TABLE OF CONTENTS

March 2017

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Cover: Wolfgang Tillmans, Black Lives Matter Protest, Union Square, b (detail), 2014, ink-jet print, dimensions variable.

March 2017, Vol. 55, No. 7

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COLUMNS

Still from Ways of Seeing, 1972, a TV show on BBC. John Berger.

PASSAGES

Geoff Dyer on John Berger

Jean Fisher, Wrexham, UK, 1967. Photo: Tony Fisher.

PASSAGES

Kobena Mercer on Jean Fisher

Spread from Artforum, June 1973. Annette Michelson, “Rose Hobart and Monsieur Phot: Early Films from Utopia Parkway.”

FILM

Annette Michelson talks with Rachel Churner on On the Eve of the Future

Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion, 2016, 4K video, color, sound, 126 minutes. Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon).

FILM

Brenda Wineapple on Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion

Translation of letter concerning ISIS Antiquities Division leadership, November 21, 2014. Original document obtained in a May 16, 2015, US Special Forces raid of Abu Sayyaf’s Syrian compound and made available on the US Department of State website.

CONSERVATION

Melissa Gronlund on “Safeguarding Cultural Heritage”

View of “Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years,” 2016–17, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. On plinths, from left: Little Big Horn, 1959; Tientos, 1959; Sitting Bull, 1959; USA 41, 1960; Red River, ca. 1960. On wall: Falling Red, 1958. Photo: Butcher Walsh.

ON SITE

Richard Deming on Peter Voulkos

Alfred Hitchcock, Rope, 1948, 35 mm, color, sound, 80 minutes.

BOOKS

Ben Kafka on D. A. Miller’s Hidden Hitchcock

Douglas Crimp in his Chambers Street loft, New York, ca. 1975.

BOOKS

David Velasco on Douglas Crimp’s Before Pictures

RWD magazine covers, 2016. Photo: Olivia Rose.

MUSIC

Jonathan P. Watts on This Is Grime

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Richard Kennedy

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Sky Hopinka, Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary, 2016, HD video, color, sound, 13 minutes 5 seconds.

OPENINGS: SKY HOPINKA

Dennis Lim

Kelly Akashi, Finger Figure (detail), 2016, bronze, copper, brass, anodized aluminum wire, 28 × 28 × 44".

OPENINGS: KELLY AKASHI

Suzanne Hudson

Albert Serra, La mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV), 2016, HD video, color, sound, 115 minutes. Louis XIV (Jean-Pierre Léaud).

SHOT IN THE DARK: THE FILMS OF ALBERT SERRA

James Quandt

Albrecht Dürer, The Draughtsman of the Lute, n.d., woodcut on paper, sheet size 5 1/8 × 7 1/4".

SPACE ODYSSEY: THE RISE OF 3-D TECHNOLOGY

Mario Carpo

Ginane Makki Bacho, Cedar, 2011, shrapnel, 32 1/4 × 23 5/8 × 16 1/8". From the series “Cedars,” 2010–16.

MOUNTING RESISTANCE: NEW ART IN BEIRUT

Nasser Rabbat

Rodney Werden, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, and AA Bronson of General Idea Play the Part of the Architects of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, 1974, gelatin silver print, 15 5/8 × 19 3/4". From left: Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, and AA Bronson.

THE CONFORMISTS: THE ART OF GENERAL IDEA

Alex Kitnick

SHOW OF HANDS

Michelle Kuo

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“Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965,” 2016–17. Hanging: Sadamasa Motonaga, Work (Water), 1956/2016. Floor: Anthony Caro, Capital, 1960. Photo: Maximilian Geuter.

Maria Stavrinaki on “Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965”

R. H. Quaytman, Morning, 4.545%, Chapter 30, 2016, twenty-two paintings in oil, gouache, varnish, silk-screen ink, lacquer, and gesso on wood. Installation view. Photo: Brian Forrest.

Jordan Kantor on R. H. Quaytman

Raúl Zurita, The Sea of Pain, 2016, seawater pool, text on eight canvases. Installation view, Aspinwall House. Raúl Zurita.

Jyoti Dhar on the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

View of “Joëlle Tuerlinckx: Nothing for Eternity,” 2016–17. Floor: Works from the series “‘ATOMIC AMALGAME ANNÉE 58’ – FLOOR FIGURE ‘RONDs-DE-SOL’” (‘Atomic Amalgam Year 58’ – Floor Figure ‘Floor Discs’), 2002–16. Photo: Gina Folly.

Maja Naef on Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Carlo Maria Mariani, Un volo di colombi (A Flight of Doves), 2012–16, acrylic, gouache, and graphite on canvas, 73 × 95".

New York

Brandi Twilley, Napping by the AC, 2016, oil on canvas, 60 × 84".

Philadelphia

Cat Kron on Brandi Twilley

Joyce Pensato, Chicago Eyes, 2016, enamel on linen, 74 × 52".

