issue number 16 | january - february 2007 artUS issue 16
 
 
 
 

LEAD
Past Web Presences: A Study in German
by Rembert Hüser

FIRST DEGREE
Enrique Martínez Celaya: “Coming Home” Before & After “Schneebett”
by Daniel A. Siedell

ART PASSAGE
War Rugs: Political Art from the Islamic World
by David Carrier

THE THIRD DEGREE
Matthew Barney’s Dawning Restraint
by Mike Rogers

POSTMORTEM
Another World Turns: Hosting Vaginal Davis’s Bricktops
by Robert Summers
SIX DEGREES
Eva Hesse: Drawn Together
by Eve Wood

Cover art by Tony Oursler

Reviews

Katy Crowe by Laurence A. Rickels (Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles CA October 14 · November 18, 2006) Michael Parekowhai by Reuben Keehan (Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney AUSTRALIA October 5 · 28, 2006) “Make Your Own Life” by Nadja Sayej ( The Power Plant, Toronto CANADA September 22 · December 3, 2006) “Why Pictures Now” by Simon Rees (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, AUSTRIA June 6 · October 1, 2006) “Nafas” by Maria Zimmermann Brendel (ifa Galerie, Berlin May 19 · August 20 / Stuttgart GERMANY November 1, 2006 · January 7, 2007) Jeremy Mora by Jody Zellen (Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica CA October 14 - November 11, 2006) Kevin Appel by R. Asher (Angles Gallery, Santa Monica CA September 8 · October 14, 2006) Anna Von Mertens by Yaelle Amir (Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco CA August 5 · September 2, 2006) David Noonan by Andrew Berardini (David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA September 8 · October 7, 2006) Tony Oursler by Itza Vilaboy (Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA September 14 · October 14, 2006) Ryan Taber by Christopher Russell (Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica CA September 9 · October 7, 2006) Gert & Uwe Tobias by Katherine Satorius (LightBox Gallery, Culver City CA September 9 · October 14, 2006) Wolfgang Tillmans by Natilee Harren (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA September 17, 2006 · January 7, 2007) Jennifer Vanderpool by Eve Wood (Bandini Art, Culver City CA September 16 · October 14, 2006) Daniel Libeskind by Ellen Berkovitch (Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, CO October 7, 2006) Charles H. Nelson by Gean Moreno (Ingalls & Associates, Miami FL September 9 · October 8, 2006) Erik Sandberg by Aneta Georgievska-Shine (Connor Contemporary Art, Washington DC September 15 · October 28, 2006) Gean Moreno by Danielle Duval (Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami FL September 9 · October 7, 2006) Dan Steinhilber by Cara Ober (The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD October 1, 2006 · February 18, 2007) Cecily Brown by David Carrier (Des Moines Art Center, IA August 4 · October 1, 2006) “High Times, Hard Times” by David Carrier (Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC August 6 · October 15, 2006) Ken Gonzales-Day by Mitra Abbaspour (CUE Art Foundation, New York NY September 7 · October 14, 2006) Natalie Jeremijenko by Ryan Griffis (Postmasters, New York NY September 7 · October 7, 2006) John Wilcox by Frances Colpitt (Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas TX September 9 · October 14, 2006) Nina Katchadourian by Sue Spaid (The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY June 24 · December 30, 2006) “High Tide” by Raimundas Malasauskas (Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius LITHUANIA June 2 · August 15, 2006) “Klee and America” by David Carrier ( The Phillips Collection, Washington DC June 17 · September 10, 2006) Annie Leibovitz by Jill Conner (Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY October 20, 2006 · January 21, 2007) Keegan McHargue by Yaelle Amir (Metro Pictures, New York NY September 21 · October 28, 2006) “One Way or Another” by Andrea Liu ( Asia Society, New York NY September 7 · December 10, 2006) Vik Muniz by Helena Winston (Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York NY September 9 · October 14, 2006) Jade Townsend / “Art & Alchemy” by Alison Levy (Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York NY September 7 · October 14, 2006 / Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York NY September 8 · October 14, 2006) Dana Schutz by Lyz Bly (Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH September 29 · December 30, 2006) Byron Kim by Elizabeth Pence (Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA July 8 · September 17, 2006)