ART LIES: A Contemporary Art Quarterly

Issue 64

Mike Kelley and Michael Smith, Baby Alone and at Play on the Playa from A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, 2009; curated by Emi Fontana; co-produced by SculptureCenter, Long Island City, and West of Rome, Los Angeles; photo by Malcolm Stuart

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there [selection]

- text by Anthony Huberman, design -

It Doesn’t Reveal Itself [excerpt]

- Richard Shiff -

Questioned about his brick structures, Per Kirkeby replied: “They’re precisely something you’re in, just like my way of painting pictures, that is, if you want to get anything out of them, then they have to be something you’re in.

Assembly Instructions (IKEA, Manzoni, Klein et al.) [transparencies]

- Alexandre Singh -

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Assembly Instructions (IKEA, Manzoni, Klein et al.) [lecture notes]

- Alexandre Singh -

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Wagging about (with intent)

- Carlin Wing -

Loitering is a particular way of spending time—a way that is, somewhat paradoxically, particularly unparticular. To loiter is to linger, apparently unnecessarily and possibly illegally, depending on the regulation of the space in question. It is also often associated with indolence.

Map of Incomplete Listing of Uninhabited Islands of the World, April 2009 [fragment]

- Katrina Moorhead -

Unnamed Skiff

- Zach Moser -

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Reconsidering Metaphor/Metonymy: Art and the Suppression of Thought

- Charles Gaines -

In a panel held in New York and moderated by Beatrix Ruf, the director of the Kunsthalle Zürich, John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner and Liam Gillick discussed the metaphor.

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Another Type of Time

- Graham T. Beck -

Since 1989, Bill Dilworth has overseen The New York Earth Room (1977), a Walter De Maria installation that occupies 3,600 square feet of floor space in a second-story SoHo loft.

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Firmament

- Demetrius Oliver -

Musings on Antinomies and Art

- Rachel Hooper -

A framed picture of a woman in a bikini flipped upside down, a wire rack holding a few painted glass balls, a photograph of a protest against the Iraq War with stripes painted on it framed in cardboard, a toilet brush wrapped in plastic, a cracked mirror, a sale sign, a mannequin bottom in white underwear and a geometric painting sit on a horizontal row of shelves in Josephine Meckseper’s Untitled (%), 2005.