issue 0 | november - december 2003 artUS issue 0
 
 
 
COVER
In Praise of Anachronism:
On Public Art & Its Critics
By Nancy Princenthal 		FIRST DEGREE
The Place of the Aesthetic
in Postmodernism
By Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
POSTMORTEM
Artforum, Roland
Barthes & Me
By Gary Indiana
THE THIRD DEGREE
Soft Wishing Y
(for 9/11)
By Gregory L. Ulmer
BOOK PASSAGE
The Star
Mangled Ninth
By Paul Foss 		SIX DEGREES
Decade
Trouble
By Barbara Kruger

Masthead design and cover concept by Barbara Kruger
Reviews
Chris Burden by Bill Wheelock (Los Angles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA / Gagosian, Beverly Hills CA) Lee Bul by Kathleen Vanesian (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ) Charlotta Westergren by Jennifer Vanderpool (Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles CA) "L.A. Post-Cool" by Lance Carlson (Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles CA) Hans Broek, Taft Green, Richard Hawkins by Tamara Sussman (Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles CA) Christian Marclay by Malik Gaines (UCLA Hammer Museum, CA) Nader Ahriman by Susan Buis (The Project, Los Angeles, CA) "One Ground: 4 Palestinian & 4 Israeli Filmmakers" by Jeanne S. M. Willette (California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA) Yunhee Min by Malik Gaines (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA) Cildo Miereles by Gean Moreno (Miami Art Museum, FL) Paul Pfeiffer by Tommy Freeman (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL) Yoshihiro Suda by Michelle Grabner (The Art Institute of Chicago, IL) David Robbins by Michelle Grabner (Des Moines Art Center, IA) Chris Jahncke by Isabelle Loring Wallace (Turncoats, New Orleans LA) "Open Forum: Encampment" & "Focus Group" by Jakki Spicer (The Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN) Timothy Fort, Gerald Smith by Andrew Knighton (Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program Gallery, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN) Dia:Beacon by Sue Spaid (Beacon, NY) "Focus-Pocus: Fact & Fiction in Contemporary Photography" by Odili Donald Odita (The Beaker Gallery, Tampa FL) Lyle Ashton Harris by Laurence A. Rickels (CRG Gallery, New York NY) "Now Playing" by Domenick Ammirati (D'Amelio Terras, New York NY) "-[not(painting)]: Extending the Field" by Mark Zimmermann (Ise Cultural Foundation, New York NY) "The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003" by Domenick Ammirati (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY) Polly Apfelbaum by Terry R. Myers (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA) Print Liberation by Sue Spaid (Publico, Cincinnati OH) Jeff Shore & Jon Fisher by Chris Ballou (Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston TX) Aaron Parazette by Frances Colpitt (Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio TX) Daniela Rossell by Kathleen Whitney (ArtPace, San Antonio TX) James Rosenquist by Frances Colpitt (The Menil Collection & Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX) Fred Wilson by Dustin Ericksen (50th Venice Biennale, U.S. Pavilion)