TABLE OF CONTENTS

February 2017

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Cover: Zhang Peili, Portraits of 2012, HD video, color, sound, 22 minutes 9 seconds.

February 2017, Vol. 55, No. 6

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COLUMNS

Julio Bracho, Distinto amanecer (Another Dawn), 1943, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 106 minutes. Julieta (Andrea Palma).

FILM

J. Hoberman on Julio Bracho

Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro, 2016, HD video, color and black-and-white, sound, 93 minutes. James “Spider” Martin’s featured archival photograph of state troopers and civil rights activists at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL, March 7, 1965.

FILM

Amy Taubin on Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro

The Young Pope, 2017–, still from a TV show on HBO. Season 1, episode 2. Center: Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law).

TELEVISION

Tim Griffin on HBO’s The Young Pope

Lucretia Tye Jasmine, Daybreak, ca. 1989, 16 mm, color and black-and-white, sound, 10 minutes. From Miranda July’s Joanie 4 Jackie, The Underwater Chainletter, 1996. From the series Chainletter Tapes, 1995–2007.

VIDEO

Miranda July and Julia Bryan-Wilson on Joanie 4 Jackie

View of “Eric Wesley/St. Louis (The Bell),” 2016–17, 1296 Camp Jackson Road, Cahokia, IL.

ON SITE

Jan Tumlir on Eric Wesley’s The Bell

View of “Barbara Kruger,” 2016–17, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. From left: Untitled (The future belongs to those who can see it), 1997; Untitled (We don’t need another hero), 1987; Untitled (Think of me thinking of you), 2013. Background: Untitled (Half Life), 2015. Photo: Rob Shelley.

ON SITE

Bibiana Obler on Barbara Kruger in Washington

Daidō Moriyama, Midnight Accident, Tokyo, 1969, gelatin silver print, 13 × 18 5/8". From the series “Accident,” 1969.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Brian Wallis on “Provoke: Photography in Japan 1960–1975”

Via App (Dylan Scheer) performing at the Sixth Stitch LP-release party, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Brooklyn, New York, December 10, 2016. Photo: Luis Nieto Dickens.

MUSIC

Jackie Neudorf on Via App

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Jun Takahashi

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View of “Heather Phillipson: EAT HERE,” 2015–16, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. Hanging screens: COMMISERATIONS!, 2015. Photo: Norbert Miguletz.

CARDIAC UNREST: THE ART OF HEATHER PHILLIPSON

Martin Herbert

Still from Adriana Martínez’s Shipping and Handling, 2016, 3-D digital animation, color, silent, 1 minute.

OPENINGS: ADRIANA MARTÍNEZ

Jens Hoffmann

View of “Hanne Darboven: Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 (Cultural History 1880–1983),” 2016–17, Dia:Chelsea, New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson. © Hanne Darboven Foundation, Hamburg/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

ON LONGING: THE ART OF HANNE DARBOVEN

Bruce Hainley

ARTIST’S PROJECT: OLD HAUNTS

Patrick Keiller

Patrick Keiller, Robinson in Ruins, 2010, 35 mm transferred to HD video, color, sound, 101 minutes.

NO NOOK OF ENGLISH GROUND SECURE: THE FILMS OF PATRICK KEILLER

Dennis Lim

Zhang Peili, X?, 1987, oil on canvas, 39 × 31 1/4". From the series “X?,” 1986–87.

STATES OF EXCEPTION: THE ART OF ZHANG PEILI

Pauline J. Yao

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View of “Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers,” 2016–17. From left: Felix Mask Portrait, 2016; Felix the Cat, 2013. Photo: Pablo Enriquez.

Colby Chamberlain on Mark Leckey

Jean-Luc Moulène, Bi-face, 2016, coated and painted hard foam. Installation view. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

Riccardo Venturi on Jean-Luc Moulène

View of “Robert Breer: Time Flies,” 2016–17. Floor, from left: Column, 1967; Porcupine, 1967; Rug, 1968.

Murtaza Vali on Robert Breer

View of “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium,” 2016–17. Photo: Bryan Conley.

Kaira M. Cabañas on Hélio Oiticica

Robert Mapplethorpe, Frogs, 1984, gelatin silver print, 20 × 16". © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

London

Eric Gottesman, The Last Days of Baalu Girma, 2013, ink-jet print from Polaroid negative, 42 × 52". From “Africans in America.”

Johannesburg

Sean O’Toole on “Africans in America”

Cathryn Boch, untitled, 2016, comprising ten untitled works, all 2016, mixed media, 10' 9 1/8“ × 18' 10 3/4”. Photo: Jean-Christophe Lett.

