Issue 95 November-December 2005
Down to Earth
Google’s recent foray into satellite maps highlights the subjectivity of cartography
The Reformation
Is the recent trend of seminal bands playing their ‘signature’ albums a cynical marketing ploy or a stab in the eye of iPod culture?
All in the Family
Is the new art history a one-party state?
Against the Wall
A new project by e-flux highlights an extraordinary archive of photographs amassed by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros
Good Looking
The best graphic design must be more than decorative – it has to make sense of its subject
Take the Money and Run
Stuart Morgan once wrote ‘artists are not in competition with each other but with themselves and the past.’ That said, can art prizes be useful? And if so, how?
The Player
Miranda July is a video and performance artist turned commercially successful filmmaker. What’s the difference?
Richard Hughes
The decay of modernity, melancholy objects and shared cultural moments
Dave Hullfish Bailey
Las Vegas and Berlin; bird-watching and urban development; mobbing and elbow room
Time & Place
While the gritty glamour of Marepe’s work valorizes the ingenuity of the inhabitants of north-eastern Brazil, its meaning is further complicated when it travels
Bringin’ it All Back Home
An interview with Martha Rosler about politics, feminism, the art world, media, religion and integrity
Mircea Cantor
Artist meets con artist; travel and tourism; matches lit at both ends
Make and Do
Born in Munich in 1965, Konstantin Grcic trained as a cabinet-maker and then studied design at Royal College of Art in London. After graduating he worked in Jasper Morrison’s studio before opening his own practice, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID), in Munich in 1991. He has designed products for companies including Authentics, ClassiCon, Flos, Iittala, Magis, Muji and Plank. KGID, a monograph on his work, is published by Phaidon
Mindy Shapero
Truth to materials; the mundane and the amazing
Istanbul
Including the work of 53 artists and artist-groups and held in spaces as varied as a vacant office building, a former tobacco warehouse and a run-down apartment block, the low-key and locally engaged 9th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun, was simply titled ‘Istanbul’
An Actor Prepares
Catherine Sullivan’s work skips between historical periods and locations, connecting Baroque ideas of ‘all the world as a stage’ with an individual’s subjectivity
The Observer
Sharon Lockhart makes rigorously formal films that complicate the boundaries between fact and fiction
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore is Director of the Photography Programme at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Stephen Shore: American Surfaces, in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name currently on view at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, is published by Phaidon Press. He lives in New York.
Henning Bohl
Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
By Manfred Hermes
Lyon Biennial
Various venues, Lyon, France
By Tom Morton
Philosophical Toys
Apex Art, New York, USA
By Steven Stern
Seven
Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK
By Andrew Hunt
3rd Gothenburg Biennial
Various venues, Gothenberg, Sweden
By Power Ekroth
Jaki Irvine
Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
By Sally O'Reilly
Koto Ezawa
Murray Guy, New York, USA
By Megan Ratner
Interstate
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA
By Sally O’Reilly
Pia Ronicke
Andersen_s, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
By Staffan Boije af Gennäs
On Demand
The Centre of Attention, London, UK
By Kim Dhillon
The Alien
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
By Maria Fusco
Richard Venlet
Galerie Jan Mot and Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, Belgium
By Nav Haq
Arturo Herrera
daadgalerie and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
By Christy Lange
Alessandro Raho
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
By Pablo Lafuente
Dictators’ Homes
Peter York , (Grove Atlantic, London 2005), London, UK
By Michael Bracewell
Lee Friedlander
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Nineteen Seventy Nine
Bloomberg Space, London, UK
By Kim Dhillon
Lisa Sanditz
CRG Gallery, New York, USA
By Kristin M. Jones
Tue Greenfort
Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
By Catrin Lorch
A Certain Tendency in Representation
Thomas Dane, London, UK
By Melissa Gronlund
Rita Ackermann
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
By Katie Sonnenborn
London in Six Easy Steps
ICA, London, UK
By Dan Fox
Dike Blair
Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
By Chris Balaschak
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
RETORT (Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts), (Verso, New York & London, 2005),
By Julian Myers
The Ongoing Moment
Geoff Dyer, (Little, Brown, London, 2005), London, UK
By Brian Dillon
Coniston Water Festival
Grizedale Arts, Coniston, UK
By Sally O'Reilly
Issues
(View All Covers)






















