TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2020

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Stanley Whitney, Untitled (No Prison Life), 2020, crayon on paper, 10 1⁄2 × 10 1⁄2".

September 2020, Vol. 59, No. 1

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COLUMNS

passages

Julia Bryan-Wilson on Lotty Rosenfeld

Yale Union Laundry Building, Portland, OR, 2008.

ON SITE

Jon Raymond on Yale Union and the Center for Native Arts and Cultures

Dispatch

Bulletins from around the globe

Abney Park Cemetery in London. Photo: Wikipedia.

Dispatch

Anjalika Sagar, Cécile B. Evans, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Hew Locke, Eva Kenny

Organic-produce-box donation prepared by Summaeverythang Community Center, July 17, 2020. Photo: Lauren Halsey Studio.

Dispatch

Guadalupe Rosales, Patty Chang, César Garcia

Denilson Baniwa, Brasil terra indígena (Brazil Indigenous Land), 2020, HD video, color, silent, 4 minutes 52 seconds. Installation view, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo. In collaboration with Coletivo Coletores.

Dispatch

Mario García Torres, Gaby Cepeda, Silas Martí, Amanda Carneiro, Fernanda Brenner, Hélio Menezes

Tama River, Tokyo, 2020. Photo: Du Keke.

Dispatch

Victor Wang, Ute Meta Bauer, Du Keke, Alvin Li, Meera Menezes

Richard Kennedy, Fubu Fukú, 2020. Performance view, Trauma Bar und Kino, Berlin, July 16, 2020. Richard Kennedy. Photo: Dareos Khalili.

Dispatch

Caroline Busta, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Mari Spirito, Manuel Borja-Villel, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

top ten

Katherine McKittrick

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Jesse Krimes, Purgatory, 2009, prison-issued soap, newsprint transfer, playing cards, 3 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄2".

CARCERAL AESTHETICS

Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with Rachel Kushner

Clara Ianni, Repetições (Repetitions), 2017–18, HD video, color, sound, 23 minutes. Izaias Almada.

OPENINGS: CLARA IANNI

Giampaolo Bianconi

DEAR MARIE

Bruce Hainley on the art of Marie Laurencin

Michael Almereyda, Tesla, 2020, 2K video, color, sound, 102 minutes.

ELECTRIC DREAMS

Amy Taubin on Michael Almereyda's Tesla

Steven Parrino, Bradley “The Beast” Field R.I.P., 1997, acrylic, glitter, and electrical tape on canvas, 33 3⁄8 × 58 1⁄4 × 54 3⁄8". © The Steven Parrino Estate.

BLASTED ALLEGORIES

Fabrice Stroun on the art of Steven Parrino

AUTONOMOUS DETERMINATION

Alan Gilbert on the Rojava Film Commune

Federal agents in Portland, OR, July 29, 2020. Photo: Brandon Bell/New York Times/Redux.

PROFITEER MOTIVE

Catherine Besteman on militarizing the pandemic

STAKING CLAIM

Rosalyn Deutsche on “Ode to the Sea: Art From Guantánamo Bay”

Stanley Whitney, Untitled (Can You Hear Us . . . ), 2020, watercolor, graphite, and crayon on paper, 10 1⁄2 × 10 1⁄2".

PROJECT: STANLEY WHITNEY

David Velasco

PROJECT: NICOLE R. FLEETWOOD

Nicole R. Fleetwood

Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration (detail), 2014–, graphite on paper, approx. 600 drawings, each 12 × 9".

PROJECT: MARK LOUGHNEY

James “Yaya” Hough, Untitled, 2004, mixed-media on paper, 33 × 32 1⁄2".

PROJECT: JAMES HOUGH

Jared Owens, The corner cell, 2020, acrylic, oil stick, debris from the prison yard of the Federal Correctional Institution, Fairton, NJ, 48 × 44".

PROJECT: JARED OWENS

Tameca Cole, Dark Chaos: The Aftermath, 2020, newsprint, magazine clipping, photograph, and graphite on paper, 14 × 17".

PROJECT: TAMECA COLE

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Latiff Mohidin, Pagoden (Pagodas), 1961, ink on paper, 5 7⁄8 × 4 1⁄8". From the series “Pago Pago,” 1960–69.

