TABLE OF CONTENTS

December 2017

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Cover: Home flooded by Hurricane Harvey near Freeport, Texas, September 1, 2017. Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP/Shutterstock.

December 2017, Vol. 56, No. 4

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COLUMNS

Anik Khan performing at Rough Trade NYC, New York, July 18, 2017. Photo: HYFN.

Music: Best of 2017

DJ Rekha

Kahlil Joseph and Sampha, Process, 2017, 35 mm and 2Km video, color, sound, 37 minutes.

Music: Best of 2017

Adam Bainbridge

Still from Nicki Minaj’s 2017 video No Frauds, directed by Benny Boom. Nicki Minaj.

Music: Best of 2017

Quay Dash

Solange performing at FORM Arcosanti, Arizona, May 12, 2017. Photo: Jacqueline Verdugo.

Music: Best of 2017

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Cover of Aaron Dilloway’s The Gag File (Dais Records, 2017).

Music: Best of 2017

Cameron Jamie

Editor’s Letter

Michelle Kuo on Continuous Project

Letters

New Objectivity

Edgar Wright, Baby Driver, 2017, 35 mm, color, sound, 112 minutes. Debora (Lily James) and Baby (Ansel Elgort).
Production still. Photo: Wilson Webb.

Film: Best of 2017

John Waters

Agnieszka Holland with Kasia Adamik, Spoor, 2017, 2K video, color, sound, 128 minutes. Priest Szelest (Marcin Basak) and altar boy (Szymon Kontyka).

Film: Best of 2017

Amy Taubin

Lucrecia Martel, Zama, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 115 minutes.

Film: Best of 2017

J. Hoberman

View of “The Boat Is Leaking. The Captain Lied.,” 2017, Fondazione Prada, Venice. Floor: Anna Viebrock, Runners,
2009. Walls: Anna Viebrock, Four Doors, 2017. Center: Alexander Kluge, Die sanfte Schminke des Lichts (The Soft Makeup of Lighting), 2007. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti.

Film: Best of 2017

James Quandt

Kevin Jerome Everson, Tonsler Park, 2017, 16 mm, black-and-white, sound, 80 minutes.

Film: Best of 2017

Erika Balsom

Books: Best of 2017

Chris Kraus

Books: Best of 2017

Jordan Kantor

Books: Best of 2017

Pauline J. Yao

Books: Best of 2017

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Books: Best of 2017

Gary Dauphin

Books: Best of 2017

Lucy Kumara Moore

Books: Best of 2017

Rebekah Rutkoff

View of “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between,” 2017, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Artists’ Artists

Chitose Abe, Richard Aldrich, Davide Balula, Nina Canell, Jordan Casteel, Caleb Considine, Verne Dawson, Thomas Demand, Simon Denny, Stephan Dillemuth, Janiva Ellis, Matias Faldbakken, Jes Fan, Peter Halley, Mikiko Hara, Mona Hatoum, Leslie Hewitt, Lubaina Himid, Yngve Holen, Maryam Hoseini, Hao Jingban, An-My Lê, Zoe Leonard, Pixy Liao, Valentina Liernur, Kerry James Marshall, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Amalia Pica, Jessi Reaves, Pedro Reyes, Kalen Na’il Roach, Adrián Villar Rojas, Tschabalala Self, Ser Serpas, Lorna Simpson, Oscar Tuazon, Nicola Tyson, Lee Ufan, Katharina Wulff, Shen Xin on The Artists’ Artists

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Kerry James Marshall, Bang, 1994, acrylic and collage on canvas, 103 × 114".

Okwui Enwezor

Cover of Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 2 (Éditions Grasset, 2015).

Anne Dressen

Paul Chan, Pentasophia (or Le bonheur de vivre dans la catastrophe du monde occidental) (detail), 2016, nylon, metal, concrete, shoes, fans, paper. Installation view, 2017. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.

Hal Foster

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Poor People’s TV Room, 2017. Performance view, New York Live Arts, April 18, 2017. Okwui Okpokwasili and Katrina Reid. Photo: Ian Douglas.

Zoe Whitley

Paul Schrader, First Reformed, 2017, 2K video, color, sound, 108 minutes. Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke).

Rachel Kushner

Hélio Oiticia, Tropicália, 1966–67, plants, sand, birds, poems by Roberta Camila Salgado on bricks, tiles, vinyl. Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017. Photo: Wolfgang Tillmans.

Wolfgang Tillmans

EJ Hill, Pillar, 2017, wood, PVC. Installation view, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice. From “The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2017.” Photo: Sergey Illin. 2

Jamillah James

Martin Beck, An Organized System of Instructions, 2016, HD video, color, sound, 48 minutes 50 seconds.

Branden W. Joseph

View of “Dark Matter Games,” 2017, S.a.L.E Docks, Venice. From left: Emily Eliza Scott, Art Historians Against Fascism, 2017; Committee Against Big Cruise Ships of Venice, Banner from San Marco’s Tower, 2014. Photo: Veronica Badolin.

Manuel Borja-Villel

Anne Imhof, Faust, 2017. Performance view, German pavilion, Venice, June 23, 2017. From the 57th Venice Biennale. Stine Omar. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski.

Jack Bankowsky

Ho Tzu Nyen, The Nameless, 2015, two-channel HD video, color, sound, 21 minutes 51 seconds. From “Ghosts and Spectres—Shadows of History.”

