 06/02/04 Artforum
Summer 2004 Summer in Artforum: Beat the heat with six cool takes on Minimalism. Art historian Yve-Alain Bois offers his views on the Donald Judd retrospective at Tate Modern and major Minimalism exhibitions at the Guggenheim and LA MoCA. (The trend continues with LACMA's "Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s-70s," opening in June.) MoMA curator Ann Temkin discusses the aesthetic and practical challenges of conserving Judd's work; artists Robert Gober, Josiah McElheny, and Andrea Zittel speak to Minimalism's current resonance; and National Gallery of Art curator Jeffrey Weiss surveys the role and impact of artists' writings from 1960 to 1975. "It is hard to imagine that our parents, the smart artists of the historical establishment, were . . . a bunch of ragtag hipster nerds in cutoff shorts." -- Andrea Zittel Also in Summer: "Make Your Own Nan Goldin." For the past two years, Artforum contributing editor David Rimanelli has assigned his NYU undergrads to snap images a la this diaristic photographer, making them "question the ostensible gap between . . . set-up pictures and those that laid claim to the ambivalent territory of the documentary." Artforum presents the results alongside their instigator's critical take. "With a certain tendentiousness I often returned to Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin during the course's unraveling; having initially emphasized their obvious differences, gradually I began to refer to the artists by a single sobriquet, 'Cindy Goldin.'" -- David Rimanelli And: Linking Richard Serra's recent work as installed at Dia:Beacon to Olafur Eliasson's and Anish Kapoor's projects for Tate Modern, art historian James Meyer traces a "genealogy of scale and size in the art of the last half century" against a "scenario of unrelenting global museological competition." "Having demanded and inspired the enlarged spaces that museum directors and trustees find it so necessary to proffer, Richard Serra's sculpture has become the contemporary museum's major draw." -- James Meyer Plus: Artforum unveils a portfolio of previously unseen snapshots from 1961 by Ed Ruscha, a selection of which will be on view in this summer's "Ed Ruscha and Photography" at the Whitney Museum; Jonathan Gilmore discusses William Kentridge's Ritorno d'Ulisse; Abigail Solomon-Godeau takes sides in the image wars; Peter Plagens profiles three new Whitney curators; Jan Tumlir introduces Taft Green; and John Kelsey reviews John Waters at the New Museum. Visit our free online directory of international museums at http://www.artforum.com/museumfinder To subscribe, visit http://www.artforum.com/subscribe |