Paris

Matthew Metzger, The Condition, 2015, acrylic and oil on fiberglass honeycomb panel, 26 × 26". From the series “The Condition,” 2015.

Berlin

Etel Adnan, Untitled #251, 2016, oil on canvas, 15 × 18".

Hamburg, Germany

Jens Asthoff on Etel Adnan

Carsten Höller, Two Roaming Beds (Grey), 2015, mixed media, each 51 × 82 3/4 × 39". Installation view. From “Insomnia.” Photo: Jean Baptiste Béranger.

Stockholm

Fredrik Svensk on “Insomnia”

Gernot Wieland, Thievery and Songs, 2016, video, color, sound, 25 minutes. From “Body Luggage: Migration of Gestures.”

Graz, Austria

Prajna Desai on “Body Luggage”

Sharon Ya’ari, Officers’ Pool 1969, 2016, ink-jet print, 6' 6 3/4“ × 10' 1 5/8”.

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Sharon Ya’ari

Jackson Pollock, Stenographic Figure, ca. 1942, oil on linen, 40 × 56". © Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Basel

Michael Fried on “The Figurative Pollock”

Ditte Gantriis, Sexual Feeling, 2016, iron, copper, hydrochloric acid, handmade candles, handblown glass, 11' 9 3/4“ × 6' 6 3/4”.

Rome

Mike Watson on Ditte Gantriis

Enzo Cucchi, Mirare (Aiming), 2016, bronze, steel cable, 20 7/8 × 10 1/4 × 7 1/2".

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Enzo Cucchi

Arcangelo Sassolino, Canto V, 2016, wood, steel, hydraulic system, 6' 5 1/2“ × 16' 2 7/8” × 1' 8 7/8". Installation view. Photo: Ela Bialkowska.

San Gimignano, Italy

Marco Meneguzzo on Arcangelo Sassolino

Ana Manso, the end, 2016, oil on canvas, 20 1/8 × 14 5/8".

Lisbon

Markéta Stará Condeixa on Ana Manso

Faig Ahmed, Bakirə (Virgin), 2016, wool carpet, 118 1/8 × 59".

Baku, Azerbaijan

Cathryn Drake on Faig Ahmed

Panos Tsagaris, The White Lady of the Glaciers, 2016, gold leaf, acrylic, spray paint, and silk screen on canvas, 78 3/4 × 59".

Athens

Stephanie Bailey on Panos Tsagaris

Hassan Khan, The Portrait is an Address, 2016, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: Walid Rashid.

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Hassan Khan

MouSen+MSG, The Great Chain of Being–Planet Trilogy, 2016, mixed media. Installation view. From the 11th Shanghai Biennale.

Shanghai

Jyoti Dhar on the 11th Shanghai Biennale

Shang Yixin, +, 2016, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: Yang Chow Studio.

Beijing

Xinran Guo on Shang Yixin

Cristóbal Gracia, Simples y primitivos (Simple and Primitive), 2016, watercolor and pastel on ink-jet print, 28 3/8 × 34 1/4".

Mexico City

Sylwia Serafinowicz on Cristóbal Gracia

Felipe Cohen, Untitled (detail), 2016, confetti, dimensions variable. Photo: Everton Ballardin.

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Felipe Cohen

Dayanita Singh, The Gift NFS, 2005/2016, vitrine displaying accordion-fold photobook Chairs, 2005, 7 1/8 × 91 × 4 1/2". From “Given Time: The Gift and Its Offerings.”

Mumbai

Prajna Desai on “Given Time”

Helen Lundeberg, Water Map, 1963, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 60".

New York

Sarah Oppenheimer, S-281913, 2016, aluminum, glass, two components, each 16' × 17' 9“ × 1' 4”. Installation view. Photo: James Ewing.

Miami

Julian Rose on Sarah Oppenheimer

Kandis Williams, Esophagus Pin Up (detail), 2016, vinyl adhesive on mirrored Plexiglas, 48 × 86 1/2".

Los Angeles

Moyra Davey, Hemlock Forest, 2016, video, color, sound, 42 minutes. From the Biennale de Montréal.

Montreal

Jens Hoffmann on Biennale de Montréal

View of “Kristan Horton and David Armstrong Six,” 2016. From left: Kristan Horton, Tabarium Consumer Radiation Array 004, 2016; David Armstrong Six, Moonshade Walk’r, 2016; Kristan Horton with David Armstrong Six, Tabarium: Consumer Radiation Array 001, 2016; David Armstrong Six, Dwarf Mallow, 2016. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Toronto

Alison Syme on Kristan Horton and David Armstrong Six