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September 2009 Table of Contents

Published: September 1, 2009
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Modern Painters: Art + Science


Modern Painters: Performance


Culture + Travel: When in...


Modern Painters: Introducing


Modern Painters: Modern Painters


Modern Painters: The New Roman(ian) Order


Modern Painters: Returning to the Source


Modern Painters: Reviews

FRONT MATTER
6 Editor’s Letter
Marina Cashdan reinforces Modern Painters' mission.
Read the Letter
11 Field Guide: News, Previews, Interviews
Modernologies
Gustav Metzger
Yui Kugimiya
11th International Istanbul Biennial
The Otolith Group
Lee Ufan
Yard
Ron Arad
24 Diary
The Known Unknowns
Meaning and nonmeaning in Robert Motherwell and Keith Coventry, with confusion from Michelangelo.
By Matthew Collings
30 Art and Science
Light Fantastic
Spencer Finch's multidimensional artworks give material form to ephemeral sensory phenomena.
By Meghan Dailey
36 Performance
Assimilating Semele
Acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Huan gives an ancient Greek tale an Eastern spin in his directorial debut.
By Andrew Yang
54 When in...
ShContemporary is just one of the art attractions in this town, also known for its culinary masterpieces.
44 Introducing
Cheap Thrills
Davis Rhodes's art culls imagery from commercial culture to lure and confront viewers with a spectacle heightened by tawdry effect.
By Piper Marshall
49 Feature
Inside Man
As an artist, John Waters sabotages the worlds he knows best.
By Lawrence Levi
54 Feature
The New Romanian Order
While no one was looking, Romania's thirtysomething artists seized control of their country's feeble gallery scene. Now, they're infiltrating the art world en masse.
By Jane Neal
60 Feature
Returning To The Source
Design impresario Patrizia Moroso seeks to change how the world sees Africa through a new collection of Senegalese-made furnishings.
By Marisa Bartolucci
BACK MATTER
74 Reviews
David Hockney
Richard Artschwager
Wilhelm Sasnal
Paul Mccarthy
Tris Vonna Michell
Group Show
Douglas Coupland
Jim Hodges
72 Books
American Power Mitch Epstein
In his ravishing new book, "American Power," art photographer Mitch Epstein enthralls and horrifies with his 63 images of our widely polluted land.
By Valerie Gladstone
78 Meeting of Minds
Slava Mogutin Puts Five Questions To Rita Ackermann

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