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Janet Malcolm, New York, 1981. Photo: Nancy Crampton.
Passages
JANET MALCOLM (1934–2021)
David Salle on Janet Malcolm
Daïchi Saïto, earthearthearth, 2021, 35 mm, color, sound, 30 minutes.
Film
ALCHEMICAL ROMANCE
Ara Osterweil on Daïchi Saïto’s earthearthearth
Young bike riders carry Michelle Lopez’s 2020 Keep Their Heads Ringin’ sound installation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 29, 2020.
Slant
THERE, THERE
Kate Sutton on Protocinema’s “A Few In Many Places”
Sopé Bahké performing at Shanzhai Lyric’s Canal Street Research Association, New York, December 6, 2020. Photo: Constanza Valenzuela.
On Site
CITY ARCHIVES
Jay Sanders on the Canal Street Research Association
Olafur Eliasson, Life (detail), 2021, water, uranine, UV lights, wood, plastic sheet, cameras, kaleidoscopes, common duckweed, dwarf water lilies, European frogbit, European water clover, floating fern, red root floater, shellflower, South American frogbit, water caltrop. Installation view, Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Photo: Pati Grabowicz.
On Site
THE LIFE AQUATIC
Adam Jasper on Olafur Eliasson at the Fondation Beyeler
Still from Normani featuring Cardi B’s 2021 video Wild Side, directed by Tanu Muino.
Top Ten
Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney’s Top Ten
Mahmoud Khaled, Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man (detail), 2017, mixed media.
Features
THE MUSEUM NOW, PART II
Artforum turns to efforts by artists, historians, and curators to rethink the underpinnings of these vaunted institutions
Giuseppe Panza’s unauthorized and decommissioned 1988 fabrication of Donald Judd’s copper untitled, 1974, Sala Luigi di Pietro, Milan, 1988. © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS).
Features
GETTING REAL
Christine Mehring on the Panza Collection Initiative
Mahmoud Khaled, Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man (detail), 2017, mixed media. Installation view, Ark Kültür, Istanbul.
Features
IMPERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Julia Bryan-Wilson on Queer and Trans Artists’ Museums
Hilma af Klint at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 1885. © The Hilma af Klint Foundation.
Features
LUCID DREAMING
Daniel Birnbaum on Hilma af Klint’s institutional imagination
Ouattara Watts, Vertigo #2, 2011, acrylic, paper pulp, fabric, and fur on canvas, 9' 10 1⁄4" × 13' 9 1⁄2" × 33⁄4".
Features
MAXIMUM IMPACT
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on the art of Ouattara Watts
Yuji Agematsu, zip: 02.15.20, mixed media in cigarette-pack cellophane wrapper, 2 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄8 × 1".
Features
CLOSE-UP: DAY AFTER DAY
Yuki Higashino on Yuji Agematsu’s zip: 01.01.2020 . . . 12.31.2020
Shuang Li, Marry Me for Chinese Citizenship, 2015, ink-jet print, 15 3⁄4 × 23 5⁄8".
Features
OPENINGS: SHUANG LI
Travis Jeppesen on Shuang Li
Cameron Rowland, 7.5', 2015, exit height strip, 36 × 1". Installation view, 2021. The height strip allows for identification. Typically it is used at the door of gas stations and convenience stores. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
New York
“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America”
Ciarán Finlayson on “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America”
New Museum
Volunteers boxing produce at Summaeverythang Community Center, Los Angeles, July 2020, an initiative by the artist Lauren Halsey. From left: Lauren Halsey, Anthony Creeden, Summer Humes, Josie Macias, Angel Xotlanihua, Pedro Martinez, and Chris Gibbs. Photo: Allen Chen/SLH Studio.
Volunteers boxing produce at Summaeverythang Community Center, Los Angeles, July 2020, an initiative by the artist Lauren Halsey. From left: Lauren Halsey, Anthony Creeden, Summer Humes, Josie Macias, Angel Xotlanihua, Pedro Martinez, and Chris Gibbs. Photo: Allen Chen/SLH Studio.
September 2021
VOL. 60, NO. 1
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