Art Journal articles from June 2002

Art Journal archives from June 2002

In this issue: us and them.
June 22, 2002... The art of conversation... dreams not of the world made whole as much as it emphasizes the need to attend to a world whose making is, at best, a contingent and contradictory enterprise. For this reason 'conversation' eschews the vaunting...

A giant pile of bananas--can you dig it? (Cuenca).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... A giant pile of bananas--as many as forty thousand of them in some locations--sits in the middle of a public space, totally free for the taking. The installation blends the languages of protest installation, and spectacle, and in it, a...

A conversation with Okwui Enwezor.(curator)
June 22, 2002... This interview took place on September 8, 2001, in a public forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It was sponsored by the Department of Museum Education in conjunction with the exhibition The Short Century: Independence and...

Working notes: conversation with Katy Deepwell.(Interview)
June 22, 2002... This conversation between Maureen Connor and Katy Deepwell, editor of n. paradoxa, took place in New York in March 2001. Maureen Connor: Let's start by discussing the history of n. paradoxo--what led up to it, the beginnings, and what...

The long road: Isaac Julien in conversation with B. Ruby Rich.(Interview)
June 22, 2002... This conversation was held as a public forum at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia on October 5, 2001, in conjunction with the presentation of Isaac Julien's video installation The Long Road to Mazatlan. (1) Shot in and...

Give & Take conversations.(artists comment on an exhibition)
June 22, 2002... Give & Take, a collaborative exhibition in two parts organized by the Serpentine Gallery in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, was displayed concurrently at both institutions from January 30 to April 1, 2001....

The wide margins of the century.
June 22, 2002... Geeta Kapur. When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India. New Delhi: Tulika Press, 2000. 439 pp., 356 b/w ills. $60 paper. The title of Geeta Kapur's book, When Was Modernism, refers to an...

Documents of 1960s art.
June 22, 2002... Amy Newman. Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974. New York: Soho Press, 2000. 560 pp., 17 b/w ills. $42. Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell, eds. Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt,...

Bellmer now.(books on artist Hans Bellmer)
June 22, 2002... Sue Taylor. Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 296 pp., 5 color ills., 109 b/w. $42.95. Therese Lichtenstein. Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer. Berkeley: University of California Press,...

Transience: faceting quicksilver.
June 22, 2002... Wu Hung. Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 216 pp., 30 color ills. $40 paper. One-fifth of the world's population lives in China. We can guess that close...

Why pictures now. (Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Louise Lawler. An Arrangement of Pictures. New York: Assouline, 2000. 70 pp (unpag.), 54 color ills., 25 b/w. $65. It's a sticky problem setting out to find a place for Louise Lawler in the art-historical canon. After all, what do we make...

Reading against the grain: the French avant-garde. (Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Molly Nesbit. Their Common Sense. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2000. 372 pp., 151 b/wills. $34-95 paper. Molly Nesbit's Their Common Sense is a carefully plotted fiction of artistic creation, an engaging, diligently researched,...