TABLE OF CONTENTS

February 2015

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Cover: William Pope.L, Foraging (Asphyxia Version) (detail), 1993–95/2008, digital C-print, 19 1/8 × 18 1/2". From the series “Black Domestic Project,” 1993–95.

February 2015, Vol. 53, No. 6

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COLUMNS

Paul Sharits, Frozen Film Frame (detail), ca. 1966–77, 16-mm color film strips, Plexiglas, 39 3/8 × 52 3/4".

FILM

Marc Siegel on Paul Sharits

André Singer, Night Will Fall, 2014, digital video, color and black-and-white, sound, 79 minutes.

FILM

Jonathan Rosenbaum on André Singer’s Night Will Fall

Cover of Renée Green’s World Tour (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1993).

BOOKS

André Rottmann on the collected writings of Renée Green

John Lucas and Claudia Rankine, Situation #6: Stop and Frisk, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 5 minutes 32 seconds. From the series “Situations,” 2006–.

BOOKS

Siobhan Phillips on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen

Chen Chieh-jen, Empire’s Borders 1–2, 2008–2009, ink-jet print, 25 5/8 × 39 3/8".

ON SITE

Venus Lau on the Tenth Shanghai Biennale

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Cosmin Costinas

VAULT

Svetlana Alpers on Rembrandt at the National Gallery in London

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Still from Danji Buck-Moore, Henning Fehr, and Philipp Rühr’s Polyrhythm Technoir Pt. III: The Rattle Snake:
A Film About the Future (work in progress), digital video, color, sound.

OPENINGS: HENNING FEHR AND PHILIPP RÜHR

Nicolas Linnert

View of “Isabelle Cornaro,” 2013, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. Three works from the series “Homonymes I,” 2010/2012.

SUSPENDED ANIMATION: THE ART OF ISABELLE CORNARO

Paul Galvez

Aura Satz, Chromatic Aberration, 2014, HD video, color, sound, 9 minutes.

1000 WORDS: AURA SATZ

Erika Balsom

William Pope.L, Eating the Wall Street Journal (street version), 1991. Performance view, New York, summer 1991.

MATERIAL WITNESS: VISUAL EVIDENCE AND THE CASE OF ERIC GARNER

David Joselit

James Richards, Raking Light, 2014, digital video, black-and-white and color, sound, 7 minutes 5 seconds. Installation view, Cabinet Gallery, London.

CLOSE-UP: DOUBLE NEGATIVE

Kathy Noble on James Richards’s Raking Light, 2014

Harun Farocki, Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the World and the Inscription of War), 1988, 16 mm, black-and-white and color, sound, 75 minutes. © Harun Farocki Filmproduktion.

EYE MACHINES: THE ART OF HARUN FAROCKI

D. N. Rodowick

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View of “Chris Ofili: Night and Day,” 2014–15. From left: No Woman, No Cry, 1998; The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996. Photo: Maris Hutchinson/EPW.

Carroll Dunham on Chris Ofili

View of “Sculpture After Sculpture,” 2014–15. From left: Katharina Fritsch, Elefant, 1987; Charles Ray, Tractor, 2005; Jeff Koons, Metallic Venus, 2010–12.

Anne M. Wagner on “Sculpture After Sculpture”

View of “Sturtevant: Double Trouble,” 2014–15. From left: Finite Infinite, 2010; Johns Target with Four Faces (study), 1986; Warhol Cow Paper, 1996. © Estate Sturtevant, Paris.

Beau Rutland on Sturtevant

Cécile B. Evans, Hyperlinks or it didn’t happen, 2014, HD video, color, sound, 22 minutes 30 seconds.

London

Fernanda Chieco, O cachorro, o correio, o casal, o dorminhoco (The Dog, the Post Office, the Couple, the Sleeper), 2014, watercolor on paper, 67 5/8 × 97 7/8".

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Fernanda Chieco

Imran Qureshi, And they still seek traces of blood, 2013–14, lithoprints on paper. Installation view.

Birmingham, UK

Zehra Jumabhoy on Imran Qureshi

Victoria Morton, Feed Me, 2014, oil on canvas, 118 × 98 1/2".

