TABLE OF CONTENTS

October 2008 Table of Contents

Published: October 1, 2008

Modern Painters: Introducing - Ahmet Öğüt

Modern Painters: Feature - Shepard Fairey

Modern Painters: Feature - Catherine Opie

Modern Painters: Portfolio - Alec Soth

Modern Painters: Feature - All the President's Marketing Men

Modern Painters: Diary - Jake and Dinos Chapman

Modern Painters: Artist's Collection - Martin Parr

Modern Painters: Working Practice - Sol LeWitt

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INTRODUCING: ARTISTS TO WATCH

60 Ahmet Ög˘üt

By Steven Henry Madoff
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64 Katerina Šedá

By Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
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FEATURES

68 Shepard Fairey

Why would Barack Obama invite a graffiti artist with a long rap sheet to launch a guerrilla marketing campaign on his behalf? Joshuah Bearman visits the creator of those iconic “Hope” posters to find out.
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74 Catherine Opie

On the eve of her retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the acclaimed photographer talks to novelist A. M. Homes about what turns her on: politics, football, S&M, and Alaska
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80 Portfolio: Alec Soth

A new series by the photographer displays the weary America that is George W. Bush’s legacy
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86 All the President's Marketing Men

The 2008 race for the Oval Office has been criticized as a battle of the brands, but as George Pendle explains, candidates have been selling themselves since the days of William Henry Harrison
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DEPARTMENTS

26 Field Guide

Los Angeles / Lauri Firstenberg Read the Article
Eugene Carchesio Read the Article
Cinema Remixed & ReloadedRead the Article
Dark Continents Read the Article
Cildo Meireles/London Read the Article
Rivane Neuenschwander Read the Article
Franz West Read the Article
Open Read the Article
Lois and Franziska Weinberger Read the Article
Tadao Ando Read the Article
Le Futurisme á Paris Read the Article
The Tropics Read the Article
Nam June Paik Art Center Read the Article
Museums in the 21st Century Read the Article

34 Diary

More brutality from the Chapman brothers
By Matthew Collings
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40 Artist's Collection

Martin Parr
By Martin Coomer
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42 Report: Baghdad's Muralists

Iraqi artists combat the insurgents with pro-government paintings
By Charles Levinson
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46 Report: Walking in Memphis

Artist Glenn Ligon visits the city known for its two kings, Elvis and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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50 Working Practice

A team of artists re-create 105 of Sol LeWitt’s legendary wall drawings at Mass MoCA
By Claire Barliant
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52Architecture & Design: White House Redux

Some of the more outlandish entries from a recent competition to redesign the White House
By Geoff Manaugh
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