TABLE OF CONTENTS

April 2016

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Cover: Monika Baer, on hold (detail), 2015, acrylic, ink, mirror, and oil on canvas, 72 5/8 × 53 1/8".

April 2016, Vol. 54, No. 8

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COLUMNS

LETTERS

Archival Print

Leslie MacDonald Gill, Cable & Wireless Great Circle Map, 1946, lithograph, 40 1/8 × 49 5/8".

Slant

Nasser Rabbat on “Artist and Empire”

Town Planning Associates (Josep Lluís Sert, Paul Lester Wiener, and Paul Schulz), Cidade dos Motores, 1947, Rio de Janeiro. Sketch.

BOOKS

Joan Ockman on the writings of Josep Lluís Sert

Alexander Sokurov, Francofonia, 2015, digital video, color, sound, 87 minutes.

FILM

Tony Pipolo on Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia

Alfred Hitchcock, Rope, 1948, 35 mm, color, sound, 80 minutes. David Kentley (Dick Hogan).

FILM

Douglas Crimp and Thomas Beard on “An Early Clue to the New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall”

Monika Baer, Überlieferung verpflichtet, 2014, acrylic and oil on canvas, 98 3/8 × 86 5/8".

PAINTING

Thomas Eggerer on Monika Baer

Forced Entertainment, (In) Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare, 2016. Performance view, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 25, 2016. Robin Arthur. Photo: Nathan Keay.

PERFORMANCE

Tom Sellar on Forced Entertainment

Cover of Matmos’s Ultimate Care II (Thrill Jockey, 2016).

MUSIC

Alan Licht on Matmos’s Ultimate Care II

View of “Splendeurs et misères: Images de la prostitution, 1850–1910” (Splendor and Misery: Images of Prostitution), 2015–16, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Foreground: Auguste Clésinger, Femme piquée par un serpent (Woman Bitten by a Snake), 1847. Background: Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. Photo: Sophie Boegly.

VAULT

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen on sex and art from Fragonard to Manet

top ten

Sahra Motalebi

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Ellsworth Kelly, Painting for a White Wall, 1952, oil on canvas, five joined panels, 23 1/2 × 71 1/4". © Ellsworth Kelly.

Molly Warnock

Laeh Glenn, Landscaping, 2015, oil on linen, 62 × 50".

OPENINGS: LAEH GLENN

Catherine Taft

Xavier Dolan, Mommy, 2014, 35 mm, color, sound, 139 minutes.

SQUARE FOOTAGE: THE RETURN OF THE ACADEMY RATIO IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

James Quandt

Maggie Lee, Mommy, 2015, digital video, color, sound, 56 minutes 23 seconds.

1000 WORDS: MAGGIE LEE

Wendy Yao

Thomas Bayrle’s Euro, 1998, as installed in the Albertinum’s Baselitz Room after Georg Baselitz’s work was removed and returned to the artist at his request, Dresden, Germany, 2015.

ON CULTURAL PROPERTY

Manuel Borja-Villel

Ellsworth Kelly, Yellow with Black and White, 2013, oil on canvas, three joined panels, 80 1/2 × 50". © Ellsworth Kelly.

Mary Heilmann

Ellsworth Kelly, Ground Zero, 2003, collage on newsprint, 11 1/2 × 13 1/2". © Ellsworth Kelly.

Terry Winters

Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum IV, 1967, oil on canvas, thirteen joined panels, 117 × 117". © Ellsworth Kelly.

Ann Temkin

Ellsworth Kelly, Colors for a Large Wall, 1951, oil on canvas, sixty-four joined panels, 94 1/2 × 94 1/2". © Ellsworth Kelly.

Richard Serra

Yve-Alain Bois

Ellsworth Kelly, Dark Blue Curve, 1995, oil on canvas, 3' 10“ × 15' 10”. © Ellsworth Kelly.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

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View of “Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better,” 2016. Upper tier: “Suddenly This Overview,” 1981–. Photo: David Heald.

Claire Bishop on Peter Fischli and David Weiss

Giacomo-Maria Giovannini (after Marc’Antonio Chiarini), centerpiece for the banquet of Senator Francesco Ratta, 1693, etching, 15 3/4 × 21 3/4". Frontispiece from Disegni del convito (Designs of the Banquet) (Bologna: Per li Peri, 1693).

