Issue 93 September 2005
Reading Circle
The notion that curators are artists is one that has gained currency in recent years. Where did the idea originate?
Street Life
An obscure 19th-century novel exploring the city as a state of mind was a precursor to some of the late 20th-century's most radical writers. It has now been re-issued
Having Been Said:
Writings and Interviews of Lawrence Weiner, 1968-2003
State of the Art
Politics is big on the agenda in exhibitions across Europe, a UK radio station votes Karl Marx the 'world's greatest philosopher', and Norway's Royals eat prison food. So?
Paper Trail
Art invitations may have become a branding tool, but a Brussels gallery has reintroduced experimentation with an ‘attempt to transcend the banality of the folded newsletter’
Bayern Munich v. Germany
Allianz Arena, Munich
Games Without Frontiers
The relationship between cinema and video games is becoming increasingly incestuous
The State of Heads
A new book of photographs of world leaders begs the question: what is the point of political portraiture?
Singapore
Singapore is a notoriously conservative country with few independent art spaces, however, in recent years the government has invested in the establishment of an art museum and a National Arts Council. In 2006 the capital hosted its first international visual arts biennial
Nicole Wermers
Crystals, collages, recycled Modernism and ashtrays
We Can Build You
Space, and who owns it, is central to Christoph Büchel’s work. To this end he has fabricated fictional interiors of apartments, frozen the remnants of a rock concert, hidden a cheque in a gallery, and more recently in collaboration with Gianni Motti, begun negotiations to rent Guantánamo Bay from the Cuban Government
Venice Biennale 2005
The world's oldest biennial opened once again to the public in June. Directed for the first time by two women, María de Corral and Rosa Martínez, this year's exhibition includes 70 participating countries and 30 collatoral events
Jon Mikel Euba
Expectation, choice and consequence; rock stars stripped of all but their gestures
Wade Guyton
New Forms of Modernism; ambivalence and ambiguity; 'an act of processing'
Varda Caivano
Painting as a site of struggle, doubt and pleasure
The Other Side
Trisha Donnelly employs the immaterial – esoterica, occult ritual and paranormal phenomena – to explore the material world of consumer experience
Common People
Held simultaneously in four venues across Europe this summer, the exhibition 'Populism' represented an ambitious and timely cultural intervention in an urgent political debate
The Seeming and The Meaning
For 25 Years Rosemarie Trockel has examined the slippery connection between sexual identity, images and the way they are perceived
Francesco Vezzoli
Francesco Vezzoli’s Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula (2005) is on view at the Italian Pavilion at Venice Biennale until November 2005. His exhibition Trilogia della morte (Trilogy of Death), presented by the Fonadazione Prada at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, will be on view until September 2005.
Will Rogan
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
By Julian Myers
Clegg & Guttmann
Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
By Nicole Scheyerer
Mike Bouchet
maccarone inc., New York, USA
By Emily Speers Mears
Sample: 100 Fashion Designers; 010 Fashion Curators
Bronwyn Cosgrove (ed.) (Phaidon, London, 2005), , London, UK
By Emily King
Having Been Said: Writings and Interviews of Lawrence Weiner, 1968-2003
Fietzek and Stemmerich (eds), Hatje Cantz, Ost fildern, 2005,
By Mark Beasely
Lucia Nogueira
The Drawing Room, London, UK
By Marcus Verhagen
Dionysiac: Art In Flux
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
By Elena Filipovic
Daniel Sinsel
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
By Max Andrews
Barry McGee
Deitch Projects, New York, USA
By Dominic Johnson
Georg Herold
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden Baden, Germany
By Ralf Christofori
From the Archives: Noise Fest (1981) and Speed Trails (1983)
White Columns, New York, USA
By Mark Beasely
John Berger: Here is Where We Meet
Various Venues, London, UK
By Brian Dillon
What Good Are the Arts?
John Carey , (Faber, London, 2005), London, UK
By Brian Dillon
Rachel Harrison
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
By Mick Peter
Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are
Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
By Douglas Heingartner
Cildo Meireles
Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio, Brazil
By Jochen Volz
Do It, volume 1
Hans Ulrich Obrist (ed.) , (e-flux/Revolver, New York/Frankfurt, 2005), New York, USA
By Christy Lange
Invisible Insurrection
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
By Alex Farquharson
Steve Claydon
Hotel, London, UK
By Catherine Wood
John Baldessari
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
By Jörg Heiser
Icestorm
Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
By Pablo Lafuente
Tim Hawkinson
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
By Megan Ratner
The Muster
Governors Island, New York, USA
By James Trainor
Jordan Baseman
Matt's Gallery, London, UK
By Sally O'Reilly
Folk Archive
Barbican, London, UK
By Tom Morton
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