TABLE OF CONTENTS

February 2016

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Cover: Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil, Sue, ca. 1949, exposed blueprint paper, 69 3/4 × 41 5/8". © Susan Weil and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

February 2016, Vol. 54, No. 6

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COLUMNS

PASSAGES

Anne Dressen on Carol Rama

Nicolas Provost, Gravity, 2007, HD video, color, sound, 6 minutes 17 seconds.

ON SITE

J. Hoberman on “Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact”

Mark Fell and Luke Fowler, To the Editor of Amateur Photographer, 2014, digital video, color, sound, 69 minutes. Archival photograph of the Pavilion, Leeds, UK.

FILM

Siona Wilson on Mark Fell and Luke Fowler’s To the Editor of Amateur Photographer

Benjamin Crotty, Fort Buchanan, 2015, 16 mm transferred to HD video, color, sound, 65 minutes. Roger (Andy Gillet) and Roxy (Iliana Zabeth).

FILM

Melissa Anderson on Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan

Peggy Guggenheim with Constantin Brancusi’s Maiastra, Paris, ca. 1940. Photo: André Rogi.

BOOKS

Prudence Peiffer on Francine Prose’s Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern

Ray Eames, study for “An Exhibition for Modern Living,” 1949, graphite, paper, and photocollage on paper, 8 1/4 × 11 3/4". © Eames Office, LLC.

DESIGN

Alena J. Williams on “The World of Charles and Ray Eames”

Dominikus Baur, Daniel Goddemeyer, Lev Manovich, and Moritz Stefaner, On Broadway, 2014, mixed media. Installation view, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2015.

MEDIA

Martha Buskirk on “Data Drift”

Still from Justin Bieber’s 2015 video Children, directed by Parris Goebel. From Purpose: The Movement, 2015.

MUSIC

Cat Kron on Justin Bieber

VAULT

Linda Rodriguez on “Kongo: Power and Majesty”

top ten

Hanne Mugaas

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Laura Poitras, My Country, My Country, 2006, digital video, color, sound, 90 minutes.

MOVING TARGETS: THE WORK OF LAURA POITRAS

Stephen Squibb

Still from Taus Makhacheva’s Tightrope, 2015, HD video, color, sound, 73 minutes 3 seconds.

OPENINGS: TAUS MAKHACHEVA

Kate Sutton

Jean Epstein, Coeur fidèle (The Faithful Heart), 1923, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 84 minutes. Marie (Gina Manès).

THINKING THROUGH CINEMA: THE FILMS OF JEAN EPSTEIN

Stuart Liebman

John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015, three-channel HD video, color, sound, 48 minutes. Installation view, Central Pavilion, Venice, 2015. From the 56th Venice Biennale. Photo: Cristiano Corte. © Smoking Dogs Films.

WAVES OF MIGRATION: THE RECENT WORK OF JOHN AKOMFRAH

Nora M. Alter

Robert Rauschenberg holding a blueprint by Susan Weil and himself in their West Ninety-Fifth Street apartment, New York, 1951. Photo: Wallace Kirkland/Wallace Kirkland papers, [0062_0L11C_0004], Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. © Susan Weil and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

LOST AND FOUND: SUSAN WEIL AND ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG’S BLUEPRINTS

Michael Lobel

Public Fiction’s storefront sign, Los Angeles, 2014.

SYSTEMS OF BELIEF: PUBLIC FICTION

Michael Ned Holte

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View of “Frank Stella: A Retrospective,” 2015–16. From left: The Grand Armada (IRS-6, 1X), 1989; K.81 combo (K.37 and K.43) large size, 2009; Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III), 1970. Photo: Chandra Glick. © Frank Stella/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Thomas Crow on Frank Stella

View of “The Shadow of the Avant-Garde: Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters,” 2015–16. Foreground: Works by William Edmondson. Background: Works by Alfred Wallis. Photo: Jens Nober.

Lynne Cooke on “The Shadow of the Avant-Garde: Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters”

View of “Ulrike Müller: The old expressions are with us always and there are always others,” 2015–16. From left: Rug (gato de cochinilla), 2015; Rug (el primer gato), 2015. Photo: Laurent Ziegler.

