TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2015

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January 2015, Vol. 53, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Stephen Sutcliffe, The Hidden God, 2014, HD digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes 31 seconds. From “Artists and Archives: Artists’ Moving Image at the BBC.”

BOOKS

Melissa Gronlund on Maeve Connolly’s TV Museum

BOOKS

Stan Allen on architects’ drawings

Flyer designed by Viv Albertine for a Slits show in Leeds,
UK, 1977.

MUSIC

Greil Marcus on Viv Albertine’s autobiography

MUSIC

Rob Young on Aphex Twin’s Syro

Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice, 2014, 35 mm, color, sound, 148 minutes. Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) and Sauncho Smilax (Benicio Del Toro).

FILM

J. Hoberman on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice

Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviathan, 2014, 35 mm, color, sound, 141 minutes. Roma (Sergey Pokhodaev).

FILM

Tony Pipolo on Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan

Abderrahmane Sissako, Timbuktu, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 97 minutes. Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed).

FILM

Manthia Diawara on the films of Abderrahmane Sissako

top ten

Justin Peck

David Lynch, Six Men Getting Sick (detail), 1967, fiberglass, resin, acrylic, and graphite on Masonite panel, 16-mm projection (color, sound, 60 seconds).

ON SITE

Dennis Lim on David Lynch in Philadelphia

ON SITE

Peter Lunenfeld on Cameron in Los Angeles

Group portrait after Experiments in Environment workshop, Kentfield, CA, 1968. Photo: Paul Ryan. Lawrence Halprin Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania.

PERFORMANCE

Solveig Nelson on the Halprin workshops

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SPRING 2015 EXHIBITIONS: 40 shows worldwide

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, The Incidental Insurgents, Part 1: The Part About the Bandits, Chapter 2, 2012, HD video, color, sound, 6 minutes.

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Sharjah Biennial 12

Kano Hideyori, Maple Leaf Viewing at Mount Takao, ca. mid-sixteenth century, pigment on paper, 4' 11 1/8“ × 11' 11 7/8”. Photo: TNM Image Archives.

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rediscovering the Kano School

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UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: THE ART OF ON KAWARA

Joan Kee

Jacolby Satterwhite, En Plein Air: Abduction II, 2014, digital C-print, 84 × 60".

PORTFOLIO

Jacolby Satterwhite

Simone Forti, See-Saw, 1960. Performance view, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, July 23, 2014. From left: Simone Forti, Hugo Le Brigand, and Filipa Bavčević. Photo: Rainer Iglar.

SPIRIT MOVES: THE ART OF SIMONE FORTI

Catherine Wood

Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin, 1955/2006, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 105 minutes.

CLOSE-UP: ET IN ARKADIN EGO

Brian O’Doherty on Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (1955)

Jennifer West, Flashlight Filmstrip Projections, 2014, Plexiglas, 35-mm and 70-mm film strips, flashlights. Installation view, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR. From TBA:14. Photo: Evan La Londe.

1000 WORDS: JENNIFER WEST

Jon Raymond

Kevin Beasley, I Want My Spot Back, 2012. Performance view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 26, 2012. Photo: Julieta Cervantes.

OPENINGS: KEVIN BEASLEY

Thomas J. Lax

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View of “Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor,” 2014–15. Foreground: Untitled, 1990. Background: Forest, 1991. Photo: Thomas Griesel.

Hal Foster on Robert Gober

Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, The Ozymandias Parade, 1985, mixed media. Installation view, Biennale Hall. From the Gwangju Biennale. Photo: Stefan Altenburger.

Philip Tinari on the Gwangju Biennale and the Taipei Biennial

Akosua Adoma Owusu, Kwaku Ananse, 2013, 35 mm transferred to HD digital video, color, sound, 25 minutes.

Nick Stillman on Prospect.3

Judy Pfaff, There Is a Field, I Will Meet You There [Rumi], 2014, steel, Plexiglas, fluorescent lights, plastic, expanding foam, dimensions variable.

New York

View of “Thea Djordjadze,” 2014–15.

Cambridge, MA

Annie Godfrey Larmon on Thea Djordjadze

Becca Lowry, RIP 06, 2014, mixed media on carved wood, 38 3/4 × 30 × 3 1/2".

