---> X-TRA Vol. 8 No. 4 is Now Online! <---
X-TRA announces the publication of Volume 8, Number 4.
X-Tra is a contemporary art quarterly published by the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a nonprofit corporation. The journal is collectively edited by a board composed of independent artists and writers based in Los Angeles.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997. In this issue:
FEATURES: Art historian Mika Yoshitake explores the
emergence of the "Non-Art" movement in Japan, which
radically engaged the line between politics and
practice. Meredith Goldsmith applies Pierre Bourdieu's
methodology to Miami Basel and the Art Fair
Phenomenon. In conversation with Adam Kleinman,
Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architect discusses
a strategy of growing, versus deploying, projects.
ARTIST'S PROJECT: Angela Ellsworth stitches portraits
of Pierre Bourdieu and Farshid Moussavi on paper
napkins. (Download available online at
http://www.x-traonline.org/)
REVIEWS: Sandeep Mukherjee's new works at Sister aim
for the edges of infinity. Eva Forgacs looks to the
dream-logic of Surrealism as manifested in Mindy
Shapero's recent sculptures and works on paper at Anna
Helwing Gallery. Fikret Atay discreetly creates a
territory of resistance for the subjects of his
videos. An exhibition of works by 19th century
painters Cezanne and Pissarro at LACMA inspires
thoughts about 20th century photography. Trinie Dalton
visits contemporaneous shows on the art of cartooning
at MOCA, UCLA Hammer, and Pasadena City College.
Jennifer Wulffson Goodell takes up OCMA's Landscape
Confection, a recent survey that, if it had a flavor,
would be emphatically sweet.
COLUMNS: Micol Hebron invites artists, including Jim
Welling and Spencer Mishlen, to reflect upon an image
of their choosing for one minute. Shana Lutker
examines how Fritz Haeg's Edible Estates project aims
to bloom into something more than fruit and
vegetables. Julian Myers
X-Tra is a contemporary art quarterly published by the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a nonprofit corporation. The journal is collectively edited by a board composed of independent artists and writers based in Los Angeles.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997. In this issue:
FEATURES: Art historian Mika Yoshitake explores the
emergence of the "Non-Art" movement in Japan, which
radically engaged the line between politics and
practice. Meredith Goldsmith applies Pierre Bourdieu's
methodology to Miami Basel and the Art Fair
Phenomenon. In conversation with Adam Kleinman,
Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architect discusses
a strategy of growing, versus deploying, projects.
ARTIST'S PROJECT: Angela Ellsworth stitches portraits
of Pierre Bourdieu and Farshid Moussavi on paper
napkins. (Download available online at
http://www.x-traonline.org/)
REVIEWS: Sandeep Mukherjee's new works at Sister aim
for the edges of infinity. Eva Forgacs looks to the
dream-logic of Surrealism as manifested in Mindy
Shapero's recent sculptures and works on paper at Anna
Helwing Gallery. Fikret Atay discreetly creates a
territory of resistance for the subjects of his
videos. An exhibition of works by 19th century
painters Cezanne and Pissarro at LACMA inspires
thoughts about 20th century photography. Trinie Dalton
visits contemporaneous shows on the art of cartooning
at MOCA, UCLA Hammer, and Pasadena City College.
Jennifer Wulffson Goodell takes up OCMA's Landscape
Confection, a recent survey that, if it had a flavor,
would be emphatically sweet.
COLUMNS: Micol Hebron invites artists, including Jim
Welling and Spencer Mishlen, to reflect upon an image
of their choosing for one minute. Shana Lutker
examines how Fritz Haeg's Edible Estates project aims
to bloom into something more than fruit and
vegetables. Julian Myers
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X-TRA
Contemporary Art Quarterly
http://www.x-traonline.org
X-TRA Volume 8 Launch Party
In celebration of the publication of Volume 8, Issue 1, we invite you to join the editors and publishers of X-TRA for a launch party in Los Angeles.
Friday, September 23, 2005, 7:30-9:30 PM
at
The Mountain
475 Gin Ling Way, Chinatown, Los Angeles
In Volume 8, Number 1, X-TRA features a pair of articles that address the historicization of the 1980s art world. In "The Myth of Criticism in the 1980s," Howard Singerman looks at the shifting critical positions on the art of the 1980s as represented in the recent pages of Artforum and Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia.
In conjunction with Singerman's essay, X-TRA is pleased to reprint of Douglas Crimp's original catalog essay from the pivotal Pictures exhibition at Artists Space in 1977. Substantially different from the later version published in a 1979 issue of October, Crimp's original essay has never been published outside of the exhibition brochure.