Kerstin Stakemeier on Ulrike Müller

View of “Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings,” 2015. From left: Bonhomme de Bois, 1961–62; Untitled, 1964; Untitled (Cheim Some Bells), 1964; The sky is blue, the grass is green, 1972 (panels reversed in installation); Closed Territory, 1973. Photo: Markus Tretter. © Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Katy Siegel on Joan Mitchell

Takashi Murakami, The 500 Arhats, 2012, acrylic on canvas mounted on board. Installation view. From the White Tiger panel.

Hiroko Ikegami on Takashi Murakami

Kate Newby, Two aspirins a vitamin C tablet and some baking soda, 2015, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: Fredrik Nilson.

Los Angeles

Cinthia Marcelle, em entre para perante (in between for before), 2015, acrylic paint on fabric, shoelaces on hardware, dimensions variable. Photo: Jaime Acioli.

Rio de Janeiro

Sérgio B. Martins on Cinthia Marcelle

Frank Auerbach, Head of J.Y.M. II, 1984–85, oil on canvas, 26 × 24".

London

View of “B. Wurtz,” 2015–16. From left: Untitled (Autobiographical Sculpture), 1972; Untitled (Lampshade), 1986; Untitled, 2012. Photo: John McKenzie.

Gateshead, UK

Sherman Sam on B. Wurtz

View of “Korea Now!,” 2015–16. Photo: Luc Boegly.

Paris

Rose Wylie, Theatre Painting (Black Spots), 2015, diptych, oil on canvas, overall 6' × 10' 6 3/4".

Berlin

Martin Herbert on Rose Wylie

Inge Krause, Untitled, 2015, pastel chalk on canvas, 11 3/4 × 11 3/4".

Hamburg

Jens Asthoff on Inge Krause

Magnus Plessen, The Blue Bench, 2015, oil on canvas, 49 1/4 × 76 3/4".

Zurich

Daniel Horn on Magnus Plessen

View of “Luciano Fabro,” 2015–16. Photo: Agostino Osio.

Milan

Marco Meneguzzo on Luciano Fabro

Natalia Załuska, Untitled, 2015, mixed media on canvas, 11 3/4 × 9 1/2".

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Natalia Załuska

View of “Igor Jesus,” 2015–16. From left: De costas voltadas (Back to Back), 2015; Domingo (Sunday), 2015; Polaroid, 2015; Polaroid, 2015. Photo: António Jorge Silva.

Lisbon

Alexandre Melo on Igor Jesus

Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala, Drawing 14, 2015, oil, pencil, and ink on cotton paper, 22 1/2 × 30".

Beirut

Stephanie Bailey on Wael Shawky

View of “Kwan Sheung Chi,” 2015.

Taipei, Taiwan

Christina Li on Kwan Sheung Chi

View of “Dale Frank,” 2015. Photo: Zara Sigglecow.

Melbourne

Jane Rankin-Reid on Dale Frank

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Phantom (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name), 2013–15, still from a virtual-reality environment shot using Oculus Rift, OptiTrack cameras developed by ScanLAB Projects, London, infinite duration.

São Paulo

Tobi Maier on Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

View of “Jason Simon,” 2015. On floor: 2LGA5, 2015. On wall, from left: Production, 2015; Nobodys Road, 2015. Photo: Chris Austin.

New York

Ajay Kurian, Prep, 2015, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Baltimore

Colby Chamberlain on Ajay Kurian

Alex Bag, Untitled (The Van [Redux]) (detail), 2015, two-channel HD video, color, 28 minutes.

Miami

Annie Godfrey Larmon on Alex Bag

View of “Assisted,” 2015–16.

Chicago

Nicolas Linnert on “Assisted”

Sophie Calle, “Cash Machine” (detail), 1991–2003, two gelatin silver prints, each 11 3/4 × 15 3/4".

San Francisco

Julia Bryan-Wilson on Sophie Calle