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#20
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essays
Preface
— MAY

A note about Jack Smith
— Michael Krebber

I will not interpret Jack Smith. I will not interpret Jack Smith. I will not interpret Jack …
— Felix Bernstein

I Danced with a Penguin
— Enzo Shalom

Broadway Central Narco Moon: Jack Smith and Illegality
— Branden W. Joseph
Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988
— Gary Indiana in conversation with Bruce Hainley and Sohrab Mohebbi


reviews
Sur Le Livre d’image de Jean-Luc Godard au Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne
— Ferdinand Gouzon  

On the film Shakedown by Leilah Weinraub
— Juliana Huxtable

On Free Wifi by Nina Könnemann
— Megan Francis Sullivan

On Louise Lawler at 80WSE Gallery (NYU), New York 
— Nick Irvin

On Claire Fontaine at Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles
— Anita Chari

Sur Robert Malaval à la galerie Pauline Pavec, Paris
— Valentin Gleyze

On Afuma (Stefan Tcherepnin & Taketo Shimada) at H0L0, Ridgewood
— Keith Connolly

Sur l’ouvrage de Giovanna Zapperi, Carla Lonzi : Un art de la vie, critique d’art et féminisme en Italie 1968-1980
— Ariane Temkine

On Park McArthur at MoMA, New York
— Noah Barker

On the film Vital Behaviors by Ken Okiishi
— Felix Bernstein


column
Last summer (Hong Kong SAR)
— Sony Devabhaktuni

Garde Montée
— Jeanne Graff

A Cowboy Narrative
— Bernadette Van-Huy


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essays
Preface
— May

Trisha Erin
— Cecilia Pavón

Freestyle Rap
— Cecilia Pavón

A Perfect Day
— Cecilia Pavón

Morality Crisis: On the Legitimate Acquisition of Tons of Sex
— Elise Duryee-Browner

The Onset of Automation
— Georgie Nettell

Out of the Box, on The Square (dir. Ruben Östlund)
— Jason Simon

On “Seismography of Struggles, Toward a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals” at INHA, Paris
— Morad Montazami

Doors of Deflection, on Sam Pulitzer at Francesca Pia, Zürich
— Daniel Horn

Paradiso, on Richard Maxwell at Greene Naftali, New York
— Nick Irvin
Munch’s Flu, on Edvard Munch at MET Breuer, New York
— Clément Rodzielski
Why Do Jaguar, on Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig
— Anke Dyes
On “Gianni Versace Retrospective” at Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin
— Karl Holmqvist


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Preface
— MAY

“A Live Center of Information”: The Paris Connection, or, Of What Was Beaubourg the End?
— Kim West

1977
— Yann Chateigné

London, London
— Richard Parry

An Image that Can Be Inhabited
— Lotte Arndt

The Hiking Trail Around the Airport
— Peter Fischli


Reviews
Clifton Clifton
— Jeanne Graff

On Juliana Huxtable, A Split During Laughter at the Rally, at Reena Spaulings, New York
— Christian Haye

Supreme, On Till Megerle at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
— Anke Dyes

On Tobias Kaspar at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
— Oleg Frolov

On Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power, at Kiosque, Ghent
— Giovanna Zapperi

Company Man, On Thinking of readymades belong to everyone® at Greene Naftali, New York
— Liam Considine

On Charges (The Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek
— Camilla Wills



#17
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Preface
— May

American Goodness
— Elise Duryee-Browner

If our Lives are Black. On Angela Davis and Gina Dent’s conference at La Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris
— Claire Fontaine

Interview with Ilaria Bussoni. On the symposium “Sensible Commons” at GNAM, Rome
— May

Weather Report
— none

αντιanti
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Reviews
Villa Noailles (2)
— Jeanne Graff

Dynamis, 2016–2017 Athens and Kassel simultaneously and in continuum
— Georgia Sagri

On Soulèvements by Georges Didi-Huberman at Jeu de Paume, Paris
— Giovanna Zapperi

On the film Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
— Tobias Madison

