July/August 2008 Field Guide

Collier Schorr on Brooke Shields and the “Fall of America”

Neohoodoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith

Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters

After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy

The end of the world as Massimiliano knows it

Sydney Biennale

The House of Victor & Rolf

Valérie Mréjen

Isa Rosenberg

Every artist’s worst nightmare comes to HBO

Dominique Gonzales-Foerster

Lygia Clark

Above the Fold

246 and Counting

Female Trouble

Manifesta 7

Not Quite How I Remember It

Kiki Smith Yoko Ono Ono, Plensa, Coyne, and Wodiczko Celebrate Award Wins Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78 Nouveau Is the New New Uncommon Courtesy Seattle Art Museum Fires Guard for Altering Ono Work Temporary Exhibition Spaces Proliferate in London

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The 2008 SITE Santa Fe International Biennial manages to fit several contemporary art trends into its newest incarnation. The 25 participating artists are both international and emerging, the works they create are new commissions that are entirely site-specific, and the works are temporary and cannot be sold; they’ll be promptly dismantled at the close of the show, with the materials recycled back into the larger Santa Fe community. Such stipulations, crafted by curator Lance Fung (of 2004’s "The Snow Show" fame, for which artists such as Kiki Smith and Yoko Ono made works out of ice and, yes, snow), are ripe for the times. The exhibition design is by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (architects of that intriguing slice of a building, the new American Folk Art Museum in New York), and the artists were selected with the help of partner institutions: the Vienna Secession, Tokyo’s Art Tower Mito, and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe. Artists include the American Nadine Robinson, Egypt’s Wael Shawky, Italy’s Studio Azzurro, and New Mexico’s own Rose B. Simpson and Eliza and Nora Naranjo Morse, who employ traditional Pueblo pottery techniques in works in various media.

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"Santa Fe International Biennial" originally appeared in the July/August 2008 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' July/August 2008 Table of Contents.