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READY FOR SUMMER? Well get ready, with Artforums Summer Preview: the indispensable guide to contemporary art exhibitions opening worldwide from May through August. Artforum critics give forty tips on what to see and where, from Pop giant James Rosenquists retrospective at the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to 2002 Biennial curator Lawrence Rinders next big thing, The American Effect, at the Whitney Museum in New York; from John Currins paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, to Philip-Lorca diCorcias photos at Londons Whitechapelnot to mention Phantom der Lust: Visions of Masochism in Art at the Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Austria. Plus, dont miss Steven Henry Madoffs forecast on the upcoming 50th Venice Biennale, with comments from its director, Francesco Bonami.
Also in this issue: on the occasion of Philip Guston, a retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, an examination by art historian David Anfam of the career of a painter whose untimely return to storytelling pointed the way back to the future; Chrissie Iless observances on an untimely departurethe death of Jack Goldstein, a key 80s figure whose art was just getting its due; a portfolio of six never-before-seen images by photographer Stephen Shore; Rhonda Liebermans take on the holy peep show that is the Madonna/Steven Klein/LOT/EK collaboration X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS; and finally, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith and Artforum senior editor Tim Griffin each weigh in on Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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