Charlotte Birnbaum on “The Edible Monument: the Art of Food for Festivals”

Shara Hughes, We Windy, 2015, oil, acrylic, Flashe paint, and enamel on canvas, 68 × 60".

New York

Norman Lewis, American Totem, 1960, oil on canvas, 74 × 45".

Philadelphia

Murtaza Vali on Norman Lewis

Irving Penn, Sitting Enga Woman, 1970, platinum-palladium print, 19 5/8 × 19 3/8".

Washington, DC

Stephen Frailey on Irving Penn

Noam Rappaport, Twos, 2015, oil, acrylic, paper on canvas, 90 × 55 × 2".

San Francisco

Gwen Allen on Noam Rappaport

David Muenzer, Highlighter Ingots, 2015–16, highlighter ink, wood, latex paint, Plexiglas, 22 1/4 × 71 × 74 1/4" (melted). Photo: Veli-Matti Hoikka.

Los Angeles

View of “Daniel Keller and Nicholas Cheveldave,” 2016. From left: Nicholas Cheveldave, Pipe Dreams, 2015; Daniel Keller, AmazonGlobal-Priority Cairn Unit 2, 2013; Daniel Keller, Stack Relief (Kai Zuckerberg + Bushwick Kutcher), 2015. Photo: Damian Griffiths.

London

View of “Ciara Phillips,” 2016. Walls: Forms we recognise, 2016. On walls, from left: Emily reading, 2015; no title, 2016; Of more or less, 2015.

Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Declan Long on Ciara Phillips

Edgar Arceneaux, Chocolate Figures. One., 2016, handmade wooden shovel, chocolate, acrylic on muslin, and mirror on wood panel, wooden frame, 48 × 35 × 4 3/4".

Paris

Jef Cornelis, De Straat (The Street), 1972, 16 mm transferred to video, color and black-and-white, sound, 39 minutes 30 seconds.

Brussels

Jos Van den Bergh on Jef Cornelis

View of “Tatiana Trouvé,” 2016. Photo: Roman März.

Berlin

View of “Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr,” 2016. Photo: Simon Vogel.

Düsseldorf

Noemi Smolik on Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr

Adrian Paci, Sue proprie mani (Open by Addressee Only) (detail), 2015, five-channel HD video (color, sound, 17 minutes 25 seconds), twelve framed envelope facsimiles, three vitrines containing approximately one hundred letter facsimiles. Photo: Sabrina Brunner.

Zurich

Adam Jasper on Adrian Paci

View of “Anna Jermolaewa,” 2016. Foreground: Leninopad, 2015–16. Background: Five Year Plan, 1996–. Photo: Stefan Lux.

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Anna Jermolaewa

View of “Judith Hopf,” 2016. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.

Milan

Marco Tagliafierro on Judith Hopf

View of “Constant,” 2015–16. Foreground: Grote gele sector (Large Yellow Sector), 1967. Background: Entrée du labyrinth (Entrance to the Labyrinth), 1972. Photo: Joaquín Cortés.

Madrid

Karen Kurczynski on Constant

Donna Huanca, POLYSTYRENE’S BRACES, 2015. Performance view, December 6, 2015. Gabija Birina. Photo: Ansis Starks.

Riga, Latvia

Neringa Černiauskaitė on Donna Huanca

Peter Zimmermann, Untitled, 2015, epoxy on canvas, 78 3/4 × 118 1/8".

Istanbul

Mine Haydaroğlu on Peter Zimmermann

Marwan Rechmaoui, Blazon, 2015–, embroidery and appliqué on 420 flags, fifty-nine laser-cut-brass-on-stainless-steel shields. Installation view. Photo: Agop Kanledjian.

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Marwan Rechmaoui

Liang Yuanwei, 2015 No. 16, 2015, oil on linen, 55 1/4 × 47 1/4".

Xi'an, China

Lee Ambrozy on Liang Yuanwei

Tromarama, Intercourse, 2015, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 4 minutes 10 seconds.

Hong Kong

Stephanie Bailey on Tromorama

View of “Laercio Redondo,” 2015–16. Backdrop: Desvios (Detour) (detail), 2015. On screens: A casa de vidro (The Glass House), 1998/2008. Photo: Sergio Araujo.

Rio de Janeiro

Tobi Maier on Laercio Redondo