Recently added articles from Artforum International:
Location, location, location.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2008; ... ALTHOUGH GUY DEBORD never wrote about Daniel Buren's work, Benjamin Buchloh begins his article "The Group That Was (Not) One: Daniel Buren and BMPT" [Artforum, May 2008] by claiming to know what the French philosopher would have said about Buren had he written about him. Under cover of ...
Tomorrow no more.(EDITOR'S LETTER)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2008; ... IN THE UNITED STATES over the past three months, it has become abundantly clear that the points for debate between the two major political parties' presidential candidates are not nuanced matters of policy but rather the most basic tenets of the country's social and economic ...
Space Odyssey: Luc Sante on Manny Farber (1917-2008).(PASSAGES)(Biography)
Nov 01, 2008 ... MANNY FARBER FIRST CAME TO MY ATTENTION by way of a book generically titled Movies, with a generic cover illustration of Bogie, George Raft, and suchlike tinted with cupcake dyes. Heaven knows why I even bothered to open it, but I immediately found myself reading such violently nongeneric ...
Representative governance.(MEDIA)(Essay)
Nov 01, 2008; ... I CAN THINK OF NO BETTER definition of celebrity than a widely circulating image derived from but not identical to a person--in short, an avatar. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was criticized as just such an image. A notorious television ad likened him to ...
Sound barriers.(SOUND)
Nov 01, 2008; ... MP3S CAN PROVOKE a metaphysical crisis in a record collector. If you don't have to pack them when you move, do they exist? To my analog brain, when music is "ripped" from a disc, it enters a mysteriously disembodied space. For once digital files have shuffled off this mortal coil, they ...