ARTnews - December 2015 (gnv64)

ARTnews - December 2015
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 26.7 mb

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mastheads 12,14
Editor’s Letter 16
Q&A 18
A Talk with Carroll Dunham Bill Powers
EDITORS’ PICKS 22
DISPATCHES 26
The Living Dead Dushko Petrovich
A Weather-Controlled Synthesizer, Courtesy Robert
Rauschenberg John Chiaverina
Painting, IRL Andrew Russeth
FILM 36
Precarious Immortality:
William S. Burroughs on Film Andrew Marzoni
FEATURES
Wall Talk: What Should Museum Wall Labels Tell Us? Who Writes Them? Do We Even Need Them? Ann Landi 42
From Planes to Brains to Outer Space and Ruscha: Paul Allen’s All-Embracing Aesthetic Fills His Newest Exhibition Space Patricia Failing 50
The Doctor Is In: Art Basel’s Noah Horowitz, Ph.D., Hits the Beach Nate Freeman 58
Growing Pains: Franklin Sirmans and the Future of the Pérez Art Museum Miami M.H. Miller 66
REVIEWS OPENER
Trisha Baga 76
NEW YORK REVIEWS 78
Alberto Burri, Archibald Motley, “For a New World to Come”, Walid Raad, Ulrich Rückriem, “Photographic, Portraits from West Africa” & “Kongo”, Gego, Barnaby Furnas, Robert Overby, Ofri Cnanni, Martine Syms, Maureen Gallace, Martin Roth, “The Museum Imagined”
NATIONAL REVIEWS 89
Christopher Knowles, Nicholas Nixon, “Strange Currencies”, Dan Levenson, Charles Mayton
INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS 92
David Diao, “The World Goes Pop”, Charlotte Salomon, Zhang Dali, Nira Pereg
RETROSPECTIVE 96