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Ilya Kabakov with his 1983–84 The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, New York, August 1988. Photo: Marty Lederhandler/AP.
Passages
ILYA KABAKOV (1933–2023)
Boris Groys on Ilya Kabakov
View of “Louise Nevelson: Moon Garden Plus One,” 1958, Grand Central Moderns, New York. © Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Books
CAFTAN MARVEL
Catherine Quan Damman on Julia Bryan-Wilson’s Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture
Ben Morea, Red Eclipse, 1965, house paint on canvas, 56 × 56".
Books
UP AGAINST THE WALL
J. Hoberman on Nadja Millner-Larsen’s Up Against the Real
Ferdinand Hodler, study for Blossoming, 1911–17, graphite, oil, paper, collage, 29 7⁄8 × 39 1⁄2". © Musée Jenisch Vevey.
VAULT
DRAWING RESTRAINT
Denise Koller on Ferdinand Hodler
Blythe Bohnen, 48 Brushstrokes, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 72 × 96". From the series “Brushstroke,” 1968–72.
ON SITE
MEASURES OF FREEDOM
Suzanne Hudson on Blythe Bohnen
Jason Dodge, Cut a Door in the Wolf (detail), 2021, mixed media. Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. Photo: Piercarlo Quecchia, DSL Studio.
Top Ten
CAConrad
CAConrad shares their top ten
Cover of The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster (Bay Press, 1983).
Features
THE ANTI-AESTHETIC AT FORTY
Hal Foster on The Anti-Aesthetic
Spread from Ed Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations (Cunningham Press, 1963). © Ed Ruscha.
Features
STATION TO STATION
David Platzker on the art of Ed Ruscha
Sung Neung Kyung, Location, 1976, nine gelatin silver prints, each 18 5⁄8 × 10 1⁄2".
Features
CAUSING A SCENE
Joan Kee on the early art of Sung Neung Kyung
Chryssa, The Gates to Times Square, 1964–66, cast aluminum, stainless steel, neon, Plexiglas, paper, 120 × 120 × 120". © Estate of Chryssa, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.
Features
ELECTRIC AFFINITIES
Molly Warnock on the art of Chryssa
Charles Simonds, Dwellings, 1981, clay, sand, sticks, stones, wood, plaster, cloth, chicken wire. Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo: Sheldan C. Collins. © Charles Simonds/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Features
LOST WORLDS
Jules Pelta Feldman on the art of Charles Simonds
Jes Fan, Systems III, 2018, silicone, glass, epoxy, melanin, estradiol, wood, 19 × 48 × 28". From the series “Systems,” 2018.
Features
OPENINGS: JES FAN
Cassie Packard on the art of Jes Fan
Ed Ruscha, Cigarettes (detail), 1956, tempera on board, 15 × 10". © Ed Ruscha.
Ed Ruscha, Cigarettes (detail), 1956, tempera on board, 15 × 10". © Ed Ruscha.
September 2023
VOL. 62, NO. 1
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