TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2016

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January 2016, Vol. 54, No. 5

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COLUMNS

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Gas Tanks, 1983–1992 (detail), 2005, fifteen gelatin silver prints, overall 68 1/4 × 94 1/4".

PASSAGES

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on Hilla Becher

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Winding Towers, 1963–1992, 2003, fifteen gelatin silver prints, overall 68 1/4 × 94 1/4".

PASSAGES

Christopher Williams on Hilla Becher

PASSAGES

Candida Höfer on Hilla Becher

Omer Fast, Remainder, 2015, digital video, color, sound, 97 minutes. Right: Unnamed protagonist (Tom Sturridge). Production still. Photo: Chris Harris.

FILM

Erika Balsom on Omer Fast’s Remainder

Sandra Kogut, Parabolic People, 1991, video, color, sound, 40 minutes 42 seconds. Installation view.

MEDIA

Irene V. Small on Videobrasil

Six notes between Asger Jorn and Jacqueline de Jong, 1962–69.

BOOKS

Greil Marcus on Asger Jorn and Jacqueline de Jong

Wayne Koestenbaum, Lunar Bacchanal, 2014, oil, Flashe paint, acrylic, and acrylic marker on canvas, 26 × 28".

BOOKS

Brian Dillon on Wayne Koestenbaum’s Pink Trance Notebooks

TELEVISION

Annie Godfrey Larmon on UnREAL

Vintage postcards on view in “Museum of Stones,” 2015, Noguchi Museum, New York. Photo: Elizabeth Felicella.

ON SITE

Lauren O’Neill-Butler on “Museum of Stones”

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Dev Hynes

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SPRING 2016 EXHIBITIONS: 50 shows worldwide

Robert Mapplethorpe, Tim Scott, 1980, gelatin silver print, 14 × 14". © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

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“Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium”

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Chantal Akerman, No Home Movie, 2015, digital video, color, sound, 115 minutes.

Kathy Halbreich

Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey, 1972, 16 mm, color, silent, 63 minutes.

Nicola Mazzanti

Chantal Akerman with assistant director Marilyn Watelet after the US debut of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 1975, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976. Photo: Babette Mangolte.

Babette Mangolte

J. Hoberman

Chantal Akerman, Saute ma ville (Blow Up My Town), 1968, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 13 minutes. Chantal Akerman.

Amy Taubin

Concept rendering for Max Hooper Schneider’s untitled abandoned-shopping-mall project (work in progress), 2015.

1000 WORDS: MAX HOOPER SCHNEIDER

Beau Rutland

Alberto Burri, Grande bianco plastica (Large White Plastic), 1952, oil, tempera, fabric, burlap, thread, and Vinavil on canvas, 59 5/8 × 99". © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome.

BURNING MAN: ALBERTO BURRI AND ARTE POVERA

Anthony White

Andy Warhol, Lupe, 1965, 16 mm, color, sound, 72 minutes; double-screen projection, 36 minutes. Lupe (Edie Sedgwick). © The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

CLOSE-UP: THE MIRROR AND THE VAMP

David E. James on Andy Warhol’s Lupe (1965)

David Raymond Conroy, Broadway Flat (The Good Man), 2015, wood, privacy film, magnets, sandbags, wide-format print, plotter print, dehydrated Big Mac, dehydrated Quarter Pounder, lighters, Trappistes Rochefort bottle, 94 1/2 × 35 3/8 × 29 1/2".

OPENINGS: DAVID RAYMOND CONROY

Alexander Scrimgeour

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View of “International Pop,” 2015, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Foreground: Marisol, Dinner Date, 1963. Background, from left: Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #35, 1963; Ushio Shinohara, Drink More, 1964; Jasper Johns, Flags, 1965; Paul Thek, Meat Piece with Warhol Brillo Box, 1965. Photo: Gene Pittman.

David Joselit on “International Pop” and “The World Goes Pop”

Walid Raad, Footnote II, 2015, wallpaper, ink-jet prints, cast-urethane resin, paint. Installation view. Photo: Thomas Griesel.

