issue number 15 | october - november 2006 artUS issue 15
 
 
 
 

LEAD
 It Ain’t Necessarily So: “Only Skin Deep” and the Performance of Race in Images
by Malik Gaines

FIRST DEGREE
The Suite Life of Damian Loeb: An Interview
by Otino Corsano

BOOK PASSAGE
Queer or Qu’oran: Two Marginal Art Histories
by David Carrier

THE THIRD DEGREE
Terms and Conditions: Selling Tino Sehgal
by Nadja Sayej
POSTMORTEM
Sonic Boom, Sonic Bust: “Supersonic 2006”
by Christopher Russell		 SIX DEGREES
Liebermann and Whild: The Garden at Lake Wannsee
by Maria Zimmermann Brendel

Cover art by Julia Weck
Reviews

“Los Angeles 1955-1985” by Simon Rees (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris FRANCE March 8 · July 17, 2006) Sebastian Gögel & Paule Hammer by Jennifer Davy (Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin GERMANY June 23 · August 5, 2006) My Barbarian by Natilee Harren (Peres Projects Berlin, GERMANY July 22, 2006) Mathieu Briand by Kim Bockus (REDCAT, Los Angeles CA April 19 · June 18, 2006) Edgar Bryan by Eve Wood (Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA June 24 · July 29, 2006) Steve Hurd by Jody Zellen (Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica CA July 8 · August 26, 2006) William E. Jones by Jennifer Krasinski (American Cinematheque, Los Angeles CA December 10, 2006) Michael Queenland by Erik Bluhm (Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles CA April 21 · May 27, 2006) “Nothing Up The Sleeve” by Alex Segade (The Glendale College Art Gallery, CA August 26 · September 30, 2006) “Andy Warhol/Supernova” by Ihor Holubizky (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto CANADA July 8 · October 22, 2006) Camp Campaign by Ryan Griffis (Mess Hall, Chicago IL July 12, 2006) “Home of the Free” by Michelle Grabner (Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL June 25 · September 3, 2006) Michael Phelan by Gean Moreno (Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva SWITZERLAND May 18 · July 15, 2006) William Christenberry by Susan Ross (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC July 1, 2006 · July 8, 2007) Anselm Kiefer by Aneta Georgievska-Shine (Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington DC June 22 · September 10, 2006) “Signal Channel” by Daniel A. Siedell (Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha NE June 9 · August 12, 2006) Sophie von Hellermann by Michelle Grabner (Chisenhale Gallery, London UK June 6 · July 23, 2006) SITE Santa Fe’s 6th International Biennial by Ellen Berkovitch (SITE Santa Fe, NM July 9, 2006 · January 7, 2007) “AngloMania” by David Carrier (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY May 3 · September 4, 2006) Geoffrey Bell by Andrea Liu (Bushwick Art Projects Lab, Brooklyn NY July 22, 2006) Jean-Étienne Liotard by David Carrier (The Frick Collection, New York NY June 13 · September 17, 2006) “After the Reality” by Jill Conner (Deitch Projects, New York NY July 6 · August 12, 2006) “Matter of Time” by Helena Winston (Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York NY June 1· July 28, 2006) Erik Sall by Nadja Sayej (ATM Gallery, New York NY June 1 · July 1, 2006) “Self-Portraitr” by Carla Ruth Dunham (Pace/McGill Gallery, New York NY June 30 · August 25, 2006) “Time Frame” by Lori Salmon (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY June 25 · October 2, 2006) Julia Weck by Cameron Shaw (Moti Hasson Gallery, New York NY June 1 - July 15, 2006) Terence Hammonds by Sue Spaid (Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati OH June 30 · August 18, 2006) Daniel Hesidence by Lyz Bly (Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH May 20 · July 28, 2006) John Grade by Elizabeth Pence (Davidson Contemporary, Seattle WA May 11 · June 24, 2006) SIMPARCH by Sue Spaid (Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati OH May 5 · July 25, 2006/ Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH May 6 · October 1, 2006 ) Janet Cardiff & George Buress Miller by John Devine (Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia PA April 1, 2005 · November 30, 2006)