CONTENTS: Art World Issue 1
Oct / Nov 2007
Cover artist: Boo Ritson
NEWS
10 Georg Baselitz Nicholas Serota and Norman Rosenthal discuss his retrospective
12 Tracey Emin An exhibition in York amassed by a collector with modest means
14 Eine Graffiti art or vandalism? A one-time stenciller of rats for Banksy joins the debate
16 Anselm Kiefer The first permanent contemporary commission for the Louvre since 1953
18 Paul McCarthy Wattis Director Jens Hoffman on the artist’s first role as curator
19 Project Space 176 Billionaire Anita Zabludowicz’s new private museum in London
20 Matthew Barney Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist on the Serpentine’s hit exhibition
22 Anthony Caro Details of his prestigious commission for a medieval French church
24 Art Market Frieze, Zoo and Paris Photo plus selected auctions and charity exhibitions
FEATURES
28 Louise Bourgeois Germaine Greer explores the life and work of this extraordinary artist
34 Karin Mamma Andersson Fisun Güner discusses the painter’s Nordic influences
40 Flawed Icons Jane Morris looks at the trend towards showy “destination” museums
42 David Batchelor Martin Holman investigates the “light” artist’s new, unplugged work
48 Takashi Murakami How can one artist find employment for over 100 assistants?
50 Tacita Dean Ben Luke learns about her hessian-walled filmic homage to Joseph Beuys
56 John Baldessari Karen Wright visits the influential conceptualist in his California studio
NEW WORK
10 featured artists, 50 pages of new work and Q&As
66 Boo Ritson Character studies
72 Tamsin Morse Ancient and modern
76 Marta Marcé A way with games
80 Idris Khan Multi-layered culture
86 Simon Morse Impossible machines
90 Neil Farber Blob-headed boys
94 Richard Schur Metaphorical grids
100 Graham Dolphin Chanel v Genesis
106 Tomory Dodge Apocalyptic skies
110 Healy & Cordeiro Ikea made art
REVIEW
122 Roni Horn On her intriguing new book about Iceland and her abiding love of libraries
124 Book reviews Abstraction and the Holocaust, Gabriel Orozco and an imaginary utopia
125 Simon Bill The cerebral artist-turned-novelist on five books he’d recommend to a friend
126 Books in brief Brain food and eye candy all mixed up in this pick of the latest art books
128 Paul Graham An acclaimed photographer of everyday life on his new 12-volume set
130 Magazines Introducing a recent crop of weirdly-named independent arts periodicals
131 Poetry: Tamar Yoseloff with her response to a fathomless Antony Gormley drawing
132 Jamie Shovlin A tour through his thought-provoking installation, A Dream Deferred
136 Student Shows 20 recent graduates explain what lies behind their degree show work
REGULARS
140 Obituary: Bernd Becher Andreas Gursky, Martin Parr and Candida Höfer pay tribute
146 Quiz Who made art out of cucumbers, sump oil, naked women and tattooed pigs?