Chicago

Solveig Nelson on Joyce Pensato

View of “Blake Rayne,” 2016–17. Foreground: A Line, 2013. Background, from left: Untitled, 2010; Untitled, 2010. Photo: Peter Molick.

Houston

Paul Galvez on Blake Rayne

Oliver Payne, Untitled (Replica of Game Boy Damaged in the Gulf War), 2016, Game Boy console, 5 3/4 × 3 1/2 × 1 1/4".

Los Angeles

Elias Zayat, Deluge: The Gods Abandon Palmyra, 2011–12, acrylic on canvas, 12' 3“ × 5' 8”. From: “Syria: A Living History.”

Toronto

Alison Syme on “Syria: A Living History”

Rehana Zaman, Tell me the story Of all these things, 2016, HD video, color, sound, 22 minutes 46 seconds.

London

Stephanie Bailey on Rehana Zaman

View of “Anthea Hamilton,” 2016–17. Photo: Stuart Whipps.

Wakefield, UK

Sherman Sam on Anthea Hamilton

Yuri Pattison, memory foam memory, 2016, AmazonBasics memory foam mattress, light-therapy mask, travel adapters, USB charger, LED panel, dawn/dusk simulation dimmer, white-noise sound conditioner, melatonin liquid, vaporizer, Unistrut. Installation view.

Dublin

Kate Sutton on Yuri Pattison

View of “Lili Reynaud-Dewar,” 2016–17. Photo: Julie Joubert.

Paris

Lillian Davies on Lili Reynaud-Dewar

Navine G. Khan-Dossos, The Spies Are Intercepted, 2016, gouache on panel, 13 3/4 × 9 7/8". From the thirty-six-part suite Remaining and Expanding, 2016.

Berlin

Adam Kleinman on Navine G. Khan-Dossos

Anna Möller, Untitled #5, 2016, ink-jet print on paper, 12 1/2 × 18 7/8".

Hamburg

Jens Asthoff on Anna Möller

Carsten Höller with Måns Månsson, Fara Fara, 2014, two-channel video installation, color, sound, 13 minutes.

Ostend, Belgium

Jos Van den Bergh on Carsten Höller

Dustin Yellin, 10 Parts, 2015–16, glass, collage, acrylic paint, 3' 11 1/2“ × 20' 4 3/4” × 1' 4 3/4".

Amsterdam

Gilda Williams on Dustin Yellin

Phyllida Barlow, demo, 2016, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Annik Wetter.

Zurich

Anna-Sophie Berger, Drunk or Dead?, 2016, paper, pencil, wine bottle, olive oil, whiskey, balsamic vinegar, canned beans, apricot jam, marzipan figurine, concrete hand, iron weights, salt, 13 × 90 1/2 × 47 1/4". Photo: Klaus Pichler.

Vienna

Philipp Kleinmichel on Anna-Sophie Berger

Giulio Turcato, Superficie lunare (Moon Surface), 1969, oil and mixed media on foam rubber, 23 5/8 × 31 1/2". From the series “Superfici lunari” (Moon Surfaces), 1964–73.

Milan

Francesca Pola on Giulio Turcato

Fabio Mauri, Intellettuale (Intellectual), 1975, mixed media. Installation view. Photo: Amedeo Benestante.

Naples

Ida Panicelli on Fabio Mauri

Nathalie Du Pasquier, BRR 10, 2016, oil on canvas, acrylic on wall, 93 3/4 × 39 3/8".

Brescia, Italy

Marco Tagliafierro on Nathalie Du Pasquier

Johanna Calle, Cerca (Fence), 2016, typewritten text on notary paper, 39 3/8 × 55 1/2".

Madrid

Javier Hontoria on Johanna Calle

View of “Jannis Kounellis,” 2016–17. Photo: Manolis Baboussis.

Be’er Sheva, Israel

Romy Golan on Jannis Kounellis

Christian Bonnefoi, JANAPA II, 1978, acrylic on tarlatan, metal frame, 74 3/4 × 98 3/8". From the series “JANAPA,” 1978.

Dubai

Melissa Gronlund on Christian Bonnefoi

Nina Canell, Reflexologies, 2016, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Shanghai

Arthur Solway on Nina Canell

Veit Laurent Kurz, Fear and Impatience (Herba-4 Series), 2016, acrylic, crayon, oil chalk, acrylic varnish, and digital print on wood, 16 7/8 × 20 1/8". From “Se nos cayó el teatro” (Our Theater Has Fallen).

Mexico City

Anna Goetz on “Se nos cayó el teatro”

K. M. Madhusudhanan, Parade, 2016, fiberglass, iron, rubber, 55 1/2 × 12 × 37".

New Delhi

Meera Menezes on K. M. Madhusudhanan

Gottfried Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene, 1890, oil on canvas, 40 1/8 × 33 1/8".

Auckland

Anthony Byrt on Gottfried Lindauer