Responding to the recent passing of legendary curator Walter Hopps, Ken Allan reflects on Hopps' importance to the Los Angeles art world. Allan details how Hopps' career shifted from promoting artist friends in unconventional exhibitions to participating in a "scene" that exemplified the particular combination of creativity and commodification that characterized the 1960s.
Regular columnist Allan deSouza uncovers some delights and drawbacks of Parisian flaneurie in his latest postcard installment. This issue's Artist's Project features William Leavitt's Organism (a theatrical habitat), a fragment of a theatrical script that was in part generated by the semi-random selection of the images that are used to illustrate it.
In the Reviews section, Jennifer Wulffson Goodell provides a walkabout of Olafur Eliasson's Meant to Be Lived In, a recent installation at the Jamie Residence in Pasadena. In a review of Marina Kappos's recent paintings at the Happy Lion, Kristina Newhouse examines how the subject disappears into the Los Angeles landscape. David Hatcher contemplates assemblage, postcolonial aesthetics, and art politics in a review of Wangechi Mutu's Problematica exhibition at Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Reviewer Shana Lutker looks at recent visions of the public in the work of Carey Young, Sharon Hayes and Paul Chan. Sandra Esslinger revisits the presence of the female body in Barbara T. Smith's early feminist performances.
With Volume 8, X-TRA continues its ambitious foray into arts journalism. Further refining the look and accessibility of the magazine, the editors have collaborated with Aaron King of Holiday Los Angeles in creating a new cover design. Additionally, X-TRA is now available on newsstands and in bookstores nationwide.
Open Call for Artists' Projects: For the first time, X-TRA is extending an open call for Artists' Projects for our upcoming Volume 8. Artists are invited to submit original ideas for direct-to-print artworks for publication that address the content, context, and format of the magazine. Artists are encouraged to incorporate a web-based element in their proposal for online publication at our website. For more information, consult the advertising section of the current issue, our website at http://www.x-traonline.org, or contact editors@x-traonline.org.
X-TRA is a contemporary art quarterly published in Los Angeles. Begun in 1997 by artists to provide an alternative to the limited critical discourse then available in Los Angeles, X-TRA has evolved into a provocative source for contemporary art criticism. Composed of Los Angeles-based artists and writers, the editorial board of X-TRA supports diverse critical approaches and unusual formats alongside historical essays, commissioned artists' projects, interviews, and substantive exhibition and book reviews.
X-TRA is published by Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. X-TRA is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the California Community Foundation, the Pasadena Art Alliance, and the Peter Norton Family Foundation.
X-TRA Editorial Board: Ken Allan, Stephen Berens, Ellen Birrell, Allan deSouza, Kianga Ford, Micol Hebron, Kristina Newhouse, Elizabeth Pulsinelli, Kati Rubinyi, Jan Tumlir.
Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism: Jeff Beall, Stephen Berens, Ellen Birrell, Mike Kelley, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Mitchell Syrop.
For information about X-TRA distribution, please contact projectx@x-traonline.org. Subscription information can be found at http://www.x-traonline.org. Please contact ads@x-traonline.org for ad rates and specifications.
For more information about X-TRA, please contact : editors@x-traonline.org.
Contemporary Art Quarterly
http://www.x-traonline.org
X-TRA Volume 8 Launch Party
In celebration of the publication of Volume 8, Issue 1, we invite you to join the editors and publishers of X-TRA for a launch party in Los Angeles.
Friday, September 23, 2005, 7:30-9:30 PM
at
The Mountain
475 Gin Ling Way, Chinatown, Los Angeles
In Volume 8, Number 1, X-TRA features a pair of articles that address the historicization of the 1980s art world. In "The Myth of Criticism in the 1980s," Howard Singerman looks at the shifting critical positions on the art of the 1980s as represented in the recent pages of Artforum and Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia.
In conjunction with Singerman's essay, X-TRA is pleased to reprint of Douglas Crimp's original catalog essay from the pivotal Pictures exhibition at Artists Space in 1977. Substantially different from the later version published in a 1979 issue of October, Crimp's original essay has never been published outside of the exhibition brochure.
Responding to the recent passing of legendary curator Walter Hopps, Ken Allan reflects on Hopps' importance to the Los Angeles art world. Allan details how Hopps' career shifted from promoting artist friends in unconventional exhibitions to participating in a "scene" that exemplified the particular combination of creativity and commodification that characterized the 1960s.
Regular columnist Allan deSouza uncovers some delights and drawbacks of Parisian flaneurie in his latest postcard installment. This issue's Artist's Project features William Leavitt's Organism (a theatrical habitat), a fragment of a theatrical script that was in part generated by the semi-random selection of the images that are used to illustrate it.
