TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2022

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Arthur Jafa, AGHDRA, 2021, 8K video, color and black-and-white, sound, 75 minutes.

September 2022, Vol. 61, No. 1

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COLUMNS

Eva Hesse, Expanded Expansion, 1969, fiberglass, polyester resin, latex, cheesecloth. Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2022. Photo: Midge Wattles and Ariel Ione Williams. © The Estate of Eva Hesse.

EDITOR’S LETTER

David Velasco on LOVE’S WORK

Toyo Miyatake, Row of Barracks, ca. 1942–45, gelatin silver print, 8 × 9 7⁄8".

on site

Jacob Hashimoto on “No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration”

View of “Arthur Jafa: Live Evil,” 2022, La Grande Halle, Luma Foundation, Arles, France. From left: Foxy Lady Latour, 2022; Untitled, 2022; Albert Ayler, 2022. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.

on site

Olamiju Fajemisin on Arthur Jafa

Pak, Cloud Monument Dark (detail), 2020, NFT, digital image.

interview

Hans Ulrich Obrist talks with Pak

Zoe Zenghelis (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), The Egg of Columbus Centre, 1973, acrylic on card, 17 3⁄8 × 20 7⁄8".

architecture

Samuel Medina on Zoe Zenghelis

Jimmy ScreamerClauz, When Black Birds Fly, 2015, digital video, color and black-and-white, sound, 124 minutes.

top ten

Ethel Cain shares her top ten

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Edgar Arceneaux, Skinning the Mirror #5 (detail), 2021, silver nitrate, acrylic paint, and glass on canvas, 48 3⁄4 × 37 1⁄2".

STRANGE WEBS

Elizabeth Schambelan on criticism

A LODESTAR THAT RADIATES WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT

Donald Judd assembling his work at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1966. Photo: Bob Adelman. © Bob Adelman Estate.

THE ART WE LOVE

Rosalind E. Krauss, Ralph Lemon, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen

Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, 1958, 35 mm, color, sound, 128 minutes. John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart).

THE ART WE LOVE

Amy Taubin, David Rimanelli, and Precious Okoyomon

Jean Vigo, Zéro de conduite (Zero for Conduct), 1933, 35 mm, black-and-white, sound, 44 minutes.

THE ART WE LOVE

Rachel Kushner, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yvonne Rainer, and Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

Jorge Luis Borges, June 1980. Photo: Paola Agosti/Opale/Bridgeman Images.

THE ART WE LOVE

Adrian Piper, Joan Jonas, Anicka Yi, and Martine Gutierrez

Lucinda Childs, Dance, 1979. Performance view, Theatre de la Ville, Paris, October 16, 2014. Music: Philip Glass. Set design: Sol LeWitt. Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images.

THE ART WE LOVE

Ryan Ponder McNamara, Gary Indiana, and Sarah Nicole Prickett

Albert Speer, Zeppelin Field grandstand, 1937, Nuremberg, Germany. Photo: SZ Photo/Bridgeman Images.

Antinomies

Hal Foster on Eva Hesse and Tony Smith

View of “Atis Rezistans (Resistance Artists): Ghetto Biennale,” 2022, St. Kunigundis Church, Kassel. From Documenta 15. Photo: Frank Sperling.

HISTORY IN PIECES

David Joselit on Documenta 15 and the 59th Venice Biennale

Guillaume Dustan, Squat, 2002, video, color, sound, 62 minutes 46 seconds. © G.D. and its estate.

DU MUSST DEIN LEBEN ÄNDERN (DUSTAN DEVIATION)

Bruce Hainley and Wayne Koestenbaum discuss the film work of Guillaume Dustan

Barbara Kruger, Your body is a battleground, 1990, billboard. Installation view, Columbus, OH.

BATTLEGROUNDS

Johanna Fateman on the art of Barbara Kruger

View of “A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence,” 2022, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. From left: Alison Saar, Strange Fruit, 1995; Pat Ward Williams, Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock, 1986. Photo: Clare Britt.

CRITICAL CARE

Huey Copeland Talks with Janet Dees about “A Site of Struggle”

August Sander, Jungbauern (Young Farmers), 1914, gelatin silver print, 9 1⁄4 × 6 3⁄4". © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur–August Sander Archiv, Cologne/ARS, NY.

SAVING FACE

Graham Bader on portraiture in the age of artificial intelligence

PROJECT: RACHEL ROSE

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Gudskul banner, Fridericianum, Kassel, June 11, 2022. Photo: Nicolas Wefers.

Harry Burke on Documenta 15

Detail of ruangrupa’s Harvest Timeline, ruruHaus, Kassel, June 14, 2022. Photo: Frank Sperling.

Abhijan Toto and Pujita Guha for the Forest Curriculum on Documenta 15

Evelyn Statsinger, Cross Currents, 1985, oil on linen, 30 × 40".

New York

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Earring-Object, ca. 1918, steel watch spring, celluloid, ebony bead, brass ear screws, plastic screw guards, pearl earrings, metal wire, wood and glass display, 4 1⁄4 × 4 1⁄4 × 4 1⁄4".

