forest site of Katie Paterson’s Future Library, 2014–2114, Nordmarka, Oslo, March 6, 2014. Photo: Katie Paterson.

1000 WORDS: KATIE PATERSON AND MARGARET ATWOOD

Lars Bang Larsen

Avery Singer, Saturday Night, 2013, acrylic on wood panel, 43 3/4 × 59 7/8".

OPENINGS: AVERY SINGER

Isabelle Graw

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Thomas Hirschhorn, ABSCHLAG (Felling) (detail), 2014, mixed media and paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, and Olga Rozanova. Installation view. Photo: Egor Rogalev.

Matthew S. Witkovsky on Manifesta 10

Anne Collier, Cut (Color), 2009, C-print, 45 3/4 × 55".

Tom McDonough on Anne Collier

Still from Paul Chan’s Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization (After Henry Darger and Charles Fourier), 2000–2003, digital-video projection, color, sound, 17 minutes 20 seconds.

Jacob Proctor on Paul Chan

Tomma Abts, Oke, 2013, acrylic and oil on canvas, 18 7/8 × 15".

New York

Simon Starling, Bird in Space, 2004, Romanian steel plate, inflatable jacks, helium tank, hose, 6' × 20' 1/8“ × 11 5/8”.

Chicago

Sara VanDerBeek, Ancient Solstice, 2014, digital C-print, 24 × 17 3/4".

San Francisco

Elizabeth Mangini on Sara VanDerBeek

David Horvitz, Public Access (Bodega Head), 2011–14, C-print, 9 5/8 × 14 5/8". From the series “Public Access,” 2011–14.

Los Angeles

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, You Are the Prime Minister (neon sign), 2014, curtain, desk, chairs, neon. Installation view.

London

View of “Caoimhe Kilfeather,” 2014.

Dublin

Declan Long on Caoimhe Kilfeather

View of “Michael Müller,” 2014.

Berlin

Gianfranco Baruchello, (s.t.), 1965, India ink, enamel, brass, wood, 15 3/4 × 14 1/8 × 3/4".

Hamburg

Sven Beckstette on Gianfranco Baruchello

View of “Beuys Brock Vostell,” 2014.

Karlsruhe, Germany

Caroline Lillian Schopp on “Beuys Brock Vostell”

Kasper Sonne, TXC57, 2014, industrial paint and chemicals on canvas, 60 × 48". From the series “TXC,” 2013.

Milan

Marco Meneguzzo on Kasper Sonne

View of “Alek O.,” 2014. Foreground: Banane, 2014. Background, from left: Tangram, 2014; Fino Mornasco, 2014; Tangram, 2014.

Rome

Pier Paolo Pancotto on Alek O.

View of “Art or Sound,” 2014. From left: Tom Sachs, Toyan’s Jr., 2001; Gebrüder Wellershaus fairground organ, early-twentieth century.

Venice

Jens Hoffmann on “Art or Sound”

Lee Ufan, Relatum—Dialogue X, 2014, steel, stones, 11' 6“ × 29' 6 1/4” × 59' 5/8".

Versailles

Lillian Davies on Lee Ufan

Milena Dragicevic, PamperoBlackPants, 2014, ink-jet print, 46 3/4 × 33 1/4".

Vienna

Jurriaan Benschop on Milena Dragicevic

View of “Hynek Alt,” 2014. Background: Untitled (Chair), 2014. Foreground: untitled, 2014.

Prague

Noemi Smolik on Hynek Alt

Sirous Namazi, Carpet, 2014, printed Saxony carpet, 8 1/4“ × 7' 2 1/2” × 10' 6".

Stockholm

Theodor Ringborg on Sirous Namazi

Merike Estna, Camouflage Painting Show, 2014, oil on canvas, house paint. Installation view.

Tallinn, Estonia

Neringa Černiauskaitė on Merike Estna

View of “Musa paradisiaca,” 2014; Kunsthalle Lissabon. From left: Pau-mão (Stick-hand), 2014; O sono do Francisco (The Sleep of Francisco), 2014.

Lisbon

Filipa Oliveira on Musa paradisiaca

Rosa Barba, Stage Archive, 2011, 35-mm film, Perspex, guiding rollers, neon lamps, engine, 3' 3“ × 10' 6”. From “Thingworld.”

Beijing

Venus Lau on “Thingworld”

Fiona Tan, Nellie (detail), 2013, still from the 3-minute 9-second color HD video component of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising framed cloth.

Tokyo

Dawn Chan on Fiona Tan

View of “Mariana Castillo Deball,” 2014. Floor: Vista de ojos, 2014. Walls: All works Untitled, 2014.

Mexico City

Sarah Lookofsky on Mariana Castillo Deball

Pat Brassington, Bayonet, 2013, ink-jet print, 39 3/8 × 29 1/8".

Sydney

Toni Ross on Pat Brassington