TABLE OF CONTENTS

May 2016

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Cover: Heji Shin, m- (detail), 2016, triptych, C-print, each 15 1/2 × 11".

May 2016, Vol. 54, No. 9

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COLUMNS

PASSAGES

Susanna Mälkki on Pierre Boulez

PASSAGES

George E. Lewis on Pierre Boulez

Jacques Rivette, Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Céline and Julie Go Boating), 1974, 35 mm, color, sound, 192 minutes. Céline (Juliet Berto) and Julie (Dominique Labourier).

PASSAGES

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Rivette

Cover of Blowfly’s Superblowfly (Henry Stone Music, 2006).

PASSAGES

Cameron Jamie on Blowfly

Shinique Smith, Forgiving Strands, 2015–16. Installation view. Photo: Brian Forrest.

ON SITE

Rhea Anastas on “Revolution in the Making” at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel

Studio Milou, National Gallery, 2015, Singapore.

ARCHITECTURE

Philip Ursprung on the new Singapore National Gallery

Poster for Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, 1941.

BOOKS

Geoffrey O’Brien on David Bordwell’s The Rhapsodes

Unica Zürn, Untitled, 1966, ink on paper, 9 7/8 × 7 1/2". Photo: Ubu Gallery, New York & Galerie Berinson, Berlin.

BOOKS

Annie Godfrey Larmon on Unica Zürn’s Trumpets of Jericho

top ten

Peter Shire

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Summer Exhibitions

45 shows worldwide

Bruce Conner, Bombhead, 2002, acrylic on ink-jet print, 31 3/4 × 25 1/8". © Estate of Bruce Conner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Bruce Conner

Nikolai Tomsky’s Lenin monument, Berlin, September 9, 2015. Photo: Wulf Fa.

Vault

“Unveiled: Berlin and Its Monuments”

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Heji Shin, Jeany 1, 2016, C-print, 65 × 45".

Heji Shin

Josephine Pryde, All-in-one I, 2014, C-print, 14 1/4 × 10 3/4". From the series “Isosceles at Ahlbeck,” 2014.

Josephine Pryde

David Sims, editorial photograph for “London, January 11th–13th, 2016,” Self Service, Spring/Summer 2016.

David Sims

Ryan McGinley

Roe Ethridge, Chanel Necklace for Gentlewoman, 2014, C-print, 34 3/8 × 51 3/8".

Roe Ethridge

Petra Collins, editorial photograph for “Printed Matter,” Elle, August 2015.

Petra Collins

Laurie Simmons, Giorgio Armani Waltzing Figures, 1985, Cibachrome, 60 × 42 1/2". From the series “Fake Fashion,” 1983–85.

Laurie Simmons

Peter Lindbergh, editorial photograph for “Angels,” Harper’s Bazaar, December 1993.

Peter Lindbergh

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach), 1968, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 93 minutes. Johann Sebastian Bach (Gustav Leonhardt). Photo: Austrian Film Museum.

A CINEMA OF RESISTANCE: THE FILMS OF JEAN-MARIE STRAUB AND DANIÈLE HUILLET

P. Adams Sitney

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Sicilia!, 1999, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 66 minutes. Mother (Angela Nugara).

OPERATIC TENOR: STRAUB AND HUILLET’S SICILIA!

James Quandt

View of Yan Xing’s Caucasus Bureau, 2015, ready-made objects, found prints, found photographs, found objects, mixed media.

OPENINGS: YAN XING

Brian Dillon

Olu Odukoya, cover art for Modern Matter, September 2015. Photo: Blommers & Schumm.

Olu Odukoya

Michele Abeles, Watches #1251, 2014, ink-jet print, 43 × 29". From the series “Watches,” 2014.

Michele Abeles

Mark Borthwick, photograph for Bless, 2000.