On Amelie von Wulffen at Barbara Weiss, Berlin
— Jay Chung

On Yuki Kimura at CCA Wattis, San Francisco
— J. Gordon Faylor

(ENG) Behind Enemy Lines: Black Power & Taboo. On The Color Line: African-American Artists and Segregation at Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
— Kari Rittenbach

On Morag Keil at Eden Eden, Berlin
— Nicholas Tammens

On Greg Parma Smith at MAMCO, Geneva
— Enzo Shalom

Francis Picabia seen from Switzerland and America. On Francis Picabia’s retrospectives at Kunsthaus Zurich and at MoMA, New York
— Carole Boulbès



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Weed and the practice of freedom
— Claire Fontaine

The paradox of self-abolition: a mapping exercice
— Marina Vishmidt
Presence and absence
— Melissa Gordon
Narrative without end
— Anna De Filippi
An exercice in the practice of affidamento
— Alex Martinis Roe
Marinella Pirelli films
— Lucia Aspesi
Human strike between foreignness and responsibility
— Claire Fontaine
Introduction to double-bind
— Rhea Anastas

Reviews
Citadelle. On Marie Angeletti, “Citadelle” at Édouard Montassut, Paris
— Jacob Stewart-Halevy
On Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Lotte Arndt, Catalina Lozano (eds), Crawling Doubles. Colonial Collecting and Affect
— Emmanuelle Chérel
A world exactly like this one. On Credits by Hannah Black
— Jack Gross
Get some rest Pam, or Jason Bourne comes to age. On Paul Greengrass’ film, Jason Bourne
— Maija Timonen
Aggregation or mere dislocation. On the 9th Berlin Biennale and “Painting 2.0: expression in the information age,” mumok, Vienna
— Kari Rittenbach
Visual Insert
— LGG$B
Villa Noailles (1)
— jeanne Graff



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Preface
— May

Crisis Fashion
— Daniel Horn

DIS and That
— Mikael Brkic

Vetements – Fall / Winter 2016. Panel Discussion
— Lou Stoppard & Sahil Babbar, Aude Fellay, Aya Noel, Priyesh Patel, Vilde Sorum
The Modern Naked King
— Taque Hirakawa
Interview with Women’s History Museum
— Ada O’Higgins

Maison Artists Space. Interview with Stefan Kalmár
— May
Roundtable
— BLESS & Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Heinz Peter Knes
THE STREET
— Tobias Kaspar & Tobi Maier
Jesus as Readymade. Interview with Kaspar Müller
— Peter Fischli

Reviews
La mode retrouvée. On the Wardrobe of the Countess Greffulhe at Palais Galliera, Paris
— Hannah Adkins
Post-Hummannerism. On “Inhuman” at Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
— Jakob Schillinger
Magma
— Eric Bell

Finely Crafted Stool. On Mathieu Malouf at Jenny’s, Los Angeles
— George Egerton-Waburton
Wolfpack. On the film “The Wolfpack” by Crystal Moselle
— Julia Moritz

Non classé
Preface
— May



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Preface
— May

Some Partial Views: Sigmar Polke’s Reception in the United States and Germany in the 1980s
— Magnus Schaefer
Interview with Magnus Schaefer
— Catherine Chevalier
Interview with Guy Tosatto
— May

On Some Models of Artist/Gallery Relations
— Table ronde avec Marie Angeletti, Camille Blatrix, Hélène Fauquet, Renaud Jerez, Mélanie Matranga, modérée par Catherine Chevalier & Edouard Montassut
Visual Insert
— Ellie de Verdier

Reviews
The Desaturation of Graffiti. On Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho at Mathew, Georgie Nettell at Lars Friedrich, Berlin and Dave Miko, Ned Vena and Antek Walczak at Algus Greenspon, New York
— Tanja Widmann
Paris de Noche. On “Paris Noche” at Night Gallery, Los Angeles
— Jay Chung

Dengled Up in Blue. On Verena Dengler at Meyer Kainer in Vienna
— Lili Reynaud Dewar
Eternal Return. On “Call and Response” at Gavin Brown and “Forever Now” at the MoMA, New York
— Kari Rittenbach
Between the Archer and the Target. On Daniel Pommereulle at the musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
— Hélène Fauquet
Rain Over Water. On Hans Christian Lotz at David Lewis, New York
— Sam Pulitzer



