Artist’s Project Karen L. Schiff, Counter to Type Drawings appear on the front and back covers of this issue, on…
Nueve entradas en 1989
By Tamara Díaz Bringas
Playball, habría dicho el umpire para iniciar aquel partido de béisbol con tantos artistas y ningún pelotero. Playball, habrían oído los jugadores, sospechando tal vez que el juego había empezado en verdad mucho antes de aquel 24 de septiembre de 1989.
Nine Innings in 1989
By Tamara Díaz Bringas
“Play ball!” the umpire would have said to start that baseball game with so many artists and not a single ballplayer. “Play ball!” the players would have heard, perhaps suspecting that the game had really begun long before that 24th of September in 1989.
Between Ecology and Looking Back: Environment and Revisionism in Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
Charissa N. Terranova reviews Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes.
The New Geography: Earth Music and Land Art, Version 2.0
By Mike Maizels
The apologists for “Big Data” seem to be everywhere these days. In forums ranging from TED talks to marketing campaigns, we are now being bombarded by the just-on-the-horizon possibilities of Total Information. It is no surprise that a particular articulation of these ideas has also surfaced in the world of contemporary art practice.
Winter 2012, Vol. 71, No. 4
In This Issue Katy Siegel, Shaping the Glass, 5 Artist’s Project Tomma Abts, Untitled, 8 Features Christine Mehring, Richter’s Willkür,…
Summer 2013, Vol. 72, No. 2
Features Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Voice as Uncanny Index in Susan Hiller’s The Last Silent Movie, 6 Kristen Olds, “Gay…
Spring 2013, Vol. 72, No.1
Editor’s Note Lane Relyea, 5 Features Peggy Wang, Art Critics as Middlemen: Navigating State and Market in Contemporary Chinese Art,…
Fall 2012, Vol. 71, No. 3
In This Issue Katy Siegel, Attention Deficit, 5 Features Chris Balaschak, Planet of the Apes: John Szarkowski, My Lai, and…
Winter 2013, Vol. 72, No. 4
Artist’s Project Jeanne Dunning,Tom Thumb, the New Oedipus, 5 Features Forum: Sexing Sculpture: New Approaches to Theorizing the Object Jillian…
The Aesthetic Gold of a Ravished Spouse of the Godhead
By Elisabeth Kley
Although mystery has surrounded the life of Forrest Bess since he died in 1977, quite a bit of the cloud is dispelled in Chuck Smith’s new book, Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle. A follow-up to a film Smith made in 1999, it is an ideal combination of monograph and biography.
Counter to Type
By Karen L. Schiff
In the Spring 2014 issue of Art Journal, Karen L. Schiff created an artists’s project, Counter to Type. Working from the typography on the covers and selected interior pages of the journal, she used colored pencils to draw on transparent overlays.