TABLE OF CONTENTS

January 2019

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January 2019, Vol. 57, No. 5

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COLUMNS

passages

Rachel Churner on Annette Michelson

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Stuart Liebman on Annette Michelson

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Fredric R. Jameson on Robert Venturi

slant

Colby Chamberlain on “Walls Turned Sideways”

PHOTOGRAPHY

Ariel Goldberg on Donna Gottschalk

music

Sasha Frere-Jones on Éliane Radigue

top ten

Tod Lippy

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Spring 2019 Exhibitions

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“NARI WARD: WE THE PEOPLE”

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THE PICTURE OF LITTLE C.N. IN A PROSPECT OF HORRORS

Bruce Hainley on the art of Cady Noland

Banu Cennetoğlu, BEINGSAFEISSCARY, 2017, original aluminum signage, brass. Installation view, Fridericianum, Kassel. From Documenta 14. Photo: Roman Maerz.

TODAY IN HISTORY

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE ON THE ART OF BANU CENNETOĞLU

PROJECT: MARTINE GUTIERREZ

DESKTOP PICTURE PLANE

JAN TUMLIR ON MATTHEW BRANNON’S “CONCERNING VIETNAM”

BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND

JORDAN KANTOR ON THE ART OF VIJA CELMINS

CLOSE UP: IN ANOTHER VEIN

Mira Dayal on Marianna Simnett’s Blood In My Milk, 2018

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Pablo Picasso, Pierreuses au bar (Two Women at a Bar), 1902, oil on canvas, 31 1⁄2 × 36".

Daniel Marcus on “Picasso: Blue and Rose”

View of “René Daniëls: Fragments from an Unfinished Novel,” 2018. From left: Painting on the Bullfight, 1985; De slag om de twintigste eeuw (Battle for the Twentieth Century), 1984; Painting on Unknown Languages, 1985. Photo: Hugard & Vanoverschelde Photography.

Barry Schwabsky on René Daniëls

Mario Merz, Chiaro oscuro/oscuro chiaro, 1983, metal structure, clamps, glass, bundles of sticks, neon, clay, cement. Installation view. Photo: Renato Ghiazza.

Elizabeth Mangini on Mario Merz

Jes Fan, Diagram VI, 2018, Aqua-Resin, glass, epoxy, 6 × 13 × 5".

New York

Yael Bartana, Mary Koszmary (Nightmares), 2007, video, color, sound, 11 minutes. Sławomir Sierakowski.

Philadelphia

Hannah Stamler on Yael Bartana

Torkwase Dyson, Joni Lee Blackman, 2018, diptych, acrylic on canvas, each 84 × 72".

Chicago

Michelle Grabner on Torkwase Dyson

Memorabilia from “Gregg Bordowitz,” 2018.

Portland

Jon Raymond on Gregg Bordowitz

Lava Thomas, Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Alberta J. James, 2018, graphite and conté pencil on paper, 48 1⁄4 × 34 1⁄2".

San Francisco

Ara Osterweil on Lava Thomas

Harvey Quaytman, Araras, 1973, acrylic and pigment on canvas, 87 × 87".

Berkeley

Gwen Allen on Harvey Quaytman

Nikita Gale, DESCENT, 2018, HD video, color, sound, 8 minutes 21 seconds.

Los Angeles

Diane Simpson, Jabot (triplet), 2018, low-density fiberboard, colored pencil, linen, steel, wooden dowels, fabric straps, 43 × 33 × 21". Photo: Andy Keate.

London

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981, acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 81 × 69 1⁄4".

Paris

Mara Hoberman on Jean-Michel Basquiat

Alfredo Jaar, WHAT NEED IS THERE TO WEEP OVER PARTS OF LIFE? THE WHOLE OF IT CALLS FOR TEARS, 2018, neon, 19' 8 1⁄4“ × 15' 6 5⁄8”.

Milan

Palermo

Eugenio Viola on Carlos Garaicoa

Erlea Maneros Zabala, Temporal Arrangements. Series I, 2018, gouache on photographic print, 36 1⁄4 × 48".

Bilbao

Javier Hontoria on Erlea Maneros Zabala

Michael Rakowitz, The Ballad of Special Ops Cody, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 14 minutes 42 seconds.

Berlin

Josef Bauer, Körpergalerie (Body Gallery), 1974, photographic print, 29 1⁄2 × 21 5⁄8" (framed). From the series “Körpergalerie” (Body Gallery), 1974.

Hamburg

Nina Möntmann on Josef Bauer

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster with Joi Bittle, Cosmorama, 2018, mixed media, 9' 10“ × 26' 3”. Photo: Nicholas Knight.

Leipzig

Tobi Maier on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

View of “Mathis Altmann, Bonnie Camplin, Salvo, Lucie Stahl, Amelie von Wulffen,” 2018. From left: Bonnie Camplin, Cerne Abbas Giant!, 2018; Amelie von Wulffen, Untitled, 2014. Photo: Marcel Koehler.

Vienna

Kristian Vistrup Madsen on Mathis Altmann, Bonnie Camplin, Salvo, Lucie Stahl, Amelie von Wulffen

TR Ericsson, 45’s, 2018, graphite, resin, and funerary ash on muslin, 59 × 82 5⁄8".

Brussels

Huib Haye van der Werf on TR Ericsson

Yardena Kurulkar, Synonym, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 10 minutes 50 seconds.

Mumbai

Roshan Kumar Mogali on Yardena Kurulkar

Lake Verea, Paparazzas en acción, 2013, C-print, 32 5⁄8 × 37 3⁄4".

Mexico City

Fabiola Iza on Lake Verea

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Natureza geométrica/biología (Geometric Nature/Biology), 2018, branch, rubber bands, ropes, metal, dimensions variable.

São Paulo

Kaira M. Cabañas on Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Miguel Rio Branco, Roman Light, 2018, triptych, ink-jet prints, overall, 31 1⁄2 × 94 1⁄2".

Rio de Janeiro

Felipe Scovino on Miguel Rio Branco