#13
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Preface
— May

καταστροφή: the End and the Beginning
— Déborah Danowski

Man in the Anthropocene (as portrayed by the film Gravity)
— Stephanie Wakefield

Politics in the Anthropocene: A Conversation between Stephanie Wakefield and Antek Walczak
— May
DIY or DIE: A Pastoral Selfie
— Jenna Bliss, Elise Duryee-Browner, Damon Sfetsios
Two Tales
— Alejandra Riera
Insert: Dustin
— Valentin Bouré & Mélanie Matranga

Reviews
Mirror, Mirror On Da Wall… On the exhibition of Stewart Uoo, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
— Daniel Horn
Grafted Garden. On the exhibition “Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
— John Beeson

Kiss me, kiss me, cover my body in Love
— Karl Holmqvist
True Romance. On Camille Blatrix’s exhibition “A Ticket for the Sequel” at the galerie Balice Hertling, Paris
— Édouard Montassut
The Apersonal Affect. On Anne Imhof’s exhibition at the galerie Deborah Schamoni, Münich
— Kerstin Stakemeier

On Dorothy Iannone’s exhibition “This Sweetness Outside of Time” at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zürich
— Karl Holmqvist
“Sorts of Notes.” On the book Dubuffet typographe by Pierre Leguillon
— Mica Gherghescu
On the exhibition “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” at the MET, New York
— Jason Simon


#12
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Preface
— May

The Spoiled Children of Art
— Georges Rey
Afterword
— Florence Bonnefous

Black Box
— Éric Troncy
“Project Unité” in Firminy.
Interview with Yves Aupetitallot

— May
Editorial (catalog of “L’Hiver de l’amour”)
— Elein Fleiss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Olivier Zahm

Traffic: Space-times of the Exchange
— Nicolas Bourriaud

The Stranger and the Margin. Interview with Roy Genty
— May


Reviews
On Loretta Fahrenholz, Ditch Plains at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
— Annie Godfrey Larmon

On “Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade 1500-1800” at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and “Decorum: Carpets and Tapestries by Artists” at Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris
— Nick Mauss
Trois petits chats. On “Pierre Huyghe” at Centre Pompidou, Paris
— Neil Beloufa

Mobile Brand Development. On Carissa Rodriguez, “La Collectionneuse” at Front Desk Apparatus, New York
— Jacob King
To the Planetarium. On “The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside”, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
— Vincent Normand
Painting Inside Yourself. On Antek Walczak, “New Transbohemian States” at Real Fine Arts, New York
— Damon Sfetsios, Elise Duryee-Browner



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Preface
— May

An Introduction to a Juridical Legal Analysis of Contemporary Art
— Judith Ickowicz
The Reappearances of Cady Noland and the Theatre of Law
— Judith Ickowicz, Elvan Zabunyan, David Perreau
A Revolution “First-Hand”: Seth Siegelaub’s Journey to Portugal in May 1975
— Sara Martinetti

Zero Dark Thirty: The Aesthetics of Narcissism
— Maija Timonen
Friend of the Devil. On Michael Krebber, “The ridiculized snails” at CAPC, Bordeaux
— Mark von Schlegell

Reviews
On Martin Kippenberger, “Sehr Gut | Very Good” at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
— Jay Chung
Life, like networking, is a group show. On Tanja Widmann, “eine von euch” at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Saprophyt, Vienne, tranzitdisplay, Prague
— Tonio Kröner
Another image, a different song. On Mathias Poledna at Secession, Vienna
— Benjamin Hirte

Get Rid of Capitalism. On Bernadette Corporation, “2000 Wasted Years” at ICA, London
— Josefine Wikström
Participation, Penetration, and Phoniness. On Tobias Kaspar, “Life and Lies” at Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris
— Andrea Legiehn
On “The Issues of Our Time” at Castillo/Corrales, Paris
— Seyoung Yoon
“Living in Your Head”. On “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013” at Prada Foundation, Venice
— Elvan Zabunyan


#10
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Preface
— May

How to Do the History of French Theory in the Visual Arts: A New York Story
— John Rajchman

