issue number 22 | spring 2008 artUS issue 22
 
 
 
 
 

LEAD
Child's Play: Britney ShakeSpeares
by Viola Kolarov

FIRST DEGREE
"Unmonumental" Times Two: The New New Museum
by Aneta Georgievska-Shine

BOOK PASSAGE
Secret Theses on Literature and Politics
by Benjamin Bennett

THE THIRD DEGREE
Institutional Anxieties: MASS MoCA v. Christoph Büchel
by Ruba Katrib

POSTMORTEM
The Cut in Collage: Pollock, Fontana, MattaClark, Ono
by Matthew Ryan Smith
SIX DEGREES
On the Back Porch: An Interview with Forrest Williams
by Paul Foss

Cover art by Zhang Xianyong

Reviews

"Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists"/ "China Avant Gard II" by Peter Frank (Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables FL November 2, 2007 · February 29, 2008 / Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA January 19 · February 16 2008) Anthony Hernandez by Paul Foss (Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica CA January 19 · February 23, 2008) John P. Hogan by Anna Mayer (David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles CA August 25, 2007) Art Basel Miami Beach by Nathan Danilowicz (Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami FL December 6 · 9, 2007) Francis Alÿs by Leslie Markle (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA September 29, 2007 · February 10, 2008) Rachel Mason by Eve Wood (Circus Gallery, Los Angeles CA January 12 · February 16, 2008) Annika von Hausswolff by Jacquelyn Davis (Magasin 3, Stockholm SWEDEN February 9 · June 8, 2008) “Warhol: Dead at 21” by Robert Summers (World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles CA January 11 · February 22, 2008) Peter Sarkisian by Ellen Berkovitch (James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe NM December 21 · March 12, 2008) John Heartfield by Gean Moreno (The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach FL September 21, 2007 · February 10, 2008) “southXeast” by Gean Moreno (Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton FL January 26 · April 9, 2008) Jorge Pardo by Sue Spaid (Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL December 4, 2007 · March 2, 2008) “Beyond/In Western New York” by Nadja Sayej (Albright-Knox Art Gallery et al., Buffalo NY September 14 · October 20, 2007) Daniella Dooling by Helena Winston (Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York NY January 11 · February 9, 2008) Eve Wood by Mary Anna Pomonis (Western Project, Los Angeles CA February 9 · March 8, 2007) Rackstraw Downes by David Carrier (Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York NY January 24 · March 1, 2008) Amir Zaki by Jody Zellen (Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York NY October 19 · November 21, 2007) Martin Puryear by Harry J. Weil (Museum of Modern Art, New York NY November 4, 2007 · January 14, 2008) “Freeze Frame” by Jill Conner (Thrust Projects, New York NY January 11 · February 17, 2008) “Larger Than Life” by Jacquelyn Davis (Stellan Holm Gallery, New York NY December 15, 2007 · February 9, 2008) Richard Prince by Katrina Kuntz (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY September 28, 2007 · January 9, 2008) “One Year Project #2” by Sue Spaid (the land foundation, Chiangmai THAILAND October 1, 2007 · September 30, 2008) “Successive Approximation” by David Carrier (Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York NY January 10 · February 16, 2008) “Painting Then For Now” by David Carrier (David Krut Projects, New York NY November 8, 2007 · January 12, 2008) Bertien van Manen by Jacquelyn Davis (Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York NY January 4 · February 16, 2008) James Drake by Frances Colpitt (Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas TX October 19 · November 30, 2007) Jeff Wall by Simon Rees (White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London UK November 27, 2007 · January 19, 2008) Michael Smith by Kathryn Hixson (Blanton Museum of Art, UT Austin, TX September 11 · December 30, 2007) Kris Knight by Nadja Sayej (Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto CANADA December 1 · 22, 2007