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Guy Brett with Lea Lublin’s 1975 Interrogations sur l’art, Discours sur l’art (Interrogations into Art, Discourse on Art), Serpentine Gallery, London, May 1975. Photo: Teodoro Maler.
Books
DIALOGIC IMAGINATION
James Meyer on Yve-Alain Bois’s An Oblique Autobiography
Cyril Schäublin, Unrest, 2022, 2K video, color, sound, 93 minutes.
Film
TIME CODE
James Quandt on Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest
*Gerhard Richter in his studio with Spiegel (Mirror), 1981, and Abstraktes Bild (Faust) (Abstract Painting [Faust]), 1980, Düsseldorf, 1981. © Gerhard Richter.
Slant
FAUST FORWARD
John Ganz on Gerhard Richter
Spread from Barbara T. Smith’s Coffin: Die Cut, Rick Hard-Bound, 1966–67, Xeroxes, spiral bound, 11 1⁄4 × 17 3⁄4". From the series “Coffin,” 1966–67.
On Site
HER OWN RISK
Michael Ned Holte on Barbara T. Smith’s “The Way to Be”
Leonora Carrington, El mundo mágico de los mayas (The Magical World of the Mayans), 1963–64, casein tempera on panel, 6' 6 3⁄4" × 14' 1 3⁄4". © Estate of Leonora Carrington/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
On Site
GODS AND MONSTERS
Susan L. Aberth on “Leonora Carrington: Revelación”
Meditation Ocean Constellation, M.O. Turtlegrass Meadow, 2023, six-channel HD video, color, sound, 67 minutes. Photo: Hope Ginsburg.
On Site
DEEP BREATHING
Annie Dell’Aria on “Meditation Ocean”
Nam June Paik, McLuhan Caged, 1967, video tape recorder, shadow-mask color television screen, stereo tape recorder, stereo tape amplifier. Installation view, Galerina Bonino, New York, 1968. © Nam June Paik Estate.
Features
NO RESOLUTION: VIDEO ART IN AND AROUND THE CONTEMPORARY
Alex Kitnick on video art’s elusive past and tenuous future
Bruce Nauman, Bouncing in the Corner, No. 1, 1968, video, black-and-white, sound, 60 minutes. © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Features
THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE
Seth Price recalls his days working at EAI and coming around to Bruce Nauman’s performance tapes
View of “The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age,” 1968–69, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Left: Nam June Paik, Rondo Electronique, 1966–68. Right: Nam June Paik, McLuhan Caged, 1967; Nixon Tape, 1965; Lindsay Tape, 1967. Photo: James Matthews. © Nam June Paik Estate.
Features
THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE
Tina Rivers Ryan on “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”
Dara Birnbaum, Tiananmen Square: Break-In Transmission, 1990, five-channel digital video installation (color, sound, various durations), surveillance switcher, custom hardware. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2023. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.
Features
THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE
Martine Syms discusses Dara Birnbaum’s 1990 installation Tiananmen Square: Break-In Transmission
View of “People Make Television,” 2023, Raven Row, London. Photo: Marcus J. Leith.
Features
THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE
Erika Balsom on “People Make Television”
Ching Jan Lee and Shu Lea Cheang, Taiwan: The Generation After Martial Law, 1990, video, color, sound, 58 minutes.
Features
THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE
Tiffany Sia writes on the 1990 video Taiwan: The Generation After Martial Law
!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Ashley Madison Angels at Work in Fort Worth, 2023, LCD screens, metal trolley stands, video player, cables, pink lighting gels, neon lights, five-channel HD video (color, sound, 8 minutes 7 seconds). Installation view, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Photo: Kevin Todora.
Features
THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE
Anna Lovatt on “I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen”
John Knecht, The Possible Fog of Heaven (detail), 1993, digital video, color, sound, 10 minutes 47 seconds.
Features
THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE
Cory Arcangel on John Knecht’s The Possible Fog of Heaven, 1993
Carrie Mae Weems, The In Between (detail), 2022–23, mixed media. Installation view, Calligraphy Square, Sharjah, 2023. Photo: Haupt & Binder.
Features
PREVAILING LATITUDE
Siddhartha Mitter on the Sharjah Biennial
Frida Orupabo, Untitled, 2019, collage and paper pins mounted on aluminum, 52 × 48 3⁄8".
Features
OPENINGS: FRIDA ORUPABO
Portia Malatjie on Frida Orupabo
Sondra Perry, Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II, 2013, two-channel HD video, color, silent, 9 minutes.
Sondra Perry, Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II, 2013, two-channel HD video, color, silent, 9 minutes.
May 2023
VOL. 61, NO. 9
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