TABLE OF CONTENTS

March 2015

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Cover: Petri dish containing bacteria cultures from a work in progress by Anicka Yi, 2015. Photo: Joerg Lohse.

March 2015, Vol. 53, No. 7

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COLUMNS

Robert Beavers and Gregory J. Markopoulos prepare for a screening at the Temenos, Lyssaraia, Greece, 1980. Photo: Tassos Dambergis.

BOOKS

Erika Balsom on the writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos

Promotional rendering for King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, 2014.

BOOKS

John Harwood on Keller Easterling’s Extrastatecraft

Kornél Mundruczó, Fehér Isten (White God), 2014, digital video, color, sound, 119 minutes.

FILM

Amy Taubin on Kornél Mundruczó’s White God

Jessica Hausner, Amour fou, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 96 minutes. Henriette Vogel (Birte Schnöink) and Heinrich von Kleist (Christian Friedel).

FILM

James Quandt on Jessica Hausner’s Amour fou

ARCHITECTURE

Caitlin Blanchfield on New York’s new skyscrapers

Cover of Cybernetic Serendipity Music (The Vinyl Factory/ICA, 2014).

MUSIC

Alan Licht on Cybernetic Serendipity Music

top ten

Dash Shaw

The Comeback, 2005/2014–, production still from a TV show on HBO. Season 2, episode 19. Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow). Photo: Colleen Hayes.

TELEVISION

Kevin McGarry on The Comeback

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Nick Mauss, 1NVERS1ONS, 2014. Performance view, Frieze Projects, Frieze London, October 16, 2014. Kim Gordon (center) with dancers from the Northern Ballet.

SECOND ACT:

KIM GORDON TALKS WITH NICK MAUSS

Petri dish containing bacteria cultures from a work in progress by Anicka Yi, 2015. Photo: Joerg Lohse.

PORTFOLIO

Anicka Yi

Jim Shaw, Not Since Superman Died (detail), 2014, acrylic on muslin, eight parts, overall 22' 6" × 50'.

1000 WORDS: JIM SHAW

Catherine Taft

Batman, 1966–68, still from a TV show on ABC. Season 2, episode 11, “The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes.” Robin (Burt Ward) and Batman (Adam West).

POP! AFTER POP!: THE BATMAN TV SHOW

J. Hoberman

SANAA, Rolex Learning Center, 2010, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Photo: Iwan Baan.

NEW WAVE: FLUID ARCHITECTURE

Nana Last

Andrea Büttner, Piano Destructions, 2014. Rehearsal view, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Canada,
April 11, 2014. Photo: Rita Taylor. © Andrea Büttner/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

ANGLE OF REPOSE: THE ART OF ANDREA BÜTTNER

Martin Herbert

Robert Hodge, Stand Your Ground, 2013, acrylic, oil, and gold leaf on reclaimed paper, hemp thread, 57 × 97".

OPENINGS: ROBERT HODGE

Julia Bryan-Wilson

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View of “ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s,” 2014–15, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. From left: Otto Piene, Light Ballet (Light Drum), 1969; Otto Piene, Light Ballet (Light Satellite), 1969. Photo: David Heald. All Otto Piene works © Otto Piene/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Germany.

Caroline A. Jones on “ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s”

View of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,” 2014–15. Floor, foreground: Paintings by Oscar Murillo, 2012–14. Left wall: Oscar Murillo, 1/2, 2014. Background: Kerstin Brätsch, Sigi’s Erben (Agate Psychics), 2012. Photo: John Wronn.

Lloyd Wise on “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World”

Sahej Rahal, Harbinger (detail), 2014, clay, polyurethane, hay, found objects, dimensions variable.

Murtaza Vali on the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Mike Nelson, Gang of Seven, 2013, mixed media. Installation view.

New York

Walter Robinson, Bidlo, 1984, acrylic on canvas, 30 × 30".

Normal, IL

Michelle Grabner on Walter Robinson

View of “Frances Scholz,” 2014.

Los Angeles

Rochelle Goldberg, Pit Organ (detail), 2014, ceramic, clear resin, fiber optics, LED lights, steel, mirror-finished cans, water, 22 × 45 × 49".

Vancouver

Aaron Peck on Rochelle Goldberg

Nick Mauss, nervous system, 2014, powder-coated steel, acrylic, 65 × 86".

London

View of “Eoin Mc Hugh,” 2014–15. Foreground: the ground itself is kind, black butter, 2014. Background: what we know in what we see, 2014.

Dublin

Declan Long on Eoin Mc Hugh

David Malek, Scanner, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 27 1/2 × 19 1/2".

Paris

Mara Hoberman on David Malek

Nikita Kadan, Limits of Responsibility (detail), 2014, metal, painted wood, soil, vegetables, thirty-six color slides, three book facsimiles, dimensions variable.

Berlin

Marieta Chirulescu, Untitled, 2014, ink-jet print and gesso on canvas, 68 7/8 × 45 1/4".

Lingen, Germany

Jens Asthoff on Marieta Chirulescu

Wu Tsang, DAMELO TODO // ODOT OLEMAD (Gimme Everything // Gnihtyreve Emmig), 2010/2014, production still from the 25-minute color video (with sound) component of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising wood, mirrors, carpet, and a bench.

Zurich

Daniel Horn on Wu Tsang

View of “Paolo Icaro,” 2014–15. Foreground: Cumulo rete (Aggregation Net), 1968. Background: Foto, nicchie (Photos, Niches), 1974.

Milan

Paola Nicolin on Paolo Icaro

View of “Seb Patane,” 2014–15.

Naples

Pier Paolo Pancotto on Seb Patane

Nina Canell, Brief Syllables (detail), 2014, telecommunication and electricity cables, steel, wood, dimensions variable. From the series “Brief Syllables,” 2014–.

Stockholm

Neringa Černiauskaitė on Nina Canell

Jochen Lempert, Untitled (Feathers), 2014, gelatin silver print, 20 × 15 3/4".

Barcelona

Javier Hontoria on Jochen Lempert

Julije Knifer, Meander 2, 1960, oil on canvas, 40 × 53 1/2".

Zagreb, Croatia

Kate Sutton on Julije Knifer

View of “Akram Zaatari,” 2014–15. From left: Untitled, 2014; Time Capsule, Skeleton, 2013; Ain El-Mir 23.11.2002. Photo: Cengiz Tanc.

Istanbul

Mine Haydaroğlu on Akram Zaatari

View of “Alex Hubbard and Jon Pestoni,” 2014. Left: Alex Hubbard, Untitled, 2014. Right: Jon Pestoni, Split Beaver, 2014.

Athens

Stephanie Bailey on Alex Hubbard and Jon Pestoni

Feng Lin, One Million a Year Plan, 2013, mixed media, dimensions variable. From “Unlived by What Is Seen,” 2014–15.

Beijing

Fiona He on “Unlived by What Is Seen”

Shambhavi Singh, Rehat/Water Garland, 2014, iron, rust, 47' × 2' 7“ × 6”.

New Delhi

Ryan Holmberg on Shambhavi Singh

Melanie Smith, Untitled, 2014, collage, 17 × 11".

São Paulo

Kaira M. Cabañas on Melanie Smith

Cristiano Lenhardt, Pintura–escalador (Painting–Escalator), 2014, two ink-jet prints, each 15 1/4 × 11 1/4".

Recife, Brazil

Sarah Lookofsky on Cristiano Lenhardt