In the Reviews section, Jennifer Wulffson Goodell provides a walkabout of Olafur Eliasson's Meant to Be Lived In, a recent installation at the Jamie Residence in Pasadena. In a review of Marina Kappos's recent paintings at the Happy Lion, Kristina Newhouse examines how the subject disappears into the Los Angeles landscape. David Hatcher contemplates assemblage, postcolonial aesthetics, and art politics in a review of Wangechi Mutu's Problematica exhibition at Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Reviewer Shana Lutker looks at recent visions of the public in the work of Carey Young, Sharon Hayes and Paul Chan. Sandra Esslinger revisits the presence of the female body in Barbara T. Smith's early feminist performances.
With Volume 8, X-TRA continues its ambitious foray into arts journalism. Further refining the look and accessibility of the magazine, the editors have collaborated with Aaron King of Holiday Los Angeles in creating a new cover design. Additionally, X-TRA is now available on newsstands and in bookstores nationwide.
Open Call for Artists' Projects: For the first time, X-TRA is extending an open call for Artists' Projects for our upcoming Volume 8. Artists are invited to submit original ideas for direct-to-print artworks for publication that address the content, context, and format of the magazine. Artists are encouraged to incorporate a web-based element in their proposal for online publication at our website. For more information, consult the advertising section of the current issue, our website at http://www.x-traonline.org, or contact editors@x-traonline.org.
X-TRA is a contemporary art quarterly published in Los Angeles. Begun in 1997 by artists to provide an alternative to the limited critical discourse then available in Los Angeles, X-TRA has evolved into a provocative source for contemporary art criticism. Composed of Los Angeles-based artists and writers, the editorial board of X-TRA supports diverse critical approaches and unusual formats alongside historical essays, commissioned artists' projects, interviews, and substantive exhibition and book reviews.
X-TRA is published by Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. X-TRA is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the California Community Foundation, the Pasadena Art Alliance, and the Peter Norton Family Foundation.
X-TRA Editorial Board: Ken Allan, Stephen Berens, Ellen Birrell, Allan deSouza, Kianga Ford, Micol Hebron, Kristina Newhouse, Elizabeth Pulsinelli, Kati Rubinyi, Jan Tumlir.
Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism: Jeff Beall, Stephen Berens, Ellen Birrell, Mike Kelley, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Mitchell Syrop.
For information about X-TRA distribution, please contact projectx@x-traonline.org. Subscription information can be found at http://www.x-traonline.org. Please contact ads@x-traonline.org for ad rates and specifications.
For more information about X-TRA, please contact : editors@x-traonline.org.
---> X-Tra Vol. 6 No. 4 is Now Online! <---
X-Tra is a contemporary art quarterly published by the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a nonprofit corporation. The journal is collectively edited by a board composed of independent artists and writers based in Los Angeles.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997.
Featured in this issue: Performance artist and photographer Dorit Cypis interviews internationally renowned dancer and choreographer Simone Forti. Columns: In the first edition of Artspeak, a column looking at the ever-evolving lingo of studio, gallery, and theory, Micol Hebron contemplates “cornceptual.” In the second installment of his Postcard series, Allan deSouza reports from the College Art Association conference in Seattle and several concurrent exhibits. Artist’s Project: Enid Baxter-Blader presents Full Moon in Sunbury, a sequence of delicate yet tough pencil sketches that storyboard scenes from an imaginary film. Reviews: Leslie Dick finds in Hannah Wilke an artist who explored the complex and contradictory nature of female subjectivity. Jim Welling responds to the resonance of early conceptual photography in the work of Bia Gayotto. Artist Karl Erickson attempts to resolve his basketball complex by searching for good advice in artists’ self-help books. Architects are mildly taken task for prioritizing pedagogy over pleasure in a review by Kristina Newhouse. Daniel Mendel-Black sees the devil in a new translation of the cult horror novel The Other Side by Alfred Kubin.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997.
Featured in this issue: Performance artist and photographer Dorit Cypis interviews internationally renowned dancer and choreographer Simone Forti. Columns: In the first edition of Artspeak, a column looking at the ever-evolving lingo of studio, gallery, and theory, Micol Hebron contemplates “cornceptual.” In the second installment of his Postcard series, Allan deSouza reports from the College Art Association conference in Seattle and several concurrent exhibits. Artist’s Project: Enid Baxter-Blader presents Full Moon in Sunbury, a sequence of delicate yet tough pencil sketches that storyboard scenes from an imaginary film. Reviews: Leslie Dick finds in Hannah Wilke an artist who explored the complex and contradictory nature of female subjectivity. Jim Welling responds to the resonance of early conceptual photography in the work of Bia Gayotto. Artist Karl Erickson attempts to resolve his basketball complex by searching for good advice in artists’ self-help books. Architects are mildly taken task for prioritizing pedagogy over pleasure in a review by Kristina Newhouse. Daniel Mendel-Black sees the devil in a new translation of the cult horror novel The Other Side by Alfred Kubin.
