issue number 23 | summer 2008 artUS issue 23
 
 
 
 
 

LEAD
The Violence of Images, Violence Against the Image
by Jean Baudrillard
Translated with Preface
by Paul Foss

FIRST DEGREE
Interior Ghosts: An Interview with Karin Davie
by Otino Corsano

BOOK PASSAGE
Avital Ronell: The Work of Survival
by Brian Willems

THE THIRD DEGREE
Secret Theses II: The Novel as Armageddon
by Benjamin Bennett

POSTMORTEM
Ear-Witnessing: The Devil and Mr. Gould
by Paul Foss
SIX DEGREES
Nauman, Wittgenstein, Beckett: The 1960s
Studio Films
by Kathryn Hixson

Cover art by Paul Chan

Reviews

Broad Contemporary Art Museum by Edward Rubin (L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA February 16, 2008) “Disorderly Conduct” by Leslie Markle (Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA February 3 · May 25, 2008) Shana Lutker by Paul Foss (Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA May 10 · June 16, 2008) “California Video” by Mike Rogers (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA March 15 · June 8, 2008) Allan Kaprow by Katherine Satorius (MOCA, Los Angeles CA March 23 · June 30, 2008) James Krone by Christopher Russell (Circus Gallery, Los Angeles CA February 23 · March 29, 2008) Sandeep Mukherjee by Mary Anna Pomonis (Sister Gallery, Los Angeles CA May 10 · June 21, 2008) Etcetera by Catherine Chevalier (Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris FRANCE April 12 · May 17, 2008) Conrad Bakker by Daniel A. Siedell (Des Moines Art Center Downtown, IA December 14, 2007 · March 28, 2008) “The Way That We Rhyme” by Robert Summers (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA March 29 · June 29, 2008) “Las Vegas Diaspora” by Leslie Markle (Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA March 9 · June 1, 2008) Robert Pruitt by Eve Wood (Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles CA March 15 · April 19, 2008) Paul Chan by Jody Zellen (New Museum, New York NY April 9 · June 29, 2008) Louise Bourgeois by Jill Conner (Film Forum, New York NY June 25 · July 8, 2008) Los Carpinteros by Cara Jordan (Sean Kelly Gallery, New York NY March 22 · April 26, 2008) Cai Guo-Quiang by Aneta Georgievska-Shine (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY February 22 · May 28, 2008) “Making It Together” by Jill Conner (The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY March 2 · August 4, 2008) McDermott & McGough by Katrina Kuntz (Cheim & Read, New York NY March 21 · April 26, 2008) Thomas Nozkowski by David Carrier (PaceWildenstein, New York NY April 4 · May 3, 2008) Tseng Kwong Chi by Rose Oluronke Ojo (Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York NY April 3 · May 3, 2008) Sam Taylor-Wood by Dan Tranberg (Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH January 25 · May 11, 2008 / Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX August 2 · October 5, 2008) Whitney Biennial 2008 by Harry Jacob Weil (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY March 6 · June 1, 2008) Neke Carson by David Carrier (The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PE March 14 · June 1, 2008) Beverly Semmes by Daniel A. Siedell (Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas TX January 11 · February 23, 2008) 2008 CORE A.I.R. Exhibition by Andrea Liu (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX March 7 · April 18, 2008) Mark Harris by Sue Spaid (The Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati OH January 25 · March 30, 2008) Gretchen Bennett by Elizabeth Pence (Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle WA February 28 · April 12, 2008) 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art by Simon Rees (Various venues, Berlin GERMANY April 5 · June 15, 2008) Dani Karavan by Maria Zimmermann Brendel (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin GERMANY March 14 · June 1, 2008) Jonas Dahlberg by Jacquelyn Davis (Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm SWEDEN April 4 · May 11, 2008) Zwelethu Mthethwa by Jacquelyn Davis (Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm SWEDEN April 3 · May 11, 2008)