New Haven

Oana Sanziana Marian on Becca Lowry

Zak Prekop, Transparency with Five Colors, 2014, oil on muslin, 96 × 64".

Chicago

Jacob Proctor on Zak Prekop

View of “Lisa Anne Auerbach,” 2014. From left: Oops! I did it again, 2014; Whip Chin, 2010; Feather Duster, 2010; Vanity, 2010.

Los Angeles

Jason de Haan, Free and Easy Wanderer (Red River), 2014, fossils, humidifiers, concrete, dimensions variable.

Toronto

Bryne McLaughlin on Jason de Haan

View of “Pierre Huyghe,” 2014. From left: Nymphéas Transplant (14–18), 2014; La déraison, 2014; Nymphéas Transplant (12.21.1914), 2014.

London

Cathy Wilkes, Untitled (detail), 2014, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Glasgow

Lauren Dyer Amazeen on Cathy Wilkes

Seth Price, Compatibility Mode, 2014, screenprint, acrylic, pigmented acrylic polymer, and gesso on plywood, 47 1/4 × 83 5/8 × 7/8".

Paris

Mara Hoberman on Seth Price

View of “Joan Jonas,” 2014–15.

Milan

Rä di Martino, Authentic News of Invisible Things (model for a dummy tank), 2014, wood, 6' 6 3/4“ × 14' 1 1/4” × 7' 8 1/2".

Bolzano, Italy

Paola Nicolin on Rä di Martino

View of “Park McArthur,” 2014. From left: Black & White Plaid Commode, Breakfast Commode, Pink Love Commode, Calvin Klein Commode (detail), 2014; Passive Vibration Isolation 4, 2014.

Berlin

View of “Jutta Koether,” 2014. From left: Fiorentino Rosso Sansepolcro, 2014; Cosimo Piero Gemäldegalerie, 2014.

Zurich

Simon Baier on Jutta Koether

View of “Bruce High Quality Foundation,” 2014.

Brussels

Jos Van den Bergh on Bruce High Quality Foundation

Olafur Eliasson, Riverbed, 2014, blue basalt, water. Installation view.

Humlebæk, Denmark

Travis Jeppesen on Olafur Eliasson

View of “Miki Leal,” 2014. From left: La pared de Raymond (Raymond’s Wall), 2014; Juego de lápiz (Playing with the Pencil), 2014; De como todo es posible (About How Everything Is Possible), 2014; Proyecto para una alfombra (Project for a Carpet), 2014.

Madrid

Javier Hontoria on Miki Leal

Flo Kasearu, Väljakasvanud (Grown Out), 2013, C-print, 29 1/2 × 37 1/2". From the series “Väljakasvanud” (Grown Out), 2013.

Warsaw

Noemi Smolik on Flo Kasearu

View of “Nevin Aladağ,” 2014. Walls: March (Istanbul), 2014. Center: Beeline (Istanbul), 2014.

Istanbul

Mine Haydaroğlu on Nevin Aladağ

View of “He Xiangyu,” 2014. From left: Copper, 2014; Lemon Flavored, 2014; RRL, 2014; Endless Copies, 2014.

Beijing

Koo Jeong-A, Dearest Young Hoi (detail), 2014, enamel, stainless steel table, 29 1/4 × 78 3/4 × 29 1/4". From Real DMZ Project 2014.

Cheorwon-Gun, South Korea/Seoul

Rachael Rakes on Real DMZ Project 2014

View of “Babak Golkar,” 2014. Wall: Fair Trade, 2014. Floor: Assisted Reconstruction, 2014.

Dubai

Murtaza Vali on Babak Golkar

Gagan Singh, Untitled, 2010, ink on paper, 21 1/2 × 29 1/2".

Mumbai

Ryan Holmberg on Gagan Singh

View of “Benglis 73/74,” 2014. From left: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Piccadilly International Vol. 10, No. 10, 1976; Sarah Lucas, Bucket of Tea, A, 1993–2013; Lynda Benglis, Female Sensibility, 1973; Janet Burchill, The Temptation To Exist etc., 1990. Installation view, Neon Parc.

Melbourne

Charles Green on “Benglis 73/74”

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants) (detail), 1972, seven C-prints, each 16 × 20". From the suite Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), 1972. From “artevida,” 2014. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, L.L.C.

Rio de Janeiro

Jens Hoffmann on “artevida”