Recently added articles from Artforum:
Mirror Image
Sep 01, 2008; Griffin, Tim ... A COROLLARY of Marshall McLuhan's famous adage that art is a "radar environment" uniquely suited for making clear the effects of media in culture is his lesser known analogy between those effects and the sound waves that become visible along an airplane's wings just before it breaks the sound ...
LETTERS
Sep 01, 2008; Houellebecq, Michel ... On Neutral Grounds MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ ON ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET In preparing the special focus on French novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet published in our Summer issue, we approached writer Michel Houellebecq, who many would say has taken up Robbe-Grillet's mantle as the ...
In Sight
Sep 01, 2008; Deming, Richard ... In Sight RICHARD DEMING ON P. ADAMS SITNEY'S EVES UPSIDE DOWN EYES UPSIDE DOWN: VISIONARY FILMMAKERS AND THE HERITAGE OF EMERSON, BY P. ADAMS SITNEY. NEWYORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008. 432 PAGES. $28. THERE IS A MOMENT in Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Intellect" (1841) that has ...
For the People
Sep 01, 2008; Temkin, Ann ... ANN TEMKIN ON ANNE D'HARNONCOURT (1943-2008) NOW AND THEN, as a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I found myself speculating about what Anne d'Harnoncourt might have done had she not followed in her father's footsteps as a museum director. University president? Supreme Court ...
Look Back
Sep 01, 2008; Kelley, Jeff ... JEFF KELLEY ON Al WEIWEI SINCE NOVEMBER 2005, artist Ai Weiwei has maintained a blog devoted to political commentary and artworld documentation, his entries driven by serial streams of photographs that not only represent but also enact-and even help negotiate, via the seduction, ...
Century Marks
Sep 01, 2008; Molesworth, Helen ... HELEN MOLESWORTH ON RICHARD SERRA AND ANDRÉ CADERE IT WASN'T TOO LONG AGO that this magazine reviewed Richard Serra's quasi-retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York [Artforum, October 2007]. It was clear that critic David Joselit was less than enthusiastic. For ...
On the Road
Sep 01, 2008; Weiss, Jeffrey ... JEFFREY WEISS ON LAND ART TODAY LAND ART, whatever else it is, can be identified with a specific narrative of American space: the road trip. I draw this notion from T.S.O.Y.W., a 2007 film by Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler included in the Whitney Biennial this past spring. Distantly ...
Forum and Function
Sep 01, 2008; Herbert, Martin ... MARTIN HERBERT ON "EXPERIMENT MARATHON REYKJAVÍK" INTRODUCING "EXPERIMENT MARATHON REYKJAVÍK," a two-day event that took place this past May in the Hafnarhús, the Icelandic capital's contemporary art museum, artist Olafur Eliasson described the occasion as "a parallel parliament that ...
Man and Machine
Sep 01, 2008; Birnbaum, Daniel ... DANIEL BIRNBAUM ON RENZO PIANO'S PONTUS HULTÉN STUDY GALLERY THE MACHINERY IS QUITE LOUD, and that is something that the architect Renzo Piano, its designer, likes. In fact, as he explained to me this past summer, standing in a gallery of Moderna Museet in Stockholm-where his contraption ...
Service Aesthetics
Sep 01, 2008; Madoff, Steven Henry ... STEVEN HENRY MADOFF ON PERSONAL TRANSACTIONS IN ART THE ATTITUDES AND TECHNIQUES of artists have clearly buckled and changed many times over the past century, as industrialism became postindustrialism and first-world enterprise shifted from goods to services while manual production was ...
Josef Strau
Sep 01, 2008; Strau, Josef ... 1 CHRIS KRAUS, TORPOR (SEMIOTEXT[E], 2006) More intense than any of the recent literary attempts to portray Europe's dark, post-1989 narrative of traditionalism and neoconservatism, Torpor is probably the book to deal with the past's haunting of the political present. While telling the story of ...
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective
Sep 01, 2008; Mehring, Christine ... MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES September 21, 2008-January 5, 2009 Curated by Ann Goldstein Few postwar artists have proved as fiercely contested yet captivatingly elusive as the German Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997). The myth that has grown around his life and ...
theanyspacewhatever
Sep 01, 2008; Hudson, Suzanne ... NEW YORK SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM October 24, 2008-January 7, 2009 Curated by Nancy Spector The Guggenheim has invited ten artists-including Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Rirkrit Tiravanija-to stage a collective exhibition ...
Catherine Opie: American Photographer
Sep 01, 2008; Bedford, Christopher ... SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM September 26, 2008-January 7, 2009 Curated by Jennifer Blessing "American Photographer," the subtitle of Catherine Opie's midcareer survey at the Guggenheim, is both a statement of fact and a critical provocation. From her now-iconic queer ...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Sep 01, 2008; Sloan, Rachel ... NEW YORK MUSEUM OF MODERN ART September 21,2008-January 5, 2009 Curated by Joachim Pissarro and Sjraar van Heugten That iconic image of Vincent van Gogh painting beside the Rhône River at night wearing a candle-studded hat may be a tired cliche, but it underscores ...
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937
Sep 01, 2008; Rich, Sarah K ... MUSEUM OF MODERN ART November 2, 2008-January 12, 2009 Curated by Anne Umland In 1927, Joan Miró famously declared he would "assassinate painting." His plan, as it turns out, was not to blow a hole in the medium's heart, but to infiltrate its ranks and slip slow poison in ...
Yael Bartana
Sep 01, 2008; Decter, Joshua ... P.S. 1 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART October 19, 2008-January 19, 2009 Curated by Klaus Biesenbach Yael Bartana delivers resonant poetic reflections on Israeli society, involving bold imagistic and metaphoric forays into the vicissitudes-both human and geographic-of the ...
William Eggleston
Sep 01, 2008; Davis, Tim ... WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART November 7, 2008-January 25, 2009 Curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Thomas Weski Thermodynamics tells us there is a finite amount of energy in the universe, but William Eggleston's work from the past fifty years proves that there is an ...
Elizabeth Peyton
Sep 01, 2008; Rimanelli, David ... NEW YORK NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART October 8, 2008-January 11, 2009 Curated by Laura Hoptman What becomes a legend most? In the 1970s, Lillian Hellman clad in a Blackglama mink did the trick. Nowadays, the grandest compliment that fine art pays to glamour and ...
Ugo Rondinone and Martin Boyce
Sep 01, 2008; Rimanelli, David ... SCULPTURECENTER September 7-November 30 Curated by Mary Ceruti This two-artist exhibition should help corroborate SculptureCenter's renascence, after its longish quiescent period, as a major venue for contemporary exhibitions in New York. If all goes well, the results ...