issue number 18 | may - june 2007 artUS issue 18
 
 
 
 

LEAD
The Occidental Death
of Jason Rhoades

by Nathan Danilowicz

FIRST DEGREE
The Transmigration of
Dennis Balk: An Interview

by Gean Moreno

BOOK PASSAGE
Slava Mogutin: Lost and Bound
by Robert Summers

THE THIRD DEGREE
Why Art Critics
Don’t Matter Anymore

by David Carrier

POSTMORTEM
Loser Paradise: The Drifting Spectacle of the SI
by Sue Spaid
SIX DEGREES
Perpetuum Carmen: Sutapa Biswas’s Metamorphoses
by Laura Richard Janku

Cover art by Norbert Bisky

Reviews

“Pretty Baby” by Frances Colpitt (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX February 25 · May 27, 2007) David Altmejd by Nadja Sayej 6 (Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville CANADA January 27 · March 25, 2007) Robert Arndt by Elizabeth Pence (Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver CANADA March 9 · April 14, 2007) Nora Heilmann & Aimar Pérez Galí by Alex Segade (De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam HOLLAND January 23, 24 & 25, 2007) Ian Monroe by Maria Zimmermann Brendel (Galerie Upstairs Berlin, GERMANY November 4 · December 23, 2006) Norbert Bisky by Stuart Bernard (Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius LITHUANIA November 17, 2006 · January 7, 2007) “I Believe” by Simon Rees (Art Center Winzavod, Moscow RUSSIA March 1 · April 1, 2007) David DiMichele by Leslie Markle (Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles CA February 10 · March 10, 2007) Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen by Natilee Harren (REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles CA December 6, 2006 · January 28, 2007) Victor Henderson by Kim Bockus (Highways Gallery, Santa Monica CA December 7, 2006 · January 7, 2007) Jasper Johns by Aneta Georgievska-Shine National Gallery of Art, Washington DC January 28 · April 29, 2007) Jeremy Kidd by Eve Wood (Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA February 25 · May 27, 2007) Meg Madison by Jacquelyn Davis (Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles CA January 13 · February 17, 2007) Nathan Hylden by Itza Vilaboy (Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles CA February 10 · March 10, 2007) Corey Stein by Jody Zellen (Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica CA January 13 · February 24, 2007) “TRANSactions” by Itza Vilaboy (Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA September 17, 2006 · May 13, 2007) Bari Ziperstein by R. Asher (BANK, Los Angeles CA January 13 · February 17, 2007) CamLab by Shannon Stratton (40000, Chicago IL January 12 · February 10, 2007) Anthony Pearson by Elijah Burgher (Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago IL February 17 · March 24, 2007) Scott Short by Elijah Burgher (The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL January 7 · February 18, 2007) Doug Aitken by Jill Conner (Museum of Modern Art, New York NY January 16 · February 12, 2007) David Maisel by Ellen Berkovitch (Evo Gallery, Santa Fe NM February 13 · March 31, 2007) Denise Tassin by Cara Ober (Spare Room, Baltimore MD March 3, 2007) Thomas Allen by Yaelle Amir (Foley Gallery, New York NY January 11 · March 3, 2007) Rachel Harrison by Chris Bors (Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY February 23 · March 31, 2007) Vija Celmins by Mike Rogers (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA January 28 · April 22, 2007) Leslie Hewitt by Lori Salmon (Artists Space, New York NY January 18 · March 24, 2007) “White Noise” by John Devine (Art League Houston, TX November 10, 2006 · January 5, 2007) Anthony McCall by Helena Winston (Sean Kelly Gallery, New York NY February 2 · March 17, 2007) Saul Steinberg & Merlin James by David Carrier (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY December 1, 2006 · March 4, 2007 / New York Studio School, NY February 8 · March 24, 2007)