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IN THE STUDIO:
KATHE BURKHART
with Jane Ursula Harris
With a survey of her ongoing “Liz Taylor” painting series
about to open in Switzerland, Brooklyn-based Kathe
Burkhart discusses her longstanding identiication with
the controversial ilm star, praising her as an icon of
dominant female sexuality.90
NOMADIC GAMES
by Raphael Rubinstein
Argentine émigré Miguel Angel Ríos references
high art, Hollywood westerns, street games,
animal life and the trans-American drug trade
in videos that explore various sociopolitical forces
concealed within the everyday.100
PUTTING MAPPLETHORPE
IN HIS PLACE
by Robert Reid-Pharr
Twenty-six years ago, Robert Mapplethorpe’s
BDSM photographs were successfully defended
in court as elegantly rigorous artworks that
transcend their maverick origins. But did that
normalizing rationale sacriice more personal and
artistic liberty than it saved?110
PORTFOLIO
by Erika Vogt and Shannon Ebner
Stage-scrim images from a Performa 15 event in
New York associate the United States with a giant knife.120
ATOMIC MODERNISM
by Ryan Holmberg
Sensing a link between scientiic progress and mod-
ernist art, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, India’s chief nuclear
advocate, built an impressive postwar collection at the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.
Cover: Eric Fischl, Untitled Art Fair
Collage, 2015, digital collage.
Courtesy Skarstedt Gallery, New York.
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