special double issue number 24/25 | fall · winter 2008 artUS issue 24/25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
LEAD
 Naked Lunch and the Problem of Personal Identity
by Benjamin Bennett		 LEAD
Peter Saul and the History of Pop Art
by David Carrier

CYBER PASSAGE
 Japanimanga and Techno-Orientalism
by Mina Cheon

FIRST DEGREE
Jim Campbell’s Motherboard and Father Time
by Laura Richard Janku

BOOK PASSAGE
 Secret Theses III: At World’s End
by Benjamin Bennett

THE THIRD DEGREE
Mice in Their Million Hordes
by Sue Spaid
POSTMORTEM
Photography as Grief
by Enrique Martínez Celaya		 SIX DEGREES
Call Me, Joshua Abelow
by Otino Corsano
MUSIC PASSAGE
For the Birds
by Zachary Granger Moldof		  

Cover art by Harry Winston, Paris
Reviews

Moscow World Fine Art Fair by Edward Rubin (The Manège, Moscow RUSSIA May 27 · June 2, 2008) Gillian Wearing by Paul Foss (Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA July 12 · August 23, 2008) Takashi Murakami by Nathan Danilowicz (Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA May 3 · June 14, 2008) Charlotte Schulz by Arjun Gupta Mills (College Art Museum, Oakland CA June 18 · August 3, 2008) “Anatomy of Vanities” by Aneta Georgievska-Shine (Erasmus House, Anderlecht BELGIUM April 12 · September 16, 2008) Lawrence Weiner by Leslie Markle (The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles CA April 13 · July 14, 2008) “The Millennium of the Tale of Genji” by David Carrier (The Museum of Kyoto, JAPAN April 26 · June 8, 2008) “Black Is, Black Ain’t” by Ryan Griffis (The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL April 20 · June 8, 2008) John Armleder/Olivier Mosset by Dana Turkovic (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO May 9 · August 3, 2008) Anish Kapoor by Ivan Gaskell (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA May 30 · September 7, 2008) “Action/Abstraction” by David Carrier (The Jewish Museum, New York NY May 4 · September 21, 2008) Milan Design Week 2008 by Jacquelyn Davis (Various venues, Milan ITALY April 16 · April 21, 2008) “Lucky Number Seven” by David Carrier (SITE Santa Fe 7th International Biennial, NM June 22, 2008 · January 4, 2009) Ghada Amer by Harry Jacob Weil (Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum NY February 16 · October 19, 2008) Chuck Connelly by Jill Conner (HBO Documentary Films July 7, 2008) Dara Friedman by David Carrier (Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York NY May 22 · June 28, 2008) Melody Owen by Jacquelyn Davis (Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR July 3 · August 2, 2008) “I Won’t Grow Up” by Carla Dunham (Cheim & Read, New York NY June 26 · August 29, 2008) Bill Owens by Cara Jordan (James Cohan Gallery, New York NY June 26 · August 1, 2008) “After Everything” by Harry Jacob Weil (Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn NY June 20 · July 6, 2008) Ruth Root by David Carrier (Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY February 7 · March 16, 2008) 2008 Biennale of Sydney by Reuben Keehan (Various venues, Sydney AUSTRALIA June 18 · September 7, 2008) Tim Whiten by Nadja Sayej (Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto CANADA June 5 · July 31, 2008) Simon Willems by Eve Wood (Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica CA May 17 · June 21, 2008) On Kawara by Frances Colpitt 77 (Dallas Museum of Art, TX May 18 · August 24, 2008) Michael Markowsky by Amarie Bergman (Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver CANADA June 14 · July 26, 2008) Susan Robb by Elizabeth Pence (Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA April 24 · May 31, 2008) “Sugar and Spice” by Elizabeth Pence (Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA May 2-28, 2008)