---> X-Tra Vol. 6 No. 3 is Now Online! <---
X-Tra is a contemporary art quarterly published by the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a nonprofit corporation. The journal is collectively edited by a board composed of independent artists and writers based in Los Angeles.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997.
Features in Volume 6 No. 3: Christine Wertheim responds to Lane Relyea's "Allover and At Once," (X-Tra, vol. 6 no. 1). Kaucyila Brooke traces a history of the Woman's Building—LA's fabled feminist icon. Artist’s Project: Kristin Calabrese presents "Where the Oil Comes From.” Robert Linsley, Shep Steiner and Jan Tumlir construct a relationship between the Los Angeles and Vancouver art worlds by looking at the work of Canadians Robert Graham, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, and others. Reviews: Kristina Newhouse finds ghosts when she reviews "Signals from a Distant Outpost," a group exhibition curated by Brad Spence. Allan deSouza offers the first in a series of postcard reports from different locales—this time from London and Ireland—where he encounters art, sun and more. Editors: Features: Ellen Birrell, Allan deSouza and Stephen Berens. Reviews: Stephen Berens and Elizabeth Pulsinelli.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997.
Features in Volume 6 No. 3: Christine Wertheim responds to Lane Relyea's "Allover and At Once," (X-Tra, vol. 6 no. 1). Kaucyila Brooke traces a history of the Woman's Building—LA's fabled feminist icon. Artist’s Project: Kristin Calabrese presents "Where the Oil Comes From.” Robert Linsley, Shep Steiner and Jan Tumlir construct a relationship between the Los Angeles and Vancouver art worlds by looking at the work of Canadians Robert Graham, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, and others. Reviews: Kristina Newhouse finds ghosts when she reviews "Signals from a Distant Outpost," a group exhibition curated by Brad Spence. Allan deSouza offers the first in a series of postcard reports from different locales—this time from London and Ireland—where he encounters art, sun and more. Editors: Features: Ellen Birrell, Allan deSouza and Stephen Berens. Reviews: Stephen Berens and Elizabeth Pulsinelli.
---> X-Tra Vol. 6 No. 3 is Now Online! <---
X-Tra is a contemporary art quarterly published by the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, a nonprofit corporation. The journal is collectively edited by a board composed of independent artists and writers based in Los Angeles.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997.
Features in Volume 6 No. 3: Christine Wertheim responds to Lane Relyea's "Allover and At Once," (X-Tra, vol. 6 no. 1). Kaucyila Brooke traces a history of the Woman's Building—LA's fabled feminist icon. Artist’s Project: Kristin Calabrese presents "Where the Oil Comes From.” Robert Linsley, Shep Steiner and Jan Tumlir construct a relationship between the Los Angeles and Vancouver art worlds by looking at the work of Canadians Robert Graham, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, and others. Reviews: Kristina Newhouse finds ghosts when she reviews "Signals from a Distant Outpost," a group exhibition curated by Brad Spence. Allan deSouza offers the first in a series of postcard reports from different locales—this time from London and Ireland—where he encounters art, sun and more. Editors: Features: Ellen Birrell, Allan deSouza and Stephen Berens. Reviews: Stephen Berens and Elizabeth Pulsinelli.
Visit X-Tra at http://www.x-traonline.org/
X-Tra prints artistic and critical texts about matters of relevance to artists, writers and all those interested in contemporary art. The journal has been published continuously since 1997.
Features in Volume 6 No. 3: Christine Wertheim responds to Lane Relyea's "Allover and At Once," (X-Tra, vol. 6 no. 1). Kaucyila Brooke traces a history of the Woman's Building—LA's fabled feminist icon. Artist’s Project: Kristin Calabrese presents "Where the Oil Comes From.” Robert Linsley, Shep Steiner and Jan Tumlir construct a relationship between the Los Angeles and Vancouver art worlds by looking at the work of Canadians Robert Graham, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, and others. Reviews: Kristina Newhouse finds ghosts when she reviews "Signals from a Distant Outpost," a group exhibition curated by Brad Spence. Allan deSouza offers the first in a series of postcard reports from different locales—this time from London and Ireland—where he encounters art, sun and more. Editors: Features: Ellen Birrell, Allan deSouza and Stephen Berens. Reviews: Stephen Berens and Elizabeth Pulsinelli.