From Time to Space: When Critical Theory Turns Global
— François Cusset

Meeting Jean-François Chevrier
— Paul Sztulman
54, boulevard Raspail
— Stefan Germer


Reviews
Biarritz by Georges Ancely – Photographs 1880–1895
— Nicolas Ceccaldi

“Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language”
— Tom McDonough
“Because Thought is Dark!”
— Clara Schulmann
Peripheral Passages.
On John Knight’s Curb Appeal

— André Rottmann
Matisse Rebooted
— Clément Auriel



#9
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Preface
— May

Arab Uprisings and Impersonal Images
— Dork Zabunyan

The Language of Negation: From Montage to Détournement in the Situationist International
— Tom McDonough
“Malaise.” The Displacements of a Word
— Mica Gherghescu
Our Weirdness is Free
— Gabriella Coleman
Shit Happens: The Incredible Chronicle of OWS Yet Hardly Have Ye Begun to Fight
— Antek Walczak
This Way to the Cupcake Party
— Caroline Busta & Amy Yao

Reviews
On Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith’s, “Cash from Chaos/Unicorns & Rainbows”
— Robert McKenzie

On “Pacific Standard Time, Art in Los Angeles, 1950 – 1980”
— Karl Holmqvist
On Judith Hopf’s, “end rhymes and openings”
— Melanie Ohnemus
On Isa Genzken’s, “Die kleine Bushaltestelle”
— Karl Holmqvist

On David Douard’s, “Innerspace: Jean Comandon/David Douard”
— Benjamin Thorel

On Uncreative Writing by Kenneth Goldsmith
— Marwan Makki



#8
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Preface
— May

The Threat of the Provincial
— Ken Okiishi
Detroit
— Jay Chung
Radical Localism. Report From Mexicali
— Chris Kraus
There is no Provincialism Solution
— Rex Butler – A. D. S. Donaldson
Questions about 4 Taxis
— Thomas Lawson

Visual Insert
— Henry Wessel

Reviews
Neon Vernacular. On “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980”
— Alex Kitnick

Unearthing the Campesino. On “MEX/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985”
— Kappy Mintie
Archives With and Without Forms. On “Anarchisme without adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Archangelo (1975-1979)” and “The Experimental Impulse”
— Catherine Chevalier
The Land Farms the Farmer and the Mind. On Peter Nadin’s “First Mark”
— Mathieu Malouf

Short Sighted Illusions. On Adriana Lara’s “Modern (lasser) Painting”
— Miguel Calderón


#7
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Preface
— May

“I think it’s time to break off…”
— Olivier Zahm

Preface (Documents sur l’art, no 2, 1993)
— Hervé Legros
Interview with Olivier Zahm
— May
Wishing to be in Paris, glad to be in Berlin or different ways to escape the 1990s
— Stephan Geene
Visual insert
— Axel Huber

Reviews
Looking the part – The Empty Plan by Anja Kirschner and David Panos
— Maija Timonen

Gerard Byrne, “In San Francisco they say, “Flash on it””
— Clara Schulmann
Ken Okiishi, (Goodbye to) Manhattan
— Karl Holmqvist

Richard Prince, “American Prayer”
— François Aubart
Emily Sundblad, “Que Barbaro”
— Rob McKenzie
Henrik Olesen, The Maculate Conception
— Elisabeth Lebovici
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lung Neaws Visits His Neighbours
— Karl Holmqvist
Kœnraad Dedobbeleer, The Duplication of Dedobbeleer
— Vincent Romagny
Christopher d’Archangelo, Contrary to Intuition, Let’s Begin with an Image
— Scott Portnoy



#6
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Preface
— May

Paul Thek, A Fish Out of Water
— Paul Sztulman
“I don’t want to give myself to trash…”
— Marietta Franke
Povera Today
— Antek Walczak

You are Invited to be the Last Tiny Creature
— Chris Kraus
Jana Euler, “Form Follows Information Exchange”
— Nicolas Ceccaldi

new york report
— David Lieske



#5
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Preface
— May

Learning to Breathe Protest
— none
The Self, the Group and the Pimp : Two Sides of an Institution
— Salong

