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.
Charissa N. Terranova reviews Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes.
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.
In This Issue Katy Siegel, Shaping the Glass, 5 Artist’s Project Tomma Abts, Untitled, 8 Features Christine Mehring, Richter’s Willkür, … More
Features Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Voice as Uncanny Index in Susan Hiller’s The Last Silent Movie, 6 Kristen Olds, “Gay … More
Editor’s Note Lane Relyea, 5 Features Peggy Wang, Art Critics as Middlemen: Navigating State and Market in Contemporary Chinese Art, … More
In This Issue Katy Siegel, Attention Deficit, 5 Features Chris Balaschak, Planet of the Apes: John Szarkowski, My Lai, and … More
Artist’s Project Jeanne Dunning,Tom Thumb, the New Oedipus, 5 Features Forum: Sexing Sculpture: New Approaches to Theorizing the Object Jillian … More
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.
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.
By Nell Andrew
In a recent landmark exhibition on the intersection of art and dance, Danser sa vie, the Centre Georges Pompidou displayed an enigmatic photograph identified as the artist Sophie Taeuber dancing at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. It is not uncommon for a photograph to stand in as an icon of a live event and offer what we hope is access to some present now passed, but for decades scholars have disagreed on the date and location of the Taeuber photograph.
By Jillian Hernandez and Susan Richmond
This forum, which originated as a panel at the 2013 Annual Conference of the College Art Association in New York, developed from the following question: how do sculptural practices uphold or, conversely, equivocate the certainties of gendered and sexual embodiment?