Glasgow

Jurriaan Benschop on Victoria Morton

Daiga Grantina, Quitting the House (detail), 2014, string, rope, wire, polyurethane-elastomer, polyurethane, acrylic, 92 1/2 × 6 × 6".

Paris

Joachim Bandau, Der Späher (The Spy), 1974, glass-fiber-reinforced polyester, lacquer, anodized aluminum, iron wheels, 87 3/4 × 21 3/4 × 33 1/2".

Berlin

Annika Kahrs, Ich habe noch zwei gute Bilder gemacht (I Have Taken Two More Good Photos), 2014, C-print, 9 1/2 × 13 1/2". From the series “Star-Filled Skies,” 2014–.

Hamburg

Jens Asthoff on Annika Kahrs

Florine Stettheimer, Asbury Park South, 1920, oil on canvas, 50 × 60".

Munich

Daniela Stöppel on Florine Stettheimer

Cosima von Bonin, DER ITALIENER (THE ITALIAN), 2014, Styrofoam, fiberglass, laminate, galvanized steel, lacquer. Installation view.

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Cosima von Bonin

View of “Elmgreen & Dragset,” 2014. Foreground: Death of a Collector, 2009. Background: The One & the Many, 2011.

Copenhagen

Lars Bang Larsen on Elmgreen & Dragset

Davide Mosconi, Giro del mondo, Amsterdam (A Trip Around the World, Amsterdam), 1974, Polaroid on postcard, 5 1/8 × 9". From the series “Giro del mondo,” 1974.

Milan

Marco Meneguzzo on Davide Mosconi

View of “Patrizio Di Massimo,” 2014.

Rome

Pier Paolo Pancotto on Patrizio Di Massimo

Alessandra Spranzi, Obsoleto #40 (Obsolete #40), 2013–14, Polaroid, book page, 10 3/4 × 7 7/8". From the series “Obsoleto,” 2013–.

Bologna, Italy

Marco Tagliafierro on Alessandra Spranzi

View of “Asier Mendizabal,” 2014.

Bilbao

Miguel Amado on Asier Mendizabal

Zbyněk Baladrán, Diderot’s Dream (detail), 2014, two HD video projections, color, sound; 11 minutes 5 seconds, 2 minutes 24 seconds. Installation view.

Prague

Markéta Stará Condeixa on Zbyněk Baladrán

View of “Maria Bartuszová,” 2014.

Warsaw

Noemi Smolik on Maria Bartuszová

View of “Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History,” 2014.

Moscow

Hendrik Folkerts on “Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History”

Shambhavi Kaul, Scene 32, 2009, 16-mm film and HD video, color and black-and-white, sound, 5 minutes.

Mumbai

Ryan Holmberg on Shambhavi Kaul

Tokyo

Nicolas Linnert on Josh Brand

View of “Ernesto Mallard and Pedro Reyes.” From left: Ernesto Mallard, Natura-círculo, 1970; Pedro Reyes, Capula Klein, 2006.

Mexico City

Travis Diehl on Ernesto Mallard and Pedro Reyes

View of “Learn to Read Art: A Surviving History of Printed Matter,” 2014–15.

New York

Kevin Schmidt, A Sign in the Northwest Passage, 2010, digital C-print, 64 1/8 × 49". From La Biennale de Montréal.

Montreal

Murtaza Vali on La Biennale de Montréal

Nicole Eisenman, Sloppy Bar Room Kiss, 2011, oil on canvas, 39 × 48".

Philadelphia

William J. Simmons on Nicole Eisenman

Lucie Stahl, Shroom Cloud Hands (Purple), 2014, polyurethane, acrylic, 10 1/2 × 6 × 3 1/2".

Chicago

Michelle Grabner on Lucie Stahl

View of “Do Ho Suh,” 2014.

Austin

Julian Rose on Do Ho Suh

Chris Finley, barium eye run (Tim Cook), 2014, mixed media, 15 × 16 × 13".

San Francisco

Elizabeth Mangini on Chris Finley

View of “Stan VanDerBeek,” 2014. From left: Poemfield No. 5, 1968; Poemfield No. 3, 1967. Both from the series “Poemfield,” 1965–71.

Los Angeles