issue number 26 | 2009-1
 
 
 
 
 
 
FEATURES
Triumph of the Will: The Jeff Koons Olympiad in Chicago
by Kathryn Hixson
Including: A Love Letter to Jeff Koons
by Alex Jovanovich
ESSAYS
Catastrophe Preparedness: “Eight Years Later”
by Kieran Murphy

The Butterfly and the Potato: Vilém Flusser on Design
by Chadwick Truscott Smith

“El Libro Negro”: Mexico City at the Front of Antifascism
by Beth Merfish

The Memorien of Unica Zürn
by Rike Felka

Oranges and Sardines: Painting’s Naked Box Lunch
by Katherine Satorius

  Herr Meets Hare: Donald and Bugs Fight Hitler
by Sander H. Lee
PROFILE
Kris Knight
by Otino Corsano
Warhol, Danto and the End of Art History
by David Carrier
Another Warhol Can’t Save Us
by Arthur C. Danto

Cover art by Maison Martin Margiela

Reviews

“Maison Martin Margiela” Mode Museum, Antwerp
Franz Ackermann &Richard Jackson Otero Plassart, Los Angeles
Eleanor Antin San Diego Museum of Art
“Giacometti, the Egyptian” Egyptian Museum, Berlin
Rachel Whiteread Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Karthik Pandian Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“After Taste” The Wall Gallery, Berlin
Ori Gersht Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, D.C
Manifesta 7 Trentino-South Tyrol Region, Italy
Shepard Fairey Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Laylah Ali DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln
Omer Fast Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago
“Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?” OCA, Oslo
“S&M Live!” The Commons, New York University
Martin Kippenberger Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Gilbert & George Brooklyn Museum, New York
Jenny Holzer Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Postmasters Gallery, New York
Abelardo Morell Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
Catherine Opie Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hiroshi Sugimoto Gagosian Gallery, New York
Ad Reinhardt Woodward Gallery, New York
Edward Shalala Brokebridge Gallery, Cleveland
Jubal Brown Vtape, Toronto
“Global Warming” The Icebox, Philadelphia
Colin Campbell Oakville Galleries, Toronto
Daniel Hesidence Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto
“Rapture in Rupture” Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin
Matthew Buckingham Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Paul McCarthy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Pierre Bonnard Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York