TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summer 2015

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Cover: Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, 1972, video, black-and-white, sound, 17 minutes 24 seconds. Photo: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Summer 2015, Vol. 53, No. 10

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COLUMNS

BOOKS

David Salle, Ann Temkin on Summer Reading

BOOKS

Hal Foster, Aaron Flint Jamison, Roxane Gay, Eileen Myles, Shumon Basar, Carolee Schneemann on Summer Reading

Spread from Richard McGuire’s Here (Pantheon, 2014).

BOOKS

Stephen Burt on Richard McGuire’s Here

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, The Tribe, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 132 minutes. Svetka (Roza Babiy), Anya (Yana Novikova), and King (Olexandr Osadchyi).

FILM

James Quandt on Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe

Christian Petzold, Phoenix, 2014, 35 mm transferred to digital video, color, sound, 98 minutes. Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld) and Nelly (Nina Hoss).

FILM

Michael Wood on Christian Petzold’s Phoenix

FILM

J. Hoberman on Edward Owens

Pedro Costa, Cavalo dinheiro (Horse Money), 2014, digital video, color, sound, 104 minutes. Ventura.

FILM

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Pedro Costa’s Horse Money

Still from Wolfgang Tillmans’s Book for Architects, 2014, two-channel digital video, color, silent, approx. 40 minutes.

ARCHITECTURE

Julian Rose on Wolfgang Tillmans’s Book for Architects

PERFORMANCE

Claire Bishop on Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

SLANT

Michelle M. Wright on the physics of Black art

Page detail from Artforum, October 1999. Section of time line compiled by Liza Kirwin.

BACK ISSUES

Cynthia Carr on the October 1999 issue of Artforum

top ten

Suzanne Ciani

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THE REST IS SILENCE: THE ART OF AGNES MARTIN

Anne M. Wagner

Glenn Ligon

Molly Warnock

Matt Saunders

Prudence Peiffer

Jo Baer

Christina Rosenberger

Robert Indiana

Catherine de Zegher

Dorothea Rockburne

View of “Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals,” 2014–15, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. From left: Panel One (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962; Panel Two (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962; Panel Three (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962. As seen with colored digital projection. Photo: Kate Lacey. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

LIGHT REPAIRS: A ROUNDTABLE ON THE RESTORATION OF MARK ROTHKO’S HARVARD MURALS

Yve-Alain Bois, Harry Cooper, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Ken Okiishi, R. H. Quaytman, David Reed, Jeffrey Weiss, and Michelle Kuo

Photocollage created by a Scientologist artist and published in Monster magazine, mid-twentieth century.

PORTFOLIO

Tony Oursler

Still from Joan Jonas’s Vertical Roll, 1972, video, black-and-white, sound, 19 minutes 38 seconds. Photo: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

DOUBLE TAKES: THE ART OF JOAN JONAS

Pamela M. Lee

Still from Joan Jonas’s Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, 1972, video, black-and-white, sound, 17 minutes 24 seconds. Photo: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

NOTES ON VAMP: JOAN JONAS’S ORGANIC HONEY’S VISUAL TELEPATHY

Johanna Fateman

THOSE OBSCURE OBJECTS OF DESIRE:

THE USES AND ABUSES OF OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND SPECULATIVE REALISM Andrew Cole

Joris Hoefnagel, Maltese cross, mussel, and ladybird (detail), 1591–96, watercolor, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment, 6 5/8 x 4 7/8". Verso of a page from Mira calligraphiae monumenta, 1561–96. Photo: The Getty Center, Los Angeles/Open Content Program.

MATERIAL WORLD: AN INTERVIEW WITH BERNHARD SIEGERT

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

THE NON-CONFORMIST: THE ARCHITECTURE OF LINA BO BARDI

Barry Bergdoll

View of “Alex Da Corte: Die Hexe” (The Witch), 2015, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York. Act 2, Scene 1 (rocking chair), 2015. Photo: John Bernardo.

OPENINGS: ALEX DA CORTE

Annie Godfrey Larmon

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View of “Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga,” 2015, Dallas Museum of Art. From left: Kazuo Shiraga, Kan’uncho, 1984; Kazuo Shiraga, Fuso, 1986; Kazuo Shiraga, Imayo Ranbu, 2000. Photo: Chad Redmon.

Joan Kee on Kazuo Shiraga

View of “Parviz Tanavoli,” 2015. Background, from left: Big Heech Lovers, 2007; Twisted Heech, 2007. Foreground, from left: Horizontal Heech Lovers, 2008; Standing Heech Lovers, 2007. Photo: Charles Mayer.