Kevin Chua on “Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960–1969)”

Richard Bosman, Night Studio, 1979, acrylic on paper, 30 × 22".

New York

Rami George, Untitled (with my father), 2020, HD video, color, sound, 20 minutes 30 seconds.

Boston

Tausif Noor on Rami George

Sharif Farrag, Sore Eyes, Tasting Strawberries, 2020, glazed porcelain, 13 1⁄2 × 10 × 10".

Los Angeles

View of “Native Art Department International,” 2020. From left: Installation, 2020; Untitled (Carl Beam), 2017; Hot Tip Tiger Tail, 2018–20.

Toronto

Gabrielle Moser on Native Art Department International

Bridget Moser, My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists, 2020, HD video, color, sound, 21 minutes 57 seconds. Bridget Moser.

Saskatoon

Charlene K. Lau on Bridget Moser

Lewis Hammond, Attachment, 2020, oil on linen, 32 × 51".

Mexico City

Gaby Cepeda on Lewis Hammond

Juan José Olavarría, Padre, eres tú o no eres o quién eres? (Father, Is It You or Not or Who Are You?), 2016, earth and oil on canvas, 47 1⁄4 × 78 3⁄4".

Lima

Luis Pérez-Oramas on Juan José Olavarría

No Martins, Campo minado (self-portrait) (Mine Field [Self-Portrait]), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 7'2 5/8" × 14'1 1/4".

London

Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Mon produit (My Product), 2020, polyester resin, clothes, natural hair, gloves, polyethylene. Installation view. Photo: Aurélien Mole.

Paris

View of “Richard Artschwager,” 2020. Photo: Erika Ede. © Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Bilbao

Joaquín Jesús Sánchez on Richard Artschwager

Tendai Mupita, SaNdawatya, 2020, ink, acrylic, and gold leaf on paper, 68 1⁄2 × 60 1⁄2".

Rome

Ida Panicelli on Tendai Mupita

Tomás Saraceno, Thermodynamic Constellation, 2020, Mylar balloons, rope. Installation view. Photo: Ela Bialkowska.

Florence

Veronica Santi on Tomás Saraceno

Sue Williams, Purple Choke, 1995, oil on canvas, 15 × 18".

Zurich

Adam Jasper on Sue Williams

Julia Haller, Untitled, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 55 1⁄8 × 39 3⁄4".

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Julia Haller

Sophie Reinhold, Das kann das leben kosten (That Could Cost You Your Life), 2020, oil on marble powder on jute, 55 × 43 1⁄4".

Berlin

siren eun young jung, A Performing by Flash, Afterimage, Velocity, and Noise, 2019, three-channel HD video projection, color, sound, 27 minutes 36 seconds. Installation view.

Düsseldorf

Noemi Smolik on siren eun young jung

Mindaugas Navakas, Objektas nr. 10 (Object no. 10), 2019, porcelain, aluminum, steel spring, granite, 727⁄8 × 13 3⁄4 × 13 3⁄4".

Vilnius

Neringa Černiauskaitė on Mindaugas Navakas

Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereotip (Pergamon Stereotype), 2019–20, architectural construction with thirteen-channel sound, speakers, amplifiers, computer, audio interface, wood, metal, molton curtain. Installation view. Photo: flufoto.

Istanbul

Kaya Genç on Cevdet Erek

Musquiqui Chihying, The Jog, 2014, two-channel HD video, color, silent, 1 minute. From “Meditations in an Emergency.”

Beijing

Yang Beichen on “Meditations in an Emergency”

Andrew Luk, Haunted, Salvaged, 2020, extruded polystyrene foam, paint thinner, expanding spray foam, cement, concrete, steel, polyurethane, sea glass, rotating motor, UV resin, aerosol paint, nylon, 12'1 5⁄8" × 28'2 5⁄8" × 16'3 1⁄4".

Hong Kong

Hera Chan on Andrew Luk and Chu Teh-Chun

Yun Hyong-Kuen, Burnt Umber & Ultramarine Blue, 1999, oil on linen, 89 5⁄8 × 71 1⁄2".

Seoul

Shinyoung Chung on Yun Hyong-keun

Ross Manning, Bricks and Blocks, 2016, LCD TV, video camera, fluorescent lights, mirror, 37 1⁄8 × 48 × 35 1⁄2".

Lismore

Wes Hill on Ross Manning