London

Patrick Graham, The Life and Death of Hopalong Cassidy, 1988, tetraptych, mixed media on canvas, overall 6' × 18' 1⁄8".

Dublin

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith on Patrick Graham

Ella Bergmann-Michel, Untitled, 1925, collage, watercolor, pen, and graphite on vellum, 24 1⁄2 × 16 7⁄8".

Paris

Sarah Moroz on Ella Bergmann-Michel

Hadi Fallahpisheh, Getting Closer, 2022, C-print, quilt, 90 × 82".

Biarritz

Ren Ebel on Hadi Fallahpisheh

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, Paleness, 2022, water, diatomaceous earth, Acid Blue 9, dimensions variable. From the Biennale Gherdëina 8.

Val Gardena, Italy

Agnieszka Gratza on Biennale Gherdëina 8

Walter Pichler, TV-Helm (Tragbares Wohnzimmer) (TV Helmet [Portable Living Room]), 1967, gelatin silver print, 17 3⁄8 × 11".

Vienna

Brigitte Huck on Walter Pichler

Allan McCollum, If Love Had Wings: A Perpetual Canon, 1972, canvas, lacquer stain, varnish, silicone adhesive, caulking, 9' 1 1⁄4" × 27' 6 1⁄2". From the series “Constructed Paintings,” 1969–ca. 1974.

Berlin

Michelle Grabner on Allan McCollum

Paulina Olowska, On the Bridge, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 78 3⁄4 × 39 3⁄8".

Jevnaker

Sarah Lookofsky on Paulina Olowska

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Into the White Light, 2020, oil on linen, 59 7⁄8 × 59 7⁄8".

Melbourne

Helen Hughes on Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

View of “Anna Hulačová,” 2022. Photo: Michal Czanderle.

Prague

Noemi Smolik on Anna Hulačová

View of “Daiga Grantiņa,” 2022. Photo: Otto Strazds.

Riga

Neringa Černiauskaitė on Daiga Grantiņa

Hakan Topal, The Golden Cage, 2022, still from the two-channel 4K video component (color, sound, 28 minutes) of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising prints on clay, stamps, postcards, and books.

Istanbul

Kaya Genç on Hakan Topal

Rahima Gambo, Tatsuniya II, 2019, digital video, color, sound, 14 minutes 44 seconds.

Johannesburg

Nkgopoleng Moloi on Rahima Gambo

Emmanuel Tussore, De Cruce (Crucifixion), 2022, wood, metal, sand, dimensions variable. Installation view, Palais de Justice, Dakar. From the 14th Dak’Art Biennial of Contemporary African Art.

Dakar

Allison Young on 14th Dak’Art Biennial of Contemporary African Art

N. S. Harsha, Emission Test, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 75 × 59".

New Delhi

Meera Menezes on N. S. Harsha

Young Joon Kwak, Burn Slow, 2015, HD video, color, sound, 8 minutes 20 seconds.

Seoul

Andrew Russeth on Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) and Young Joon Kwak

View of “Pio Abad,” 2022. Photo: At Maculangan.

Manila

Carlos Quijon Jr. on Pio Abad

Hernán Parada, No puedo ver—Oír—Hablar (I Cannot See—Hear—Speak), 1985, triptych, ink-jet prints on paper, overall 35 3⁄8 × 53 1⁄8".

Santiago

Mariairis Flores Leiva on Hernán Parada

Piero Gilardi, Nido di primavera (Spring Nest), 2020, polychrome sculpture in polyurethane foam, 15 3⁄4 × 15 3⁄4 × 5 1⁄2".

Cold Spring

Elizabeth Mangini on Piero Gilardi

Gerda Wegener, Venus and Amor, ca. 1920, oil on canvas, 31 3⁄4 × 45 3⁄4".

Oyster Bay, NY

Cassie Packard on Gerda Wegener

Carlos Villa, Artist’s Head with Bone Dolls, 1979–80, paper pulp, feathers, bones, hair, rags, 14 1⁄2 × 14 1⁄2 × 8".

Newark

Marcus Civin on Carlos Villa

Jessie Kleemann, Arkhticós Doloros (The Arctic in Pain), 2019, video projection, color, sound, 12 minutes.

Portland, ME

Jared Quinton on North Atlantic Triennial

Dewey Crumpler, Untitled 2, 2018, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 60 × 74".

Richmond, CA

Gabrielle Selz on Dewey Crumpler

David Huffman, Katrina, Katrina, Girl You’re on My Mind, 2006, mixed media on panel, 80 × 108".

San Francisco

Maria Porges on David Huffman

Linda Besemer, Kablooey, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 74 × 86".

Los Angeles

Annabel Osberg on Linda Besemer

Viola Hincapié, Una cosa es una cosa (One Thing is One Thing), 1990. Performance view. Photo: Yohan Lopez.

Medellin

Eugenio Viola on María Teresa Hincapié

Paulo Nazareth, Ovo de Colombo—Guacira (Columbus Egg—Guacira), 2020, resin, various objects, 15 × 9 1⁄2 × 9 1⁄2". From the series “Produtos de genocidio” (Products of Genocide), 2010–.

São Paulo

Camila Belchior on Paulo Nazareth