Recently added articles from Artforum International:
Location, location, location.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2008; Lelong, Guy ... 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; Griffin, Tim ... 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; Joselit, David ... 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; Krukowski, Damon ... 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 ...
Public equity: Sharon Mizota on Edgar Arceneaux and "Watts House Project".(ON SITE)
Nov 01, 2008; Mizota, Sharon ... BUILT BETWEEN 1921 AND 1955 by Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant cement finisher and tile maker, the iconic Watts Towers are fantastic, airy structures of rebar, mortar, found pottery, and glass that rise almost one hundred feet into the air above the Los Angeles neighborhood for which ...
Battle code: Gene McHugh on Guy Debord's game of war and the Radical Software Group.(TECHNOLOGY)
Nov 01, 2008; Mchugh, Gene ... IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR, an original silver-plated edition of the Game of War, a military-strategy board game released in 1977 by the founder of the Situationist International, Guy Debord, was displayed at the "Form as Strategy" exhibition in New York at Columbia University's Temple Hoyne ...
Nicole Cherubini: Nicole Cherubini is an artist based in New York, where her solo exhibitions at D'Amelio Terras and Smith-Stewart opened last month. Her work, paired with sculptures by Taylor Davis, will be on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Museum 52 in New York next year.(TOP TEN)(List)
Nov 01, 2008; ... 1 POTTERY, POLITICS, ART: GEORGE OHR AND THE BROTHERS KIRKPATRICK, RICHARD D. MOHR (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, 2003) Scholar Richard D. Mohr delves into the lives of George E. Ohr and the brothers Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick, showing how their amazing work is foundational to ...
Spain November 2008.(Calendar)
Nov 01, 2008; ... CAC MALAGA, CENTRO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE MALAGA Calle Alemania, s/n, 29001 Malaga Tel: 952 12 00 55 Fax: 952 21 01 77 E-mail: cacmalaga@cacmalaga.org Web: www.cacmalaga.org Until November 16 MATTHIAS WEISCHER: In the ...
Global outlook.
Nov 01, 2008; ... A self-proclaimed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," R. Buckminster Fuller always had his sights fixed firmly on the future--and a quarter century after his death, it is his future we now inhabit. Our present, as architectural historian SEAN KELLER notes in his overview of ...
Navigating systems.
Nov 01, 2008; Keller, Sean ... WE DON'T SAIL MUCH ANYMORE. This fact helps explain the particular distance that lies between our world and that of R. Buckminster Fuller. For, despite Fuller's incessant, often prescient, projections of the future, and despite the fact that, speaking strictly chronologically, our present ...
Thommayne on Morphosis.
Nov 01, 2008; Mayne, Thom ... J HEARD R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER SPEAK at UCLA years ago, when I was in my early twenties. It was hilarious, a nonstop non sequitur that started at eight o'clock at night, and--although I left at around three--lasted until five or six in the morning, when Fuller and the dozen or so remaining ...
On Animal Estates and edible estates.
Nov 01, 2008; Haeg, Fritz ... I DIDN'T GIVE R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER much thought until 2000, when I moved into my geodesic dome-topped house on Sundown Drive in the hills of Los Angeles. The following year, I began a series of loose, last-minute salon events with no budget (which later transformed into an educational ...
Kevin Pratt on geoengineering.
Nov 01, 2008; Pratt, Kevin ... AS THE EARTH HEATS UP, it is inevitable that solutions will be sought in the application of engineering at a scale commensurate with the scope of the problem--a planetary rappel a I' ordre to be achieved by the mechanization of the geobiosphere. The popular press teems with reports of ...
Helene Furjan on eco-logics.
Nov 01, 2008; Furjan, Helene ... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER LIVED THROUGH the oil crisis of 1973 and '74, and through the energy-conservation and alternative-energy movements it spawned--and then he watched those movements sidelined by corporate interests. It may be that these events only strengthened his conviction that ...
Persistence of vision: Malcolm Turvey on the films of Chantal Akerman.
Nov 01, 2008; Turvey, Malcolm ... HOW DOES ONE CONVERT a film initially designed for theatrical screening into a gallery installation? Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman has taken up this question by reconfiguring two of her decumentaries, D'est (From the East, 1993) and De l'autre cote (From the Other Side, 2002), into ...
Children's Book: Tim Griffin introduces a project.
Nov 01, 2008; Akerman, Chantal ... A CRUCIAL TERM FOR CHANTAL AKERMAN is that of evocation, which she regularly uses to describe the thinking underlying her various projects. Speaking, for instance, about her powerful 1999 documentary, Sud (South)--for which the artist and filmmaker traveled through a swath of rural America ...
Ride lonesome: James Quandt on the films of Lisandro Alonso.
Nov 01, 2008; Quandt, James ... SINCE DEBATES OVER AUTEURISM now seem as distant as Madame de Stael, it was hardly noticed at this year's Cannes International Film Festival, even as the Directors' Fortnight celebrated its fortieth birthday, that the politique's monism had created a small crisis. Through caprice, ...
Katerina Seda.(OPENINGS)
Nov 01, 2008; Herbert, Martin ... ONE SUNNY SATURDAY IN MAY 2003, the majority of citizens in the Czech Republic village of Ponetovice (population approximately three hundred) went shopping at exactly 7 AM and spent ten crowns each on their groceries. They opened their windows at 9, swept their houses at 10, cycled around ...
Louise Bourgeois.
Nov 01, 2008; Guggenheim, Solomon R. ... THE LOUISE BOURGEOIS RETROSPECTIVE at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York--an exhibition that premiered last year at Tate Modern in London--was a mammoth affair with some 150 works, a hundred of them large sculptures. The show began with the early "Femme Maison" (Woman House) ...
