TABLE OF CONTENTS

April 2015

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Cover: Mishka Henner, Wrangler Feedyard, Tulia, Texas (detail), 2013, ink-jet print, 59 × 73 1/4". From the series “Feedlots,” 2012–13.

April 2015, Vol. 53, No. 8

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COLUMNS

Olivier Assayas, Clouds of Sils Maria, 2014, 35 mm, color, sound, 123 minutes. Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) and Valentine (Kristen Stewart).

FILM

Melissa Anderson on Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria

Guillaume Nicloux, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 92 minutes. Michel Houellebecq.

FILM

Tim Griffin on Guillaume Nicloux’s Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

Ken Jacobs, The Guests, 2013, 35 mm transferred to 3-D digital video, black-and-white and color, sound, 73 minutes.

FILM

Tony Pipolo on Ken Jacobs’s The Guests

Nick Broomfield, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 110 minutes. Nick Broomfield and Pam Brooks.

FILM

Gary Dauphin on Nick Broomfield’s Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Cartoon by Cabu depicting Marine Le Pen and Michel Houellebecq, as published in Charlie Hebdo, January 7, 2015.

BOOKS

Elisabeth Ladenson on Michel Houellebecq’s new novel

BOOKS

Glenn O’Brien on Jean-Michel Basquiat

Spread from Trisha Baga’s The Great Pam, 2014, bound paper, 8 × 10 1/2".

BOOKS

Elisabeth Sherman on Trisha Baga’s The Great Pam

Mimian Hsu, Retrato familiar en Helvética (Family Portrait in Helvetica), 2014, adhesive vinyl. Installation view, TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica. Photo: Daniela Morales Lisac.

LETTER FROM CENTRAL AMERICA

Jens Hoffmann on art in Costa Rica

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Lena Henke

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Ahmad Mūsā–, huntsmen in a winter landscape, ca. 1370, gouache on paper, 15 3/4 × 11 3/4".

THE INNOCENCE OF THE IMAGE: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PROPHET IN THE ISLAMIC TRADITION

Nasser Rabbat

Olga Balema, Long Arm (detail), 2013, latex, aluminum, 11' 5 3/4“ × 4' 11” × 3' 3 3/8".

OPENINGS: OLGA BALEMA

Quinn Latimer

Charles Lim, SEA STATE 5: drift (stay still now to move), 2012, digital video, color, sound, 7 minutes 19 seconds.

CLOSE UP: FLOATING WORLD

Pauline J. Yao on Charles Lim’s “SEA STATE,” 2005–

Anri Sala, The Present Moment, 2014, HD digital video (color, sound, 21 minutes 30 seconds), nineteen-channel sound installation. Installation view, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Photo: Jens Webber.

1000 WORDS: ANRI SALA

Mark Godfrey

Cover of Charlie Hebdo, September 3, 1973. Jean-Marc Reiser.

TAKEN LIBERTIES: CHARLIE HEBDO

Yve-Alain Bois

Faith Holland, Lick Suck Screen 2, 2014, online digital video, color, sound, 1 minute 11 seconds. From “Body Anxiety.”

WOMEN ON THE VERGE

ART, FEMINISM, AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Mishka Henner, Wrangler Feedyard, Tulia, Texas, 2013, ink-jet print, 59 × 73 1/4". From the series “Feedlots,” 2012–13.

THE SMART LANDSCAPE: INTELLIGENT ARCHITECTURE

Rem Koolhaas

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Kazimir Malevich, Black Quadrilateral, n.d., oil on canvas, 6 3/4 × 9 1/2".

Sarah K. Rich on “Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015”

Bill Lynch, Untitled (Branches, White Background), n.d., oil on wood, 48 × 43 1/2".

London

View of “Simon Fujiwara,” 2015. From left: Fabulous Beasts (Ocelot), 2015; Ich (2x7L Tangem 7 Trennsystem), 2015; Masks (Merkel E. 10, 1), 2015.

