MAY 2008
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PREVIEW
· US News: the 55th Carnegie International
· Vault: the Dead Sea Scrolls
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
· THE GREAT REFUSAL
The Student Revolt at Columbia University
MAY ‘68: Philosopher and art critic Arthur C. Danto discusses the 1968 student revolt at Columbia University, where he has taught for decades: “The Columbia uprising taught me what it was like to live in history, which consists in the sense that something momentous is taking place. The protest was an exercise in performative improvisation.” READ ON
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
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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
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US EXHIBITIONSFrida Kahlo, Martin Puryear, "On Procession"... MORE
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Conversations on Contemporary Art and Culture
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
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