 05/03/04 Artforum
Get ready for the season with Artforum's summer preview issue, your guide to fifty contemporary art exhibitions opening worldwide from May through August. Artforum critics give tips on what to see and where, from Ed Ruscha at the Whitney to "Beyond Geometry" at MoCA to Susan Hiller at BALTIC to Group Zero at Siena's Palazzo delle Papesse. Don't miss Jeffrey Kastner on Robert Storr's plans for the SITE Santa Fe Biennial or Scott Rothkopf's interview with Laura Hoptman about her choices for the 54th Carnegie International. Lists of artists to be included in both exhibitions also debut in this issue. Also in May: Four Artforum regulars weigh in on the Whitney Biennial. Read Jack Bankowsky, David Joselit, Pamela M. Lee, and Scott Rothkopf on the solipsistic, the handcrafted, and the psychedelic as seen in American art's best-known survey. "What fascinates me in this Biennial is the thoroughly paradoxical combination of 'punk rebelliousness' and 'meticulous formalism.'" -- David Joselit And: Art historian Christine Mehring tells the story of Interfunktionen -- the seminal German magazine that helped bring about the "transformation of transatlantic art relations"-- from its 1968 founding by Friedrich Heubach in protest against Documenta 4 to its implosion seven years later as new editor Benjamin H.D. Buchloh published Anselm Kiefer's provocative "Occupations" series. "Today Heubach laughs off frequent compliments for his good eye, saying 'I simply followed my curiosity and the advice of artist friends' like Wolf Vostell and Dan Graham. That's why the pages of Interfunktionen are a kind of raw history, suspended in an exciting zone between the messy present and sure-footed predictions of an art-historical canon." -- Christine Mehring Plus: As part of the new "In Conversation" series, Tim Griffin introduces a dialogue between Dan Graham and Michael Smith; Bennett Simpson talks with Matthew Barney about his collaboration with Arto Lindsay for Salvador's Carnival; Peter Halley and Abigail Solomon-Godeau consider MoMA's "Fashioning Fiction"; Svetlana Alpers remembers philosopher Richard Wollheim; and Miranda July counts down her Top Ten. To subscribe, visit http://www.artforum.com/subscribe Visit our free online directory of international museums at http://www.artforum.com/museumfinder |
