MAY 2008

SELECTIONS FROM THE MAGAZINE:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREVIEW

· US News: the 55th Carnegie International

· Vault: the Dead Sea Scrolls

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

· THE GREAT REFUSAL

FEATURES

· A REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS NEVER ENDS

· INVISIBLE CITIES: HENRI LEFEBVRE’S THE EXPLOSION

· THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE

· LEARNING CURVE: RADICAL ART AND EDUCATION IN GERMANY

· IMMANENT DOMAIN: THE FILMS OF PETER HUTTON

EDITOR’S LETTER

· LESSONS OF ’68

MAY ’68

· The student revolt at Columbia University

· Suck

TOP TEN

· Qiu Zhijie

REVIEWS

· Focus: Philip Taaffe

· Focus: Martin Puryear

· Table of contents

· Send a letter to the editor
 

Before his death in 1994, Donald Judd spent two decades buying up land in West Texas and installing his work in the buildings of the old Fort D.A. Russell, now home to the Chinati Foundation. The Am Vets Building in the center of Marfa, site of last weekend’s symposium on Judd’s writings, felt like an installation of an entirely different sort. Hand-painted panels with US military... READ ON

INTERNATIONAL NEWS DIGEST
THIS WEEK: ART FORUM BERLIN CHANGES DIRECTORS; TROUBLE FOR ARA PACIS MUSEUM?; THE FATE OF ILE SEGUIN; SERRA AT "MONUMENTA"; HOFMANN DIES AT 102

That this retrospective—which features some eighty paintings and thirty-odd drawings and sculptures dating from the late 1920s to 1980—is organized by the Kunstmuseum's extraordinarily clear-sighted director Dieter Schwarz should in itself prompt us to give Bill a second look. READ ON

US EXHIBITIONS
Frida Kahlo, Martin Puryear, "On Procession"... MORE

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
"Traces of the Sacred", Max Bill... MORE

OPENING THIS WEEK
In Los Angeles, New York, Düsseldorf, Reykjavík. MORE

Conversations on Contemporary Art and Culture

Dan Attoe addresses his subjects with genuine empathy, existential inquiry, integrity, and an awareness of moral ambiguity. READ ON

NEW YORK

· Jenny Perlin

· An-My Lê

· Mel Bochner

· Alexander Brodsky

· "Shaker Design: Out of This World"

· “Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960–2000”

LOS ANGELES

· Soo Kim

· Bernard Rudofsky

· "Make Art/Stop AIDS"

SAN FRANCISCO

· "Cut: Revealing the Section"

ATLANTA

· Jack Whitten

CHICAGO

· Shannon Stratton

· "Ed Ruscha and Photography"

DETROIT

· Amy Vogel

MILWAUKEE

· "Indexical Frontiers"

NASHVILLE

· Angelo Filomeno

WASHINGTON, DC

· Paula Rego

LONDON

· Mat Collishaw

· Lee Ufan

PARIS

· André Cadere

· David Renggli

BERLIN

· Dan Attoe

· Jorinde Voigt

· Christian Schönwälder

MILAN

· Rirkrit Tiravanija

· Luis Molina-Pantin

· Andrea Sala

PRATO

· Emilio Isgrò

TURIN

· "Greenwashing"

VIENNA

· Andy Coolquitt, Frank Haines, William J. O'Brien

· Dominik Steiger

ATHENS

· "Sampling"

STOCKHOLM

· Jonas Dahlberg

TOKYO

· Naoya Hatakeyama