TABLE OF CONTENTS

November 2018

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Charles Gaines, untitled, 2018, digital stock photo montage, 10 × 10". Photos: viii/Adobe Stock and Alexander Glagolev/Adobe Stock. Special project for Artforum.

November 2018, Vol. 57, No. 3

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COLUMNS

ARCHITECTURE

Ian Volner on the Venice Architecture Biennale

FILM

Melissa Anderson on Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria

FILM

Erika Balsom on Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives

ON SITE

Ciarán Finlayson on Thomas Cole and Ed Ruscha

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DonChristian

TELEVISION

Mychal Denzel Smith on Random Acts of Flyness

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CLOSE UP: STATIC SHOCK

Amy Taubin on Andy Warhol’s Jack Smith, 1964

Openings: Candice Lin

Michael Ned Holte on Candice Lin

ED RUSCHA

JIM SHAW

SUE WILLIAMS

Charles Gaines, untitled, 2018, digital stock photo montage, 10 × 10". Photos: viii/Adobe Stock and Alexander Glagolev/Adobe Stock. Special project for Artforum.

REPAIR OR REVOLT? PROJECTS ON POLITICS

Charles Gaines, Sue Williams, Jim Shaw, and Ed Ruscha

CLOSE UP: KINETIC ELEGY

Catherine Damman on Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, and Ishmael Houston-Jones’s Them, 1986

PROJECT: KYLE VU-DUNN

Alex Jovanovich

The Price of Intimacy

Diedrich Diederichsen on Hubert Fichte

Through The Past, Darkly

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth on the art of Eugène Delacroix

1000 WORDS: ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN

Rochelle Feinstein talks about her survey at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Gravity and Grace

Rachel Churner on the art of Maren Hassinger

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Dorothea Rockburne, “Ineinander Series,” 1972, crude oil and tar on twelve paper sheets, each 40 × 30". Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio.

Chloe Wyma on Dorothea Rockburne

Xu Bing, Book from the Sky, 1987–91, mixed media. Installation view, 2018. Photo: Sun Shi.

Lydia H. Liu on Xu Bing

View of “Rebecca Belmore,” 2018. From left: Tower, 2018; tarpaulin, 2018.

Toronto

Gabrielle Moser on Rebecca Belmore

Lin May Saeed, Bee, 2018, cardboard, transparent paper, strip lights, 102 × 102 3⁄8 × 19 5⁄8".

London

N. S. Harsha, Reclaiming the Inner Space, 2017, aluminum composite panel mirror, aluminum, acrylic paint, carved teak wood elephants, found cartons, steel hooks, pellets. Installation view. Photo: Polly Thomas.

Swansea, Wales

Zehra Jumabhoy on N. S. Harsha

Hoda Kashiha, Dream Makes Cloud, 2018, oil, spray paint, and acrylic on canvas, 47 1⁄4 × 39 3⁄8". From “Oil of Pardis.”

Paris

Lillian Davies on “The Oil of Pardis”

View of “Carsten Nicolai,” 2018. Photo: Julija Stankeviciene.

Berlin

Travis Jeppesen on Carsten Nicolai

Kohei Nawa, Throne (g/p_ boy), 2017 3-D printed object, gold leaf, 55 x 30 x 23 1/4".

Hamburg

Jens Asthoff on Kohei Nawa

Lothar Zitzmann, Frauen der Welt (Women of the World), 1974, oil on board, 63 × 76 3⁄8". From “East German Painting and Sculpture 1949–1990.”

Dresden, Germany

Hannah Stamler on “East German Painting and Sculpture 1949–1990”

Melanie Smith, María Elena, 2018, HD video projection, color, sound, 24 minutes.

Zurich

Adam Jasper on Melanie Smith

Michael Kienzer, Weiß auf Weiß (Zeichnung Vol 6) (White on White [Drawing Vol. 6]), 2018, zinc sheet, lacquer, 14' × 10' × 1' 7 1⁄4".

Vienna

Franz Thalmair on Michael Kienzer

Walter Swennen, To Mona Mills, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 67 × 63".

Milan

Sherman Sam on Walter Swennen

Runo Lagomarsino, We All Laughed at Christopher Columbus, 2003, single-slide projection on MDF, 18 × 10 × 16 3⁄4". Photo: Bruno Lopes.

Lisbon

Alexandre Melo on Runo Lagomarsino

Grayson Perry, Battle of Britain, 2017, tapestry, 10 × 23’.

Helsinki

Mike Watson on Grayson Perry

View of “Laura Lima,” 2018. Photo: Isabella Matheus.

São Paulo

Kaira M. Cabañas on Laura Lima

Marcos Castro, El levantamiento de la Coatlicue (The Rise of the Coatlicue) (detail), 2018, acrylic and chalk on wall, dimensions variable. From “Murales temporales.”

Mexico City

Gaby Cepeda on “Murales temporales”

Michael Najjar, Netropolis | Shanghai 2017, 2017, archival pigment print on aluminum Dibond, 70 7⁄8 × 118 1⁄8". From “The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism.”

Shanghai

Arthur Solway on “The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism”

View of “Yaminay Chaudhri,” 2018. Foreground: An Imaginary Walk on Seaview, 2015–17. Background: Narrative Interrupted, 2014.

Sharjah

Murtaza Vali on Yaminay Chaudhri

Trần Lương, _Sun Reflection, 1997, ink and natural color pigments on dó paper, 24 3/8 x 32 1/4". From “Gang of Five: Chancing Modern.”

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Roger Nelson on Gang of Five

David Goldblatt, ‘Boss Boy’ detail, Battery Reef, Randfontein Estates Gold Mine, 1966, carbon ink on paper, 14 3⁄8 × 11 3⁄4".

Johannesburg

Ian Bourland on David Goldblatt and Peter Magubane

Modupeola Fadugba, Pink Honey, 2018, acrylic, graphite, and ink on burnt paper, 51 × 72".

Accra, Ghana

Ayodeji Rotinwa on Modupeola Fadugba

Yvonne Todd, Sand Forms, 2014, C-type print, 34 × 40".

Sydney

Toni Ross on Yvonne Todd

Kathy Butterly, Baked Sale, 2018, clay, glaze, 4 5⁄8 × 5 3⁄8 × 5 3⁄8".

New York

Fernando Palma Rodríguez, Soldado (Soldier), 2001, mixed media, electronic circuits and sensors, dimensions variable. Photo: Ed Mumford.

Los Angeles

Keith Sonnier, USA: War of the Worlds, 2004, neon tubing, transformer, found objects, approx. 48 × 48 × 28".

Water Mill, New York

Barry Schwabsky on Keith Sonnier

Josh Reams, wheres my gun, 2018, acrylic, oil, sawdust, ash, dyed rag, and soil on canvas, 60 × 50".

Chicago

Michelle Grabner on Josh Reames

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Surviving Active Shooter Custer (detail), 2018, forty-eight monoprints on paper, each 30 × 22". From SITElines.2018.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Chelsea Weathers on SITElines.2018

View of “Cathy Wilkes,” 2018. Photo: Leif Anderson.

Portland, Oregon

Jon Raymond on Cathy Wilkes