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April 2009 Table of Contents

Published: April 1, 2009
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Modern Painters: Diary


Modern Painters: Private Eye


Modern Painters: Architecture & Design


Modern Painters: Working Practice


Modern Painters: Introducing- Jonathan VanDyke


Modern Painters: Feature- Lightning Fields


Modern Painters: Feature- Portfolio


Modern Painters: Feature- Pencil of Nature


Modern Painters: Feature- After the Fact

FRONT MATTER
6 Editor’s Letter
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11 Field Guide: News, Previews, Interviews
Paris: The Jazz Century
Interview: Second Trienal Poli/Graficá de San Juan
New York, Paris and Stockholm: Survey of Surveys
London: Focus on Forsythe
Minneapolis: The Quick and the Dead
Washingon, DC: Guido van der Werve
North Adams, MA: These Days: Elegies for Modern Times
Nuremberg, Germany: Katinka Bock
Ghent, Belgium: Dara Birnbaum
18 Diary
Where are We Going?
And where did we come from?
A bunch of paintings contain lessons for the future.
By Matthew Collings
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22 Private Eye
One-Bed Uffizi
Megumi Sasaki on her new film and its intriguing subjects, the unlikely super-collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel, who recently donated more than 4,000 works to museums across America.
By Christopher Turner
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24 Architecture & Design
Museum Memory
Renzo Piano’s expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago is about to open with 65,000 square feet of new gallery space.
By Claire Barliant
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26 Working Practice
The Invented Worlds of Paolo Ventura
The Italian photographer explains how he creates startlingly evocative tableaux from the humblest of materials.
By Reuel Golden
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28 Artist’s Collection
Bean There
Alison Knowles, Fluxus artist, student of John Cage, friend of Marcel Duchamp, talks about how her collection of beans has inspired poems and happenings.
By Jeremy Sigler
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30 Art and Science
Neuroaesthetics
Scientist Semir Zeki has been awarded a million pounds to discover how beauty excites the brain.
By Tim Adams
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28 Introducing: Jonathan VanDyke
Drip by Drip
Jonathan VanDyke’s performances, photomontages, and installations undermine macho AbEx bluster.
By Joseph R. Wolin
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FEATURES
40 Lightning Fields
Hiroshi Sugimoto thinks that a good photographer always has to be part scientist. He gives us an exclusive preview of his latest experimental work.
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46 Portfolio
Vince Aletti selects five photographers to watch.
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56 Pencil of Nature
Jeremy Sigler talks to James Welling.
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60 After the Fact
As a recent show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris made clear, Sophie Ristelhueber’s work is about much more than the aftermath of violence.
By Claire Barliant
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68 Reviews
Waltham, MA: Hans Hoffmann
New York: R. H. Quaytman
New York: Peter Rostovsky
San Franciso: Josephine Taylor
New York: Alex Bag
Los Angeles : Kirsten Stoltmann
Athens: Bia Davou
Paris: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
London: Renée Green
London: Superflex
London: Anna Barriball
Amsterdam: Holy Inspiration, Religion and Spirituality in Modern Art
74 When in Mexico City
April’s Zona Maco fair is only part of the lively art scene here that appeals to worldly travelers.
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80 Meeting of Minds
Walead Beshty puts four questions to Karl Hanedel
The artists take on asking the right questions, man as prosthesis-god, and alienating the reader in a Burroughsian, “cut-up” interview.
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