Recently added articles from Artforum International:
Contributors.
Jun 22, 2008 ... ANDREA FRASER is a Los Angeles-based performance and video artist who has been exhibiting her work since the mid-'80s. A member of the feminist group the V-Girls from 1986 to 1996, she has performed solo at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1986), and the MICA Foundation, New ...
Market correction.(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2008; ... AS PAUL MCCARTHY'S principal representative for many years, I read Sarah Thornton's "Market Index" article on McCarthy's work with particular interest. After an introduction to his early career, she states, "From 1992 onward, McCarthy had no shortage of exhibition opportunities in the US, ...
Liar, liar.(Richard Prince)(Reprint)
Jun 22, 2008 ... I HAVE NO ILLUSIONS about being able to control how the "Pictures" show I organized at Artists Space in 1977 will be understood historically, but for the record I did not, as Richard Prince claims in "Richard Prince Talks to Steve Lafreniere" [March 2003], ask him to be in the exhibition ...
A New novel.(EDITOR'S LETTER)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; ... IF ONLY IN THE SPIRIT of rhetorical gamesmanship, it seems entirely worthwhile to ask whether the concept of the avant-garde, or neo-avant-garde, is not totally irrelevant when it comes to discussions of artistic production today--even if considered simply a kind of measure against which ...
In the weave of reason: TONY OURSLER and Mike Kelley on David Askevold (1940-2008).(PASSAGES)
Jun 22, 2008; ... MY PERSONAL COSMOLOGY of Conceptualism starts with snakes: David Askevold's Kepler's Music of the Spheres Played by Six Snakes, 1971-74, to be exact. As a student at CalArts in 1977, a time when the art department was known for its Conceptual slant--in retrospect, this could have been the ...
The ends of the parabola: Kevin Pratt on Sanford Kwinter's far from Equilibrium.(BOOKS)(Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... FAR FROM EQUILIBRIUM: ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN CULTURE, BY SANFORD KWINTER. BARCELONA/NEW YORK: ACTAR, 2008. 196 PAGES. $33. WIDELY RECOGNIZED in academic circles as an architectural polymath, Sanford Kwinter is famous among students for beginning each semester by first ...
Just a gigolo; James Quandt on the films of Jacques Nolot.(FILM)
Jun 22, 2008; ... IN THE FILMS OF JACQUES NOLOT, weakness of the flesh implies bodily decline as much as unbidden desire. Nolot's unflinching camera looks with equal asperity and tenderness on the corpse of an old woman with its hairless vagina, spreading breasts, and wizened skin; aging drag queens in ...
Rough Ride; Amy Taubin on Ken Jacobs.(FILM)(Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World )
Jun 22, 2008; ... IN 2006, KEN JACOBS took a one-minute film produced in 1903 by Thomas Edison and made of it an infernal machine. The title of the Edison film is Razzle Dazzle. Jacobs calls his version Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World. The subtitle refers to the world of the original film, which Jacobs ...
One and all one; Howard Singerman on Sherrie Levine and The Mother of Us All.(PERFORMANCE)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... FROM THE BEGINNING, Sherrie Levine's work has been about names and how to count them. Depending on how one took her early appropriations, they seemed to promise a practice without origins or names and, as Craig Owens wrote, without "the paternal rights assigned to the author by law." (1) ...
Art of authenticity; Catherine Wood on "Our Literal Speed".(PERFORMANCE)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... CHAIRING A TALK at the Frieze Art Fair in London in 2006, art historian and critic Claire Bishop observed that the live panel discussion had, in recent years, replaced performance art as the home of "authenticity." Paradoxically, her comment put into relief the performed quality of the ...
Bidden city; Sean Keller on the Beijing Olympics.(ARCHITECTURE)
Jun 22, 2008; ... THE OLYMPIC GAMES as we know them were born out of a late-nineteenth-century marriage of classical mythology and political science fiction. They decree that every four years all the nations of the world will set aside their political struggles and come together to compete in proxy battles ...
New Monuments; Keller Easterling on Norman Foster's Crystal Island.(ARCHITECTURE)
Jun 22, 2008; ... IF YOU E-MAIL Norman Foster's London-based architecture firm to request information about his design for Crystal Island, a project recently approved for construction in Moscow, you will receive, with no accompanying note, a terse list of "facts and figures." Perhaps this response is ...
In reflection; Andrew Hultkrans on the Glass House Conversations.(ON SITE)
Jun 22, 2008; ... PHILIP JOHNSON is welcoming houseguests again, if only as (g)host emeritus. Since last summer, the Glass House (1949)-Johnson's master's thesis and country home in New Canaan, Connecticut--has been opened to the great unwashed via guided tours, thanks to the efforts of director Christy ...
Peripheral Visions; Jessica Morgan on between Bridges and London's alternative spaces.(ON SITE)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ALONG WITH THE ARRIVAL of the supersize gallery in London, the past few years have witnessed the opening of a handful of galleries that barely warrant the term space, given that they are so entirely lacking in square footage. For example, Ancient & Modern, run by Rob Tufnell and Bruce ...
Past imperfect; Nikki Columbus on home works IV in Beirut.(ON SITE)
Jun 22, 2008; ... IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, group shows of Middle Eastern artists have become increasingly frequent in the West: This spring, "Les Inquiets" (The Anxious) took place at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; last year saw "In Focus," three interrelated shows in London; and "Without Boundary" was staged ...
Guilty pleasures; Meredith Martin on the Rococo.(SLANT)(Rococo: The Contionuing Curve, 1730-2008)
Jun 22, 2008; ... AROUND 1720, the French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau painted a signboard for his dealer's shop that depicted an idealized view of the gallery on Paris's Pont Notre-Dame. Downplaying its commercial status, Watteau portrayed the shop as a setting for elite sociability, while heralding the new ...
Memo from Turner; Jonathan Crary on J. M. W. Turner.(SLANT)
Jun 22, 2008; ... IN RECENT DECADES, the occasion of a major Turner exhibition has invariably elicited outpourings of admiring, even marveling commentary on the artist's work, and the response to the current traveling retrospective--soon to open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York--has thus far ...
The New Yorker; Depbrah Solomon speaks with Peter Schjeldahl.(SLANT)(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; ... DEBORAH SOLOMON SPEAKS WITH PETER SCHJELDAHL DEBORAH SOLOMON: Your new book is, in fact, your fourth collection of criticism, and you have been reviewing contemporary art with only minor interruptions since 1965-probably longer than anyone else in this country. What is it like ...
Nico Muhly; New York-based composer Nico Muhly has worked with composers ranging from Philip Glass to Bjork, and has written pieces for the American Ballet Theatre and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His compositions have debuted at venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the kitchen. Mothertongue, his second album, will be released in July.(TOP TEN)(Personal account)
Jun 22, 2008 ... 1. LUISE BOURGEOIS (TATE MODERN, LONDON) First of all, she is ninety-five years old, which is incredible. Second, this survey was the most expensive art show I have ever been to; it was ten pounds and worth every penny. I have always found Bourgeois's giant spider sculptures (one of which, ...
Rites of silence; Johanna Burton on the Art of Wade Guyton.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... JUST WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? Poised in front of Wade Guyton's work, admirers and detractors alike often find themselves asking the same question. It's not so much a query regarding the artist's character--though of course it's partially that, too--but rather the expression of a genuine ...