Venus Lau

Jasper Johns, Painting Bitten by a Man, 1961, encaustic on canvas mounted on type plate, 9 1/2 × 6 7/8". © Jasper Johns/VAGA, New York/DACS, London.

Daniel Birnbaum

Walid Raad in collaboration with Bernard Khoury, A Proposal for a Beirut Site Museum: Preface (2016–2026), 2017, wood, stone, paint. Installation view.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Jochen Lempert, Un voyage en mer du Nord (Voyage on the North Sea) (detail), 2009, six gelatin silver prints, each 40 × 32 5/8".

Matthew Higgs

Lorna Simpson, Easy to Remember, 2001, 16 mm transferred to digital video, black-and-white, sound, 2 minutes, 35 seconds. From “Uprisings.”

Vince Aletti

Hurricane Irma over Anguilla and Barbuda, September 6, 2017. Photo: NASA.

THE YEAR IN WEATHER

Keller Easterling

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1775, oil on canvas, 33 1/2 × 25 5/8".

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth on “Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures”

Adam Linder, Service No. 5: Dare to Keep Kids off Naturalism, 2017. Performance view, September 8, 2017. From left: Leah Katz, Noha Ramadan, Stephen Thompson, Justin F. Kennedy. Photo: Nicolas Gysin.

Maja Naef on Adam Linder

Harun Farocki, Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades (detail), 2006, still from a 37-second color and black-and-white video component of a twelve-monitor installation.

Noam M. Elcott on “Picture Industry”

Ugo Rondinone, Where Do We Go from Here?, 1999/2017, neon, Perspex, translucent film, aluminum. From the series “Rainbow Poems,” 1997–2017. Installation view, Mustafa Kemal Cultural Centre, Istanbul. Photo: Onur Dogman.

Mine Haydaroglu on the 15th Istanbul Biennial

Nora Turato, almost persuaded, 2017. Performance view. Nora Turato. Photo: Sander Tiedema.

Amsterdam

Adam Jasper on Nora Turato

Pablo Rasgado, This Too Shall Pass, 2017, copper, 3/4 x 3/4".

Los Angeles

Shirana Shahbazi, Raum-Streifen-01 (Room-Stripes-01), 2017, C-print, 23 7/8 x 19 7/8".

Zurich

Norbert Bisky, Trilemma, 2017, oil on canvas, 94 1/2 x 74 3/4". © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Berlin

Ida Ekblad, Fantasy on my phone, 2017, plastisol, puff paint, cotton, linen, 62 3/8 x 62 1/8".

Paris

Vittorio Scarpati, Untitled, 1989, felt-tip pen on paper, 8 1/4 x 5 1/8".

London

Janet Werner, Sorcerer, 2016, oil on canvas, 75 x 60".

Montreal

Ara Osterweil on Janet Werner

Brussels

Aaron Peck on Stanley Brouwn

John Armleder, Total, 2017, mirror, lacquered wood, 92 x 75 x 24".

Milan

View of “Ángel Bados,” 2017. Photo: Daniel Mera Martínez.

Bilbao

Javier Hontoria on Ángel Bados

Fernanda Fragateiro, Architecture, a place for women?, 2016, stainless steel, architecture magazines, 8 5/8“ x 13' 9 3/8” x 5 1/2". Photo: António Jorge Silva.

Lisbon

Alexandre Melo on Fernanda Fragateiro

Ahmad Ghossein, The Last Cartographer in the Republic, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 15 minutes.

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Ahmad Ghossein

View of “Javier Barrios and Joaquín Segura,” 2017. Wall: Untitled, 2017. Floor: Autosuficiencia: Ejercicios de balance (Selfsufficiency: Balance Exercises), 2017. Photo: Joaquín Segura.

Irapuato, Mexico

Marcela Quiroz on Javier Barrios and Joaquín Segura

Pedro Reyes, Litophone (Teponaztli), 2017, volcanic rock, plywood, 15 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 15 3/4".

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Pedro Reyes

Marcius Galan, Precision Tool, 2017, iron, wood, automotive paint, 78 3/4 x 63 x 59".

Rio de Janeiro

Felipe Scovino on Marcius Galan

Minam Apang, Untitled, 2017, charcoal on cotton, 28 1/4 × 35 1/4".

Mumbai

Roshan Kumar Mogali on Minam Apang

Wang Gongxin, Dialogue, 1995, metal, wood, ink, motor, lightbulbs. Installation view, 2017. Photo: Kit Min Lee.

Hong Kong

Qu Chang on Wang Gongxin

Kate Smith, You can be Phillip Seymour Hoffman, or you can calm down, 2017, oil and acrylic on linen, 14 x 18".

Melbourne

Helen Hughes on Kate Smith

Lin Tianmiao, Protruding Patterns, 2014, wool and acrylic yarn, carpets. Installation view, 2017.

New York

Keith Mayerson, The Wizard of Oz Quintet, 2006, oil on linen, 48 x 80".

Cleveland

Grant Johnson on Keith Mayerson

Nate Young, Interment, 2017, gold leaf, walnut, Plexiglas, horse bone, spray paint, LED, 28 1/2 × 16 × 6".

Chicago

Michelle Grabner on Nate Young

Jim Campbell, Exploded Flat 2, 2017, aluminum, LEDs, custom electronics, 48 x 72 x 4 1/2". Photo: David Stroud.

San Francisco

Elizabeth Mangini on Jim Campbell