Recently added articles from Artforum:
In Person
Feb 01, 2009; ... INEVITABLY, THE IMAGE THAT ADORNS the cover of this month's issue will elicit from readers a searching double take: The amber vastness and big sky of the American West are immediately recognizable, with the panoramic terrain's sun-scorched sand, silt, and shale having provided a stage for epic ...
The Painted Word
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Painted Word JEFFREY WEISS ON MEL BOCHNER SOLAR SYSTEM & REST ROOMS: WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS, 1965-2007, BY MEL BOCHNER; FOREWORD BY YVE-ALAIN BOIS. CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS, 2008. 240 PAGES. $40. IN HIS PREFACE to this volume, Mel Bochner describes a turning point in his ...
Like It, or Not
Feb 01, 2009; ... Like It, or Not MATTHEW BRANNON ON LYNN SPIGEL'S TV BY DESIGN TV BY DESIGN: MODERN ART AND THE RISE OF NETWORK TELEVISION, BY LYNN SPIGEL; UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2009. 402 PAGES. $28. THE AUDIENCE FOR ART is never static, but it is limited. I have always thought that if your ...
Lot in Life
Feb 01, 2009; ... Lot in Life ALEXANDER STILLE ON GOMORRAH WHEN HIS FATHER DIED, a friend of mine inherited a hotel in the town of Torre Annunziata, the site of a beautiful ancient Roman villa about fifteen miles southeast of Naples, and expected to take over the family business. But within a week ...
Music for iPorts
Feb 01, 2009; ... DAMON KRUKOWSKI ON BLOOM "YOU REALLY HATE MINIMALISM; sighed my friend Wayne, as he looked over the latest stack of CDs I had brought in for trade to his store. Do I? I had never formulated such an opinion. But if anyone knows your musical tastes better than you, it's the buyer of used ...
I Am Nothing and I Should Be Everything
Feb 01, 2009; ... I Am Nothing and I Should Be Everything BLAKE STIMSON ON "UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE" AT THE MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA THE OLD DREAM OF DOCUMENTARY- namely, that its socially enabled and technologically fortified realism would change the world - has been out of reach for some ...
Erika Vogt
Feb 01, 2009; ... 1 IMAGE LOVERS ANONYMOUS The value, meaning, and utility of images are now being hotly contested by artists as never before. But how freeing, ultimately, is this debate? Should we instead be looking forward, to the liberations that await? Consider these questions in the wake of the 2008 ...
Out of Position
Feb 01, 2009; ... By the time he died, of cancer, in 1997 at age forty-four, MARTIN KIPPENBERGER had generated what was already recognized to be one of the most significant, and prescient, bodies of work from the postwar eraone whose diversity was matched only by its elusiveness and complicity in its own ...
A Hidden Reserve
Feb 01, 2009; ... PAINTING FROM 1958 TO 1965 IN THE LATE 1950s, painting celebrated some of the greatest triumphs in its history, grandly ordained as a universal language of subjective and historical experience in major shows and touring exhibitions. But only a short while later, its very right to exist ...
Josh Smith
Feb 01, 2009; ... 1000 WORDS TALKS ABOUT CURRENTS, 2008- PAPER MIGHT RIP, paint might spill, or the game might be on television, but Josh Smith doesn't stop. The artist's fulgent pictures withstand all diversions and relentlessly multiply - their motifs, in his best-known series, traversing the ...
High-Wire Act
Feb 01, 2009; ... IT'S DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF ALEXANDER CALDER. He is solidly positioned within the pantheon of twentieth-century sculpture but doesn't quite fit the conventional academic narrative that runs from Picasso's Guitar through David Smith to Minimalism and beyond. He is arguably one of the ...
Cyprien Gaillard
Feb 01, 2009; ... OPENINGS Cyprien Gaillard CYPRIEN GAILLARD'S VIDEO Desniansky Raion, 2007, opens with a view of a Belgrade housing block built in the 1980s. The building - two slightly asymmetrical towers conjoined by a walkway and crowned with a circular observation deck - stands alone in the ...
"Oranges and Sardines"
Feb 01, 2009; ... "Oranges and Sardines" HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES THIS PAST NOVEMBER, to kick off a panel discussion about the exhibition "Oranges and Sardines," curator Gary Garrels asked Amy Sillman - one of the six artists participating in the show - to "describe the situation of abstract ...
Brussels Biennial 1
Feb 01, 2009; ... Brussels Biennial 1 VARIOUS VENUES "BRUSSELS BIENNIAL 1: RE-USED MODERNITY" faces a high bar: One inevitably wonders what justifies its creation now, given the surfeit, apparent exhaustion, and perceived homogeneity of such exhibitions around the world today. The Brussels ...
Cobra
Feb 01, 2009; ... Cobra MUSÉES ROYAUX DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BELGIQUE, BRUSSELS/COBRA MUSEUM VOOR MODERNE KUNST, AMSTELVEEN, THE NETHERLANDS/STEDELIJK MUSEUM SCHIEDAM, THE NETHERLANDS COBRA REMAINS frequently dismissed as a quaint and childlike pictorial style depicting colorful monsters. But the ...
"Notation: Calculation and Form in the Arts"
Feb 01, 2009; ... "Notation: Calculation and Form in the Arts" AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, BERLIN "YOU DONT MISS YOUR WATER," the saying goes, "till your well runs dry." True, I never thought I'd miss Hanne Darboven so much. That was my initial reaction to "Notation," a vastly ambitious show on view last ...
Cindy Sherman
Feb 01, 2009; ... NEW YORK Cindy Sherman METRO PICTURES Looking at Cindy Sherman's recent photos, I thought, eventually, of what in the lit-crit practice of my college years used to be called "image clusters": groups of related metaphors and other verbal figures that run through the works ...
Lothar Baumgarten
Feb 01, 2009; ... Lothar Baumgarten MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY A long hallway separated the two primary elements of Lothar Baumgarten's recent show at Marian Goodman, suggesting the distance between the locales of the projects - one focused on the South American rain forest, the other on the Hudson ...
"Zero in New York"
Feb 01, 2009; ... "Zero in New York" SPERONE WESTWATER A reductivist abstraction embodying moral purification marked the beliefs of Group Zero (1957-1966) or, as it is often called, plainly, Zero. Whether with its white monochromes or its light works made with simple technology, the group would ...
Stan Douglas
Feb 01, 2009; ... Stan Douglas DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY According to Max Brod, the first time Kafka read from The Trial, everyone present, including the author himself, was overcome with laughter. In "Humor, Irony, and the Law," Gilles Deleuze reads this irruption of laughter alongside that ...