 03/31/04 Artforum
This month in Artforum: "There is this desire from some that black artists should tell the truth, be authentic, but there is actually a lack of authenticity that is crucial to my work." So declares artist Ellen Gallagher when discussing her POMP-BANG, 2003, which graces this month's cover of Artforum and is just one of many works on canvas discussed in this issue. Among others are Joe Zucker on the occasion of his three recent New York shows, Dana Schutz's symbolist burlesque, and Mathew Cerletty, the young painter about whose work Christopher Bollen writes, "To view [him] as a painterly Bret Easton Ellis, depicting twentysomethings adrift in their own nihilistic pathos, is to appreciate the glamour but fail to feel the punch." Also in April, from the canvas to the screen: Chantal Akerman sits down with writer Miriam Rosen to discuss her nearly forty years of filmmaking. Coming some twenty years after Artforum's first interview with the cineaste, this conversation is sure to whet expectations for Akerman's upcoming retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. "You know, when most people go to the movies, the ultimate compliment--for them--is to say 'We didn't notice the time pass!' With me, you see the time pass. And feel it pass." -- Chantal Akerman Architecture in the Expanded Field: Over the last decade architecture has experienced a foundational push in terms of its inspiration and influence. Anthony Vidler traces this expanded field to include "ideas of landscape, biological analogies, and new concepts of 'program.'" Plus: Robert Storr considers the living legacy of art critic Irving Sandler, Amy Taubin rocks out with Metallica, Anthony Huberman tunes in to Resonance FM, and Johanna Burton sets the stage for Joan Jonas's "Five Works." Visit Artforum online at http://www.artforum.com/subscribe Visit our free online directory of international museums at http://www.artforum.com/museumfinder |
