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Dual exhibitions at the Center for Book Arts— Simultaneous exhibitions highlight the ongoing strength of the codex book as a format of aesthetic exploration. A news report from New York
by Carole. P. Kunstadt
Shana Agid, Rosaire Appel, Tomie Arai, Eileen Arnow-Levine, Lynne Avadenka, Bryan Baker, Delphi Basilicato, Barton Lidice Benes, Doug Beube, Karl Beveridge, Michael and Winifred Bixler, Helen M. Brunner, Deborah Chodoff, Carole Condé, Ana Cordeiro, Beatrice Coron, Maureen Cummins, Donna Maria de Creeft, Sylvia de Swaan, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Dikko Faust, Ann Fessler, Ellie Ga, Chitra Ganesh, Anne Gilman, Kathe Gregory, Roni Gross, Sue Donym and Marie Guise, Joshua Harris, Pablo Helguera, Barbara Henry, Candace Hicks, Ellen Holtzblatt, Wennie Huang, Gautam Kansara, Rachel LaRue Kessler, Matt Knannlein, Kumi Korf, Carole P. Kunstadt, Hedi Kyle, Suzanne Lacy, Guy Laramée, Edna Lazaron, Warren Lehrer, Catarina Leitão, Nancy Loeber, Hilary Lorenz, Margot Lovejoy, Isabelle Lumpkin, Mikhail Magaril, Guy Davenport and Barry Magid, Russell Maret, Franco Marinai, Barbara Mauriello, Scott McCarney, Jean McGarry, Amber McMillan, Julie Chen and Clifton Meador, Susan Mills, Richard Minsky, Tadashi Mitsui, Roni Mocán, Ivan Monforte, Carlos Motta, Rick Myers, Bruce Nauman, Shervone Neckles, Jánis Rudolfs Nedéla, Sierra Nelson, Sarah Nicholls, Sarah Paul Ocampo, Alfonso Ossorio, Shani Peters, Heidi Neilson and Chris Petrone, Dennis Ashbaugh/ Kevin Begos/ William Gibson/ Karl Foulkes/ Peter Pettingill, Michalis Pichler, Catya Plate, Sarah Plimpton, Fa Poonvoralak, Lilliana Porter, Mark Murray/Caliban Press, James Prez, Robin Price, John Randle, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, Gary Richman, Benjamin D. Rinehart, John L. Risseeuw, Martha Rosler, John Ross, A.S.C. Rower, Ed Ruscha, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Peter Schell, Norman Shapiro, Masumi Shibata, George K. Shortess, Robbin Ami Silverberg, SKART, Skutá, Karina Skvirsky, Kiki Smith, Marian St. Laurent, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Tattfoo Tan, Barbara Tetenbaum, Danny Tisdale, Juana Valdes, Claire van Vliet, John Frederick Walker, James Walsh, marshall weber, Cory Wheelock, Michael Winkler, Sam Winston, Paul Woodbine, Simon Woolham, Shanna Yarbrough, Ewa Monika Zebrowski, Paul Zelevansky, Marilyn Zornado at The Center for Book Arts July 6th, 2011 - September 10th, 2011
Posted 3/22/12

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I Guess This is Pleasure

by Erik Wenzel
Pierre Bismuth, Shannon Bool, Jennifer Bornstein, Marco Bruzzone, Agnieszka Brzezanska, James Lee Byars, Cheryl Donegan, Piotr Nathan, Oksana Pasaiko, Martha Rosler, Steven Shearer, Mina Totino at VW (VeneKlasen/Werner) October 29th, 2011 - January 7th, 2012
Posted 1/8/12

A few years ago I came across a zine that was called something like “365 Orgasms” or “A Year of Orgasms.” Basically it was a single guy’s masturbation diary with “how to get the most out of self love” tips. One entry described how you could use a rubber band as a cock ring, and if you twisted it like the infinity sign you could also wrap it around your balls. Trust me, I am going somewhere with this. The other entry I remember was that if you masturbate on the toilet, and time it j... [more]

Play Van Abbe

by Andrea Alessi
Ulay / Abramovic, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Sarah Charlesworth, Thierry De Cordier, Robert Delaunay, Braco Dimitrijevic, Barry Flanagan, Hamish Fulton, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Holzer, ANSELM KIEFER, Surasi Kusolwong, Richard Long, Christina Lucas, Klaus Mettig, Piet Mondriaan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Marko Peljhan, Pablo Picasso, Oliver Ressler, David Robilliard, Martha Rosler, Katharina Sieverding, Gerrit van Bakel, Erwin van Doorn, Erwin van Doorn & Inge Nabuurs, Jan Vercruysse, Andy Warhol, Yang Zhenzhong at Van Abbemuseum February 26th, 2011 - August 20th, 2011
Posted 3/7/11

Something unusual is happening to visitors’ attentions in the Van Abbemuseum’s fourth and final installment of Play Van Abbe, an 18-month exhibition program considering artists and exhibition makers as diverse “players” within the museum. The current exhibition adds further players to the roster, putting the museum-going behaviors of viewers up for scrutiny. There’s no shortage of art that relies on or even exploits the viewer, but here it’s the exhibition using its visitors. The artw... [more]

War is Over, if You Want It

by Thea Liberty Nichols
Martha Rosler at The Art Institute of Chicago October 23rd, 2008 - January 30th, 2009
Posted 12/29/08

All the economic doom and gloom seems to have put a damper on this holiday season’s typically heavy onslaught of commercials, billboards and radio plugs-- perhaps happily so. A more extreme counterpoint to consumer gluttony can be found when wandering through the contemporary art galleries of The Art Institute of Chicago where Martha Rosler’s series Bringing the War Home, from 1967-72, is now on display in its entirety.This series of twenty photomontages was created by Rosler during the US... [more]