Recently added articles from Artforum International:
Notes on jokes.(EDITOR'S LETTER)
Jan 01, 2008; ... JOHN BALDESSARI, RADICAL PHILOSOPHER? You'd be forgiven for laughing out loud at the question, since the generally affable septuagenarian artist who some thirty-five years ago could be found humbly waving goodbye to sailboats (as they came into port) is not usually the first person ...
Venice revisited: Robert Storr responds to his critics.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008; ... It is October, and I am back in the Serenissima for the awards ceremonies of the Fifty-second Venice Biennale. Today, I sit at a keyboard in an office above the Grand Canal listening to Charles Aznavour crooning "Que c'est triste Venise." Tunga chose that camp classic as the barbed theme ...
Critic's critic.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In her review of the Venice Biennale, Jessica Morgan puts down Robert Storr's selection and installation hard, which is her right. But her spiteful ad hominem attack on Storr is beyond the pale of art criticism. Indeed, she creates a fictional person rather than the real one who has ...
The eyes had it: Robert Pincus-Witten, Jeff Koons, and Haim Steinbach on Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007).(PASSAGES)(Biography)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ROBERT PINCUS-WITTEN ILEANA SONNABEND'S obituary appeared in the New York Times of October 24, 2007. I read it with an equanimity that took me by surprise, having assumed that, after decades of quasi-Oedipal affection, I would be laid low by the news--hardly unexpected--of her ...
State of denial: Amy Taubin on 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.(FILM)(Movie review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THIS IS ONE TOUGH FILM, this 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. As sparingly made as it is unsparing emotionally, Cristian Mungiu's second feature won the Palme d'Or at Cannes 07, confirming that a Romanian New Wave has indeed broken, seemingly overnight. In the past several years, three other ...
Sounding the fury: Julia Bryan-Wilson on Kirsten Forkert and Mark Tribe.(PERFORMANCE)
Jan 01, 2008; ... "THE ART WORLD IS A POISON in the community of artists and must be removed by obliteration," asserted Carl Andre at a late-1960s meeting of the Art Workers' Coalition, calling for the demolition of a system that he deemed a source of "infinite corruption." His demands were sweeping: "No ...
Good vibrations: Damon Krukowski on Rainforest IV.(SOUND)
Jan 01, 2008; ... FOR ITS TWO PERFORMANCES of postwar avant-gardist David Tudor's Rainforest IV last fall at The Kitchen in New York, the group Composers Inside Electronics suspended a single wire object in the passageway between lobby and theater. Passing under this birdcagelike construction, entrants ...
Mergers and admonitions: Sabeth Buchmann and Achim Hochdorfer on the Generali Foundation.(SLANT)
Jan 01, 2008; ... AT A SEPTEMBER 2007 press conference announcing the merger of the Generali Foundation and the Bawag Foundation, representatives of the two Vienna art institutions stood smiling beneath the neon script of Cerith Wyn Evans's 2003 sculpture Scenes from a Marriage--apparently unaware that the ...
Heather Rowe: Heather Rowe recently had a solo exhibition at D'Amelio Terras in New York, where she is based. Her work will appear in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.(TOP TEN)
Jan 01, 2008 ... 1 ONE WEEK (1920) In this short film, Buster Keaton attempts to construct a house from a number of mismarked boxes from the Portable House Company. The result is a warped architecture of misused parts: The walls are inverted, the floor becomes a springboard, the porch railing a ladder ....
Previews: three times a year Artforum looks ahead to the coming season. The following survey previews fifty shows opening around the world between January and April.(Calendar)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Liam Gillick WITTE DE WITH CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS January 19-March 24 Curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen With a practice that moves between installation and text, sculpture and architecture, Liam Gillick has long ...
Pious reflections: Joseph Leo Koerner on "Dutch primitives".(FROM THE VAULT)
Jan 01, 2008; ... IN THE EARLY 1400s, painters in the Low Countries created a new species of image. With wood panels as their favored support, and handling their medium of oil-based pigments in unprecedented ways, they crafted glazed and layered likenesses the only real-world equivalents of ...
Art day's night: Brian Sholis on the 5th Berlin Biennial.(INTERNATIONAL NEWS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... IF THERE IS ANY CONSENSUS regarding the contemporary mega-exhibition, it's that it is in need of reinvention. And, increasingly, a focus on performance and pedagogy seems to offer one way forward. The prime example here is Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle, and Florian Waldvogel's attempt, ...
On the road.(PREVIEWS)(Table)(Calendar)
Jan 01, 2008 ... LISTED BELOW ARE PREVIOUSLY PREVIEWED EXHIBITIONS ON TOUR BETWEEN JANUARY 1 AND APRIL 30. <Pre> VENUE DATES NEW YORK Takashi MurakamiBrooklyn Museum Apr. 4-July 13 Olafur Eliasson Museum of ...
Man with a movie camera: Helen Molesworth on the art of Phil Collins.
Jan 01, 2008; ... PHIL COLLINS AND KARAOKE were both born in the 1970s, the decade during which, according to the novelist Michael Cunningham, dreams of revolution faded and people began to dance. And dancing is at the center of the project that is probably Collins's best known to date, the seven-hour ...
1000 words: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn; Talk about All Together Now, 2008.
Jan 01, 2008; ... "ONCE UPON A TIME, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise," begins the Beatles's 1968 animated extravaganza, Yellow Submarine. As the opening line's turn on the cliche suggests, visions of other worlds--past, future, or parallel--have popped up repeatedly throughout history as the ...
Modifying the grammar: Paolo Virno's works on virtuosity and exodus.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Exodus is the transfer to political praxis of the heuristic procedure, [ ...] which the mathematicians define as 'variation of data': giving precedence to secondary or heterogeneous factors, we move gradually from a determined problem: subjection or insurrection, to a totally different ...
A new geometry.
Jan 01, 2008; ... ITALY'S AUTONOMIA MOVEMENT was less a group of people or an organization to which one belonged than a milieu or network of spaces through which elements of the Italian "extreme" Left moved. Though in many areas of the country autonomia had its base in the student and women's movements, ...
Jokes and innovative action: for a logic of change.
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Leaky Kettle: Concerning the Difficulty of Applying a Rule THE INCONSPICUOUS LABORATORY of the transformation of a form of life lies within the dissimilar, and at times contradictory, ways in which it is possible to apply a rule to a particular case. The "creativity" of the ...
Filling the void: Martin Herbert on the art of Mungo Thomson.
Jan 01, 2008; ... MUNGO THOMSON'S The Collected Live Recordings of Bob Dylan 1963-1995, 1999, is a compact disc with a hole in the middle--not just literally, but metaphorically, too. For while the recording encompasses, in chronological order, all the live albums made by the Minnesota-born ...
Alan Gilbert on Julia Meltzer and David Thorne.(OPENINGS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... LOS ANGELES-BASED ARTISTS Julia Meltzer and David Thorne have long taken an interest in excavating the past as a means of examining the complex interplay of information, knowledge, and political control. Continuing in the vein of the socially engaged artistic practices they had previously ...