The Possibility of a World
— Alexandre Costanzo
From the A to the K
— Karl Holmqvist
“ Look at it for a moment. Then turn the page. ”
— Camille Pageard
“Please cremate my body. Loathing.”
— Robert McKenzie
(FR) Le Complot de l’ornement
— Gallien Déjean

Sphinx
— Kim West

Moyra Davey, “Speaker Receiver”
— Elisabeth Lebovici


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Preface
— May
Entrée en matière
— Fulvia Carnevale

Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social Symbolic Practice (Chapter One)
— The Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective
Nudity
— Antonella Nappi
Autonomy and the Need for Love, Carla Lonzi, Vai Pure
— Lea Melandri

The Ongoing Practice
— Lea Melandri
Let’s Spit on Hegel
— Carla Lonzi
Sturtevant, “The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking”
— David Lewis
Why working together with an inner Voice
— Josef Strau
Improvisation, Power, Cultural History-bending
— Tony Conrad
In Fashion. On Josephine Pryde
— Alex Kitnick
(FR) Conversation avec Mathieu K. Abonnenc
— Thomas Boutoux, François Piron et Benjamin Thorel
D5 and the Gesture of Withdrawal
— Jay Chung
“Nothing rings a bell?”, Brice Dellsperger, Body Double 22
— Clara Schulmann
The spherical space of James Benning
— Leonor Antunes


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Preface
— May
Grève humaine (interrompue)
— Fulvia Carnevale – John Kelsey
“Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture”
— Caroline Busta
Fellini – La Grande Parade/The Great Parade
— Dork Zabunyan
What Is a Bad Exhibition ?
— Paul Sztulman
The Complete Poem
— Chris Kraus
Lessons from Éric Rohmer
— Julien Mahon
CityCat, deflected in response to a system built up from under-examined details. 2 December, 2006 and 9 May, 2009, Brisbane River
— Dave Hullfish Bailey
Shaping, Structuring, and Editing the Past
— Interview with Richard Hertz by Catherine Chevalier


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Preface
— May
Riding out of the Sunset, or: How to Cover the Sunrise with a Thumb in Guantánamo Bay
— Magali Arriola
“Event/Non Event” Merlin Carpenter at Gallery Dépendance
— Catherine Chevalier
Heterotopias: Pragmatics
— Dork Zabunyan
(FR) Installation et intervention
— Juliane Rebentisch
“Do you work hard? Do you try hard? You don’t.Chicago, now!”
— Anthony Elms
(FR) « Effleurer des zones dangereuses rend réel l’intevalle entre évasion et attraction.»
« Les objets dangereux sont des lieux séduisants à vivre. »

— Gallien Dejean
Teen Image
— Seth Price

(FR) Retour en terrain inconnu
— Thomas Boutoux, Catherine Chevalier, Benjamin Thorel et Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez
“TARZAN, or Rousseau among the Waziri” Quai Branly
— Lili Reynaud Dewar
Une Semaine de Bonté, or Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
— David Lewis
Without “hers”. Or, some remarks on the exhibition of women artists at the Centre Pompidou
— Elvan Zabunyan
“Paper Trail: Do You Love Me?” at Kunstverein Munich
— Jay Chung
Danh Vo at Kunsthalle Basel
— Karl Holmqvist


#1
MAY #1
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Preface
— May
for him
— Jay Chung
The Emancipated Reader
— Fulvia Carnevale
Critique X
— Catherine Chevalier
Haacke, Broodthaers, Beuys
— Stefan Germer
René Magrittes’s Période Vache at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt
— Michael Krebber
The impossible on display according to JLG – Stories of exhibitions at the Pompidou Center
— Anne Marquez
Constructing You Persona in a Private Media Space
— Antek Walczak, Eva Svennung
On the edge of things—Clément Rodzielski: pictures, panels and mirrors
— Benjamin Thorel
Josef Strau at Malmö Konsthall
— Karl Holmqvist
As of Pierre Leguillon presents Diane Arbus: a printed retrospective (1960-1971)
— Vincent Romagny
Let’s hold back our tears
— Jean-Pierre Rehm


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Fri-Art
Empty Gallery
Forde
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Truth and Consequences
Francesca Pia
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Afterall
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