TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2019

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Sam McKinniss, Star Spangled Banner (Whitney) (detail), 2017, oil and acrylic on canvas, 9 × 12".

September 2019, Vol. 58, No. 1

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COLUMNS

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Stefan Kalmár on LUTZ BACHER

passages

Lia Gangitano on LUTZ BACHER

film

Melissa Anderson on Lily Tomlin

books

J. Hoberman on Hannah Frank’s Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

ON SITE

Jessica Baran on Counterpublic and art in Saint Louis

Beverly Pepper at an Italian foundry, ca. 1960s.

ON SITE

Annie Godfrey Larmon on Beverly Pepper

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Institute of Queer Ecology

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FALL 2019 EXHIBITIONS

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“Pope.L: Conquest,” “Pope.L: Choir,” and “Member: Pope.L 1978–2001.”

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GAMING THE SYSTEM

Anthony Byrt on the art of Simon Denny

CLAIM TO FAME

Gary Indiana on the art of Sam McKinniss

Venice 2019

ABOVE THE FRAY

ERIKA BALSOM ON RUGILlĖ BARZDŽIUKAITŽ, VAIVA GRAINYTĖ, AND LINA LAPELYTĖ’S SUN & SEA (MARINA) AT THE LITHUANIAN PAVILION, VENICE

IN THE BLAND SCHEME OF THINGS

CLAIRE BISHOP ON “MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES”

THE STORYTELLERS

JANET KRAYNAK ON “MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES”

FAR FROM HOME

Zehra Jumabhoy on the art of Zarina

Kéré Architecture, Sarbalé Ke (House of Celebration), 2019, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio, CA, 2019. Photo: Iwan Baan.

TAKE CARE

Mimi Zeiger on the architecture of Diébédo Francis Kéré

OPENINGS: ektor garcia

Margaret Kross on ektor garcia

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Sonya Clark, Many (detail), one hundred linen flags, each 18 1⁄2 × 36".

Nell McClister on Sonya Clark

View of 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. From left: Eric N. Mack, Proposition: for wet Gee’s Bend Quilts to replace the American flag—Permanently, 2019; Jennifer Packer, Untitled, 2019; Jennifer Packer, An Exercise in Tendernesses, 2017; Jennifer Packer, Untitled, 2019; Jennifer Packer, A Lesson in Longing, 2019. Photo: Ron Amstutz.

Chloe Wyma on 2019 Whitney Biennial

View of “Roman Opałka,” 2019. From left: Détail 1896176–1916613; Détail 1916614–1940089; Détail 1940090–1965011, all works undated.

Milan

Giorgio Verzotti on Roman Opalka

Elke Silvia Krystufek, NOT MY JUSTICE, 2019, acrylic and ink on canvas, 55 1⁄8 × 70 7⁄8".

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Elke Silvia Krystufek

Linda McCue, Untitled, 2018, oil and transparent gesso on canvas, 17 3⁄8 × 23 5⁄8".

Hamburg

Jens Asthoff on Linda McCue

Susanne M. Winterling, Vertex Still (I) from Planetwall, 2015, digital print on Plexiglas, 23 5⁄8 × 31 1⁄2".

Cologne

Noemi Smolik on Susanne M. Winterling

Veit Laurent Kurz, Herba Stammtisch (Herba Regulars’ Table), 2019, mixed media, dimensions variable.

Berlin

Kristian Vistrup Madsen on Veit Laurent Kurz

Bernard Frize, Nami, 2019, acrylic and resin on canvas, 39 3⁄8 × 31 7⁄8".

Paris

View of “Prabhavathi Meppayil,” 2019. Foreground: sb/eighteen, 2018. Background, from left: l/hundred thirty six, 2018; l/hundred twenty eight, 2019.

London

Amalie Atkins, Requiem for Wind and Water, 2018, 16 mm, color, 25 minutes.