David J. Roxburgh on Walid Raad

Walid Raad, Scratching on things I could disavow: Walkthrough, 2007–. Performance view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 5, 2015. Photo: Julieta Cervantes.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Walid Raad

View of Greater New York, 2015–16. From left: Judith Shea, Easy Does It, 2014; Jeffrey Gibson, Burn for You, 2014; Red Grooms, Mr. Universe, 1990; Mary Beth Edelson, Kali Bobbit, 1994; Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Kueens, 2009; John Ahearn, Maria and Her Mother, 1987. Photo: Pablo Enriquez.

Alex Kitnick on Greater New York

View of “Kiki Kogelnik: Fly Me to the Moon,” 2015. Photo: Benjamin Cosmo Westoby. © Kiki Kogelnik Foundation.

Sarah Wilson on Kiki Kogelnik

View of “Kerstin Brätsch: PELE’S CURSE,” 2015. From left: Unstable Talismanic Rendering_ Pele’s Curse Nr. 34, 2014; Unstable Talismanic Rendering_27, 2014. Photo: Michael Tropea.

Beau Rutland on Kerstin Brätsch

Ryan Mrozowski, Pair (Indeterminate Fruit), 2015, two parts, acrylic on linen, each 23 × 16".

New York

View of “Christopher Knowles,” 2015. From left: A Red Clock for Bob Dole, 2009; Untitled, 2012; A Blue Clock for Bill Clinton, 2009.

Philadelphia

Cat Kron on Christopher Knowles

Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Untitled (Piano Print, M), 2010, oil-based ink, ceramic, textile, found object, 54 × 55 × 2 1/2".

Portland, Oregon

Jon Raymond on Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Owen Kydd, The Boss, 2015, self-adhesive digital print, 64 × 95".

Vancouver

Aaron Peck on Owen Kydd

View of “Bill Jenkins and Chadwick Rantanen,” 2015.

Los Angeles

Verso of Gerhard Richter’s Sänger (Singer), 1965–66, showing a 1966 Color Chart painting, oil on canvas, 41 × 29 1/8".

London

Rachel de Joode, Soft Inquiry XII, 2015, ceramic and ink-jet print on PVC, 21 1/2 × 14 3/4 × 5 3/4".

Paris

View of “René Block,” 2015. Berlinische Galerie. Photo: Jens Ziehe.

Berlin

Emil Michael Klein, Untitled, 2014–15, oil on canvas, 74 3/4 × 49 3/4".

Zurich

Adam Jasper on Emil Michael Klein

Bruno Munari, Negativo-Positivo, 1990, oil on canvas, 56 × 56".

Milan

View of “Daniel Knorr,” 2015. Photo: Amedeo Benestante.

Naples

Eugenio Viola on Daniel Knorr

Jonas Dahlberg, Music Box, 2015, video, black-and-white, sound, 26 minutes 55 seconds. Installation view.

Stockholm

Fredrik Svensk on Jonas Dahlberg

Tiril Hasselknippe, Balcony (supplies), 2015, concrete, steel, water, food coloring, 35 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 20 1/2".

Copenhagen

Lars Bang Larsen on Tiril Hasselknippe

Józef Robakowski, Moskwa, 1986, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 × 6 7/8".

Warsaw

Astrid Mania on Józef Robakowski

Mokuma Kikuhata, A Song for Spring 3, 2015, oil on canvas, 8' 6" × 19'.

Tokyo

Andrew Maerkle on Mokuma Kikuhata

View of “Shi Qing,” 2015. Photo: Xianglin Luo.

Guangzhou

Yang Beichen on Shi Qing

Rummana Hussain, Crushed blue piece, 1992, indigo pigment, earth pigment, and charcoal on crushed paper, 19 × 29 3/4".

New Delhi

Meera Menezes on Rummana Hussain

Haleh Redjaian, Untitled, 2015, lithograph and thread on handwoven carpet, 43 3/4 × 27 1/2".

Dubai

Murtaza Vali on Haleh Redjaian

Evgeniy Antufiev, Untitled, 2015, wood, amber, fabric, dimensions variable.

Moscow

Stephanie Bailey on Evgeniy Antufiev

Matthys Gerber, Mata Hari, 1994, oil on canvas, 59 7/8 × 59 7/8".

Sydney

Kit Messham-Muir on Matthys Gerber

View of “Tadeusz Kantor,” 2015. Photo: Inês Correa.

São Paulo

Sylwia Serafinowicz on Tadeusz Kantor