TABLE OF CONTENTS

October 2016

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Cover: Slide for Lillian Schwartz’s Proxima Centauri, 1968. © Lillian F. Schwartz.

October 2016, Vol. 55, No. 2

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COLUMNS

LETTERS

Opposite Sexes

Peter Hutton, New York Portrait, Part II, 1980–81, 16 mm, black-and-white, silent, 15 minutes. © Estate of Peter Hutton.

PASSAGES

Luc Sante on Peter Hutton

PASSAGES

Sérgio B. Martins on Tunga

PASSAGES

David Salle on Lisa Liebmann

Page from Artforum, April 1992. Lisa Liebmann, “Grand Elisions.” Page from Artforum, October 1987. Lisa Liebmann, “Icons at Large: X Marks the Spot.”

PASSAGES

Linda Yablonsky on Lisa Liebmann

Julie Becker, Interior Corner #3, 1993, C-print, 35 × 27". From the series “Interior Corners,” 1993. © Julie Becker.

PASSAGES

Chris Kraus on Julie Becker

Screening of Gregory J. Markopoulos’s Eniaios, 1947–91, at the Temenos, Lyssaraia, Greece, July 3, 2016. Photo: Linda Levinson.

FILM

P. Adams Sitney on Temenos 2016

MEDIA

Isabel Flower on the sneaker market

Spread from Aidan Koch’s After Nothing Comes (Koyama Press, 2016). From The Dancer at Midnight, 2012.

BOOKS

Danica Novgorodoff on Aidan Koch’s After Nothing Comes

top ten

Nikolas Gambaroff

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PAINTING BY NUMBERS: THE ART OF LILLIAN SCHWARTZ

Rebekah Rutkoff

Eric Mack, Avonte, 2015, acrylic on moving blanket and felt blanket, elastic rope, metal grommets, 81 × 72 × 7". Installation view, Company Gallery, New York.

OPENINGS: ERIC MACK

Cat Kron

Sophia Al-Maria, Black Friday, 2016, digital video, color, sound, 16 minutes 36 seconds.

OPENINGS: SOPHIA AL-MARIA

Amy Taubin

Joe Bradley, Mother and Child, 2016, oil on canvas, 83 × 101".

CLOSE-UP: SCRAWL SPACE

Dan Nadel on Joe Bradley’s “Krasdale,” 2016

PROCESSIONAL ETHICS: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE’S MORE SWEETLY PLAY THE DANCE

Homi K. Bhabha

DONALD JUDD: NEWLY PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Flavin Judd, introduction

SCENE STEALER: JONATHAN BERGER TALKS TO JOHANNA FATEMAN ABOUT THE ART OF ELLEN CANTOR

PORTFOLIO: CARMEN HERRERA

Sarah K. Rich, introduction

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View of “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,” 2016. Photo: David Heald. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Noam M. Elcott on László Moholy-Nagy

Daniel R. Small, Excavation II, 2016–, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: Brian Forrest.

Jenni Sorkin on Made in L.A.

The Propeller Group, The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music, 2014, 5K video, color, sound, 21 minutes 15 seconds.

Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol on The Propeller Group

Muhamad Arabi, Mahmoud el Zohbi, 1950, gelatin silver print, 3 1/8 × 5 1/8".

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on “The Arab Nude”

Elaine Reichek, Desire/Dread/Despair, 2012, embroidery on linen, 26 1/4 × 26 3/4 × 1 1/4".

Los Angeles

View of “Linda Marrinon,” 2016.

Sydney

Toni Ross on Linda Marrinon

Vanessa Maltese, Capacity for Self Control, 2016, oil on panel, painted steel, plastic hair clip, 65 × 65 × 2".

Toronto

Alison Syme on Vanessa Maltese

Bhupen Khakhar, Bullet Shot in the Stomach, 2001, oil on canvas, 7 1/2 × 11 5/8".

London

Liam Gillick, Neural Mechanisms, 2016, birch plywood, two-pack lacquer–RAL 6018, mirror. Installation view. Photo: Ros Kavanagh.

Dublin

Declan Long on Liam Gillick

Jay DeFeo, Untitled (Tripod series), 1975, acrylic, graphite, grease pencil, collaged paper on vellum and paper, 23 1/4 × 19 5/8".

Paris

Natalie Czech, Paperdraft, 2015, ink-jet prints, resin form, glue, 46 × 31 3/4".

Altkirch, France

Jens Asthoff on Natalie Czech

Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2015, Epson UltraChrome K3 ink-jet print on linen, 10' 8" × 9'. Le Consortium.

Dijon/Vosne-Romanée, France/Paris

Riccardo Venturi on Wade Guyton

Paweł Althamer, MAMA I, 2016, clay, wristwatch, bracelet, knife, horn, textile, sand, earth, grass, wood, water, coal, plants, stone, glass, elephant skull, netting, seventeen zebra finches, grasshoppers, iPhone, camera. Installation view.

Berlin

Vittorio Brodmann, Anyone May Add More Testimony, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 17 3/4 × 21 5/8".

Bern, Switzerland

Adam Jasper on Vittorio Brodmann

Jeff Elrod, Sonora Lights, 2016, ink-jet print and acrylic on canvas, 90 × 70".

Milan

Sabrina Mezzaqui, I quaderni di Adriano (Hadrian’s Notebooks), 2016, twenty notebooks, wood-and-glass table; notebooks, each 8 × 9 3/4“; table, 29 1/2 × 44 3/8 × 44 5/8”.

Brescia, Italy

Alessandra Pioselli on Sabrina Mezzaqui and Paolo Novelli

Gabriel Lester, Robertas Narkus, Lisa Rosenblatt, and Freek Wambacq, Bermuda, 2016, mixed media. Installation view.

Amsterdam

Huib Haye van der Werf on Gabriel Lester

Song Dong, Father and Son in the Former Ancestral Temple, 1998, three-channel video, color, sound; 6 minutes, 11 minutes, 4 minutes 50 seconds. Installation view. From “An Exhibition About Exhibitions.” Photo: Zhang Ying.

Shenzhen

Mia Yu on “An Exhibition About Exhibitions”

Zhang Hui, Overgrown (Happy New Year), 2016, oil on canvas, 6' 6" × 13'.

Beijing

Guo Juan on Zhang Hui

Alair Gomes, Untitled, 1966–78, gelatin silver print, 12 × 8 7/8". From the series “Symphony of Erotic Icons,” 1966–78.

São Paulo

Alexandre Melo on Alair Gomes

A. R. Penck, Untitled (System Painting), 1966, oil on canvas, 42 3/4 × 37 1/2". © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

New York

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Potential Trust, 2012–14, neon on wood panel, 37 1/2 × 60".

Detroit

Matthew Biro on Esther Shalev-Gerz

Tayeba Begum Lipi, My Daughter’s Cot, 2012, stainless steel razor blades, stainless steel, 40 × 48 × 30". From “The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman.”

East Lansing, Michigan

Murtaza Vali on “The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman”