Art in America - March 2016_

DEPARTMENTS MARCH 201 6

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CONTRIBUTORS

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EDITOR’S LETTER

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THE BRIEF
Met Breuer, New York, lauches with a Nasreen Mohamedi
reteospective and an historical survey of uninished artworks;
“Dance! American Art, 1830-1960” at the Detroit Institute
of Arts; techno-fashion at the Boston MFA; Armory Arts Week
in New York; Louisville’s renovated Speed Art Museum; two ilm
festivals in New York—one at MoMA, one in Queens.

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FIRST LOOK

Todd McQuade by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal

Combining sculpture, video, audio and live performance,

L.A. artist Todd McQuade explores human vulnerability, both

physical and psychological.

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CRITICAL EYE

Defending Late Stella by P.C. Smith

In their chaotic exuberance, Frank Stella’s recent paintings

and constructions, the author argues, accurately relect visual

perception and contemporary experience.

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SIGHTLINES

L.A. curator and gallery director Paul Schimmel tells

Ross Simonini what’s on his mind.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ART

Proposals for a Future World by Carol Becker

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s energy-conscious

projects—a bike path, condensed-smog jewelry, an outdoor

air-cleaner, an illuminated dance loor and various large-scale

urban light projections—posit a cleaner, saner, more

eicient tomorrow.

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UP CLOSE

The Bittersweet Dreams of David Cunningham by Kevin Killian

In the midst of San Francisco’s DIY art scene, architect David

Cunningham’s project space (2007-10) fostered unfettered

experimentation and a joyous sense of community.

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MUSE

Blue Turning Gray Over You by Jennie C. Jones

Painter and sound artist Jennie C. Jones—while deeply

concerned with African-American identity, aesthetics and art

history—maintains an intense artistic rapport with the formalist

abstractions of the late Ellsworth Kelly.

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ATLAS LIMA

The Map and the Typography by Desi Gonzalez

An ubiquitous sans serif typeface, a national trademark and a music-

related style of street art suggest that Peruvian populism is at times

genuine and at times coopted for commercial or political purposes.

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BOOKS

Rob Horning on Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter, eds., Mass Efect: Art and

the Internet in the Twenty-First Century;plus related titles in brief.

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BACKSTORY

Peek-a-Boo by Bice Curiger

Curator, foundation director andParkettmagazine editor Bice

Curiger recalls her experience with Swiss artists Fischli/Weiss

in the 1970s and ’80s, the era of their “Sausage Series,” “Rat and

Bear” ilms and infamous anus-view sculptureAnimal, shown at

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, in 1986.

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REVIEWS

New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London,

Munich and Bonn, Winterthur, Milan, Prague, Brisbane

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ARTWORLD

People, Awards, Obituaries