Saskatoon

Amy Fung on Amalie Atkins

Jeffrey Stuker, Mimicry and the Monte Carlo Predator, 2019, 4K video, color, sound, 10 minutes.

Los Angeles

Fernando Méndez Corona, ME AND YOU, 2018, oil on canvas, 80 × 80".

Mexicali, Mexico

Chris Kraus on Fernando Méndez Corona

Haris Epaminonda, Untitled #06 t/g, 2019, mirrored and lacquered wooden panel, brass, wooden panel, temple model, 27 5⁄8 × 19 3⁄4 × 20 1⁄2".

Brescia

Alessandra Pioselli on Haris Epaminonda

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Faz que vai / Set to Go, 2015, 2K video, color, sound, 11 minutes 50 seconds.

Amsterdam

Huib Haye van der Werf on Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca

Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen, Liquid Properties, 2018, handblown glass, water samples, microorganisms, metal structure, dimensions variable.

Oslo

Maria Horvei on Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen

Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Pair, 2004–2005, shoe, mirror with frame, dimensions variable.

Geneva

Adam Jasper on Hreinn Friðfinnsson

Gene Beery, Mere Decoration, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 19 1⁄2 × 25".

Fribourg

Kari Rittenbach on Gene Beery

Andreas Angelidakis, DEMOS Pink, 2018, foam, vinyl, twenty parts. Installation view. From the series “Demos,” 2016–.

Athens

Klea Charitou on Andreas Angelidakis

Roman Petrović, Dećek z balonom (Boy with a Balloon), 1929, oil on plywood, 57 1⁄2 × 45 1⁄8". From “On the Brink: The Visual Arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941).”

Ljubljana

Ivana Bago on “On the Brink: The Visual Arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941)”

Portia Zvavahera, Cleansing, 2019, oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas, 79 1⁄8 × 68 1⁄2".

Johannesburg

Athi Mongezeleli Joja on Portia Zvavahera

Tao Hui, An interview with Leng Shuihua, writer of The History of Southern Drama, 2018, video, color, sound, 10 minutes 46 seconds. From “In My Room.”

Shanghai

Richard Aldrich, I(?), 2017, oil and wax on panel, 14 × 10".

Tokyo

Yuki Higashino on Richard Aldrich

Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporu (The Man Who Eats), 1928, oil on canvas, 33 1⁄2 × 28 1⁄2".

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Tarsila do Amaral

View of “Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan,” 2019. From left: Rico Gatson, Panel Painting #41, 2019; Baseera Khan, My Family Seated, 2019; Rico Gatson, Panel Painting #42, 2019.

New York

View of “Rosângela Rennó,” 2019.

Lisbon

Alexandre Melo on Rosângela Rennó

Fernanda Laguna, Vivir en la luz (To Live in the Light), 1994, painted wood, collage, light fixture, 9 × 10 5⁄8 × 13 3⁄4". From “Tácticas luminosas” (Luminous Tactics).

Buenos Aires

Kerry Doran on “Tácticas luminosas”

View of “Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley,” 2019.

Melbourne

Charles Green on Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley

Leonora Carrington, And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur!, 1953, oil on canvas, 23 3⁄5 × 27 1⁄2".

New York

Paige K. Bradley on Leonora Carrington

Thomas Joshua Cooper, Moonrise over Montauk—The North Atlantic Ocean, Montauk Point, “The End,” East Hampton Township, (South Fork) Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, 2016–2017, gelatin silver print, 30 × 40".

Water Mill

Barry Schwabsky on Thomas Joshua Cooper

Bob Ross, Cactus at Sunset, 1986, oil on canvas, 18 × 24". From “New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival.”

Chicago

C.C. McKee on “New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival”

Jonas Wood, Jungle Kitchen, 2017, oil and acrylic on canvas, 100 × 93".

Dallas

Matthew Bourbon on Jonas Wood

Joan Brown, The Cosmic Nurse, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 96 1⁄2 × 79".

San Francisco

Canada Choate on Joan Brown