Mark Borthwick

Philip-Lorca diCorcia, editorial photograph for “Stranger in Paradise,” W, September 2000.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Shea Spencer

Viviane Sassen, Red Leg Totem, 2014, digital C-print, 23 5/8 × 15 3/4". From the series “Umbra,” 2014.

Viviane Sassen

Collier Schorr, Nico (Buzzcut) London/New York, 2015, ink-jet print on linen, dimensions variable.

Collier Schorr

Mark Borthwick, Days Off, 1995, Cibachrome, dimensions variable.

THE NEW LOOK:

ART AND FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

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View of “Electronic Superhighway (2016–1966),” 2016. Photo: Stephen White.

Kerstin Stakemeier on “Electronic Superhighway (2016–1966)”

Charlotte Moorman performing Jim McWilliams’s Sky Kiss, 1968, 6th Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival, Central Park West, New York, September 14, 1968. Photo: Peter Moore. © Barbara Moore/Licensed by VAGA, NY.

Jacob Proctor on “A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s”

Calvin Marcus, Automatic Drawing #18, 2015, oil crayon and Flashe paint on linen, 48 × 96". From the series “Automatic Drawings,” 2014–.

Los Angeles

View of “Maria Taniguchi,” 2016. All works Untitled, 2016.

London

Colette Brunschwig, Untitled, 2016, india ink on paper, 66 1/4 × 44 3/4".

Paris

Emmett Williams, Hello Out There . . . , 1989, silk screen on cloth, paint, 58 × 70 1/4".

Berlin

Aaron Angell, Behive Scheif, Wig, Ingot, 2016, painted glass, 27 1/2 × 39 1/2".

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Aaron Angell

View of “Cordula Ditz,” 2016. Foreground: One Uses Her Beauty for Love! One Uses Her Lure for Blood! (detail), 2016. Background, from left: Mirror, Mirror / Droopy Emoji (Helpless), 2016; Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (detail), 2016.

Hamburg

Jens Asthoff on Cordula Ditz

Edgar Honetschläger, Los Feliz, 2016, Super 8 and HD digital video transferred to 35 mm, color, sound, 105 minutes. 21er Haus.

Vienna

Sabine B. Vogel on Edgar Honetschläger

View of “Goshka Macuga,” 2016. Foreground: Goshka Macuga, To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, 2016. Background: Ettore Colla, Giocoliere, nr. 3 (Juggler, nr. 3), 1967–68. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani Sudio.

Milan

Yonamine, Pão nosso de cada Dia (Our Daily Bread), 2016, toasted bread, nails, 11' 5 3/4“ × 26' 3”.

Lisbon

Alexandre Melo on Yonamine

Jakub Czyszczoń, Untitled, 2015, mixed media on linen, 23 3/4 × 19 3/4".

Warsaw

Sylwia Serafinowicz on Jakub Czyszczoń

Heman Chong, The Mysterious Island, 2016, wood, plastic, iron wire, silk, paint. Installation view.

Shanghai

Fiona He on Heman Chong

Asim Waqif, Puzzle for a Future Archaeologist, 2015–16, personal and found objects, polyeurethane foam. Installation view. Photo: Chandan Ahuja.

New Delhi

Jyoti Dhar on Asim Waqif

Luke Willis Thompson, Sucu Mate/Born Dead, 2016, concrete headstones. Installation view. Photo: Alex North.

Auckland

Anthony Byrt on Luke Willis Thompson

Marina Saleme, The Sheltering Sky 1, 2015, lenticular photograph, 39 1/2 × 30 1/4".

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Marina Saleme

Mónica Mayer, Lo normal (On Normality) (detail), 1978, offset and stamp-pad ink on paper, 25 1/2 × 28".

Mexico City

View of Tim Hawkinson, 2016. From left: Koruru, 2009; Laocoon, 2004. Photo: Tom Barratt.

New York

View of “Annie Besant,” 2015–16.

Chicago

William N. Copley, Lost Innocence, 1965, acrylic on canvas, 37 × 45".

Houston