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Tsai Ming-liang’s Rizi (Days), 2020, 4K video, color, sound, 127 minutes. Kang (Lee Kang-sheng).
Film
TIME IS THE BEST AUTHOR
Erika Balsom on Tsai Ming-liang’s Days
Herman Howard, Untitled, 1965, gelatin silver print, 11 × 14". © Herman Howard/The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.
PHOTOGRAPHY
ANOTHER COUNTRY
Emmanuel Iduma on the Kamoinge Workshop
Photograph from one of Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s photo albums, ca. 1862.
On Site
BEAUTY QUEEN
Christina Catherine Martinez on “Sisi in Private”
Jasper Johns, Flag Study, 1959, watercolor and graphite on found paper envelope, 4 1/8 × 9 1/2". © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
off site
POST MODERN
Michael Lobel on art and the United States Postal Service
Marwa Arsanios, Have you ever killed a bear? or Becoming Jamila, 2013–14, HD video, color, sound, 25 minutes. From “Nine Lives,” 2020, Renaissance Society, Chicago.
Slant
NEW WAVE
Lauren O’Neill-Butler on the Feminist Art Coalition
Park McArthur, Ramps, 2010-2014, 20 access ramps from various art institutions, 5 aluminum signs, vinyl wall text, dimensions variable, detail [An artwork in the form of a web address rendered in black adhesive vinyl lettering adhered to a white wall spelling out: h t t p s colon forward slash forward slash e n dot wikipedia dot org forward slash wiki forward slash capital m marta underscore capital r russell.]
Features
CRITICAL CARE
Colby Chamberlain on the art of Park McArthur
Luciano Perna, April 22 2020 6:46 pm Schlumbergera, 2020, ink-jet print, 17 × 22".
Features
PANDEMIC FLOWERS
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on the art of Luciano Perna
Sirine Fattouh, Fida Bizri, and Sylvie Ballyot’s children’s art workshop, Beirut, August 19, 2020. Photo: Sirine Fattouh.
Features
ON THE GROUND: BEIRUT
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Beirut after the blast
Sue Coe, Stamped Out, 2020, linocut with hand-coloring on paper, 10 3/8 × 8 1/2".
Features
PROJECT: SUE COE
Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Sue Coe’s ominous rallying cries
Ken Okiishi, Vital Behaviors, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 64 minutes. Brian Altemus.
Features
CLOSE-UP: THIRST TRAP
Laura McLean-Ferris on Ken Okiishi’s Vital Behaviors, 2019
Garrett Bradley, America, 2019, three-channel 35 mm transferred to 4K video projection, black-and-white, sound, 23 minutes 55 seconds. Production still.
Features
CLOSE-UP: LOST AND FOUND
Amy Taubin on Garrett Bradley’s Time, 2020, and America, 2019
Adam Pendleton, US/U.S., 2020, spray paint on paper.
Adam Pendleton, US/U.S., 2020, spray paint on paper.
October/November 2020
VOL. 59, NO. 2
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