Mexico City

Jacob Proctor on Simon Fujiwara

View of “Dora Budor,” 2015. From left: The Host, or You, 2014; Mental Parasite Retreat 1, 2014; The Architect, Slowly Crawling, 2014.

Paris

Jan Peter Hammer, Tilikum, 2013–15, HD video, color, sound, 45 minutes.

Berlin

Susanne M. Winterling, Über Gewissheit (Screen Version) (On Certainty [Screen Version]), 2014, digital print on Plexiglas, aluminum, 14 1/4 × 20 × 3/8". From the series “Über Gewissheit (Screen Version),” 2014.

Stuttgart, Germany

Sven Beckstette on Susanne M. Winterling

View of “Eddie Peake,” 2015.

Rome

Pier Paolo Pancotto on Eddie Peake

Adelita Husni-Bey, Politicians, 2014, C-print, 57 3/4 × 43 1/4". From the series “Agency-giochi di potere” (Agency Power Games), 2014.

Modica, Italy

Paola Nicolin on Adelita Husni-Bey

Sven Augustijnen, L’histoire est simple et édifiante: Une sélection d’articles parus dans Paris Match, première partie 1960–1972 (The Story Is Simple and Edifying: A Selection of Articles Published in Paris Match, Part One 1960–1972) (detail), 2014, eighty Paris Match magazines, dimensions variable.

Brussels

Adam Kleinman on Sven Augustijnen

Christoph Rütimann, Waagenbank (Bench of Scales), 1996, 122 scales, MDF, 1' 6 1/2“ × 13' 5 3/8” × 1' 3/4".

Zurich

Hans Rudolf Reust on Christoph Rütimann

Carlos Irijalba, Pendo 1, 2014, steel, resin, fiberglass, stone powder, 35 1/2 × 82 3/4 × 23 3/4".

Madrid

Javier Hontoria on Carlos Irijalba

Marwa Arsanios, Olga’s Notes, all those restless bodies, 2014, HD video, color, sound, 24 minutes.

Lisbon

Markéta Stará Condeixa on Marwa Arsanios

Taysir Batniji, Untitled (Imperfect Lovers), 2013, neon, 41 × 19 3/4 × 41 × 2".

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Taysir Batniji and Anna Boghiguian

Wilfredo Prieto, Safe Box, 2014, mixed media, 29 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 28 3/4".

Tel Aviv

Nuit Banai on Wilfredo Prieto and Ariel Schlesinger

Tseng Kwong Chi, New York, New York, 1979, gelatin silver print, 20 × 16". From the series “East Meets West,” 1979–89.

Hong Kong

Stephanie Bailey on Tseng Kwong Chi

Lee Kwang-Ho, Untitled 6901, 2013, oil on canvas, 8' 6" × 16'.

Seoul

Shinyoung Chung on Lee Kwang-Ho

Yang Fudong, An Estranged Paradise, 1997–2002, video, 35-mm film transferred to DVD, black-and-white, sound, 76 minutes.

Singapore

Robin Peckham on Yang Fudong

Rupali Patil, Eco-echo, 2014, watercolor on paper, 42 × 59".

Mumbai

Ryan Holmberg on Rupali Patil

View of “Call and Response,” 2015.

New York

Jaime Davidovich, Outreach: The Changing Role of the Art Museum, 1978. Installation view.

Chicago

Jacob Proctor on Jaime Davidovich

Angel Oloshove, The Feminine Mystique, 2015, clay, glaze, 10 1/2 × 7 × 4".

Houston

Andy Campbell on Angel Oloshove

Liz Magic Laser, The Thought Leader, 2015, video, color, sound, 9 minutes 22 seconds. Alex Ammerman.

Los Angeles

Douglas Coupland, Gorgon High-Tech Japanese Trendy Emo Tomorrow Boy, 2014, acrylic on ink-jet print, 49 × 37". From the series “Deep Face,” 2014.

Toronto

Bryne McLaughlin on Douglas Coupland