Media Farzin on Parviz Tanavoli

View of “Transfigurations: The Sculpture of Mrinalini Mukherjee,” 2015. From left: Van Raja, 1991–94; Netty’s Green, 2000; Untitled, 2000; Palm Scape II, 2013. Photo: Ram Rahman.

Murtaza Vali on Mrinalini Mukherjee

Robert Kinmont, 16 Dirt Roads, 2014, copper, dirt, 3" × 12' × 5'.

Zurich

Adam Jasper on Robert Kinmont

Anna-Bella Papp, Untitled, 2014, clay, 12 1/8 × 11 1/8 × 1 1/8".

London

View of “Simone Fattal,” 2015.

Paris

Alicja Kwade, Etwas Abwesendes, dessen Anwesenheit erwartet wurde (Something Absent Whose Presence Had Been Expected), 2015, marble, dimensions variable.

Berlin

Carola Dertnig, . . VANILLA FUDGE . . , 2015, photo on primed canvas, 57 × 55".

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Carola Dertnig

View of “John Armleder,” 2015. Photo: Roberto Marossi.

Milan

Marco Meneguzzo on John Armleder

View of “Peter Linde Busk,” 2015. From left: Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at, 2014; No light, but rather darkness visible, 2015; Fear the Goat from the Front, the Horse from the Rear and Man from All Sides, 2014.

Rome

Pier Paolo Pancotto on Peter Linde Busk

View of “Tobias Zielony,” 2015. From left: Vele di Scampia (The Sails of Scampia), 2009; Kalandia Kustom Kar Kommandos, 2014; Big Sexyland, 2008.

Naples

Eugenio Viola on Tobias Zielony

View of “Taocheng Wang,” 2015. From left: Vlieland—A Home Made Travel MV Series, 2015; Terschelling—A Home Made Travel MV Series, 2015; Ameland—A Home Made Travel MV Series, 2015.

Amsterdam

Hans den Hartog Jager on Taocheng Wang

View of “Frederick Kiesler,” 2015.

Stockholm

Ronald Jones on Frederick Kiesler

Jonathan Meese, BUBBEL DE BABE, PULL PULLI-PULL-PULLSNS’ VOLLE PULLE, 2014–15, oil and acrylic on canvas, 6' 11“ × 13' 10”.

Antwerp

Jos Van den Bergh on Jonathan Meese

Mathias Goeritz, Torres de Ciudad Satélite (Towers of Satellite City), 1957, wood, paint, dimensions variable.

Madrid

Kaira M. Cabañas on Mathias Goeritz

View of “Gabriel Pericàs,” 2014–15. Photo: Mirari Echavarri.

Vigo, Spain

Javier Hontoria on Gabriel Pericàs

Nadia Kaabi-Linke, A Short Story of Salt and Sun, 2013, silk paper, wax, Chinese ink, and varnish on linen, 90 1/2 × 55".

Dubai

Stephanie Bailey on Nadia Kaabi-Linke

Ian Woo, Can You Hear Us?, 2015, acrylic on linen, 98 1/2 × 78 3/4".

Singapore

Sherman Sam on Ian Woo

Firenze Lai, Human Chain, 2014, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 × 27 1/2". From “A Hundred Years of Shame: Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations.”

Hong Kong

Stephanie Bailey on “A Hundred Years of Shame”

View of “Matheus Rocha Pitta,” 2015.

São Paulo

Sergio Martins on Matheus Rocha Pitta

Gaetano Pesce, Foam Table, 2014, urethane foam, metal, PVC, 29 1/2 × 58 1/4 × 102 1/2".

New York

Antoni Tàpies, Sóc terra (I Am Earth), 2004, mixed media on canvas, 69 × 79".

Miami

Karen Butler on Antoni Tàpies

Katy Grannan, Anonymous, Modesto, CA, 2014, ink-jet print, 58 1/4 × 44 1/2". From the series “The Ninety Nine,” 2011–.

Nashville

Rachel Teukolsky on Katy Grannan

Doris Salcedo, Plegaria Muda (Silent Prayer), 2008–10, wood, concrete, earth, grass. Installation view.

Chicago

Kelly Akashi, Figure oO, 2015, wood, acrylic latex paint, liquid emulsion, pigmented wax, blown pigmented glass, 8' 1" × 12' × 2'. From “SOGTFO,” 2015.

Los Angeles