C Magazine 118

C Magazine 118, Criticism
Softcover, 60 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 295 mm
Edition of 2200
ISSN 1480-5472
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Issue 118 includes feature essays by Adam Lauder on “Sensitivity Information”, Charlene Lau on “Problems in the Evaluation of Contemporary Art”, Stephen Horne on the “Doing(s) of Art Criticism”, Ben Davis on “Surviving the Crisis”, and Peta Rake on “Private Acts: Note taking in the Margins of Art Criticism”, as well as Sky Goodden in conversation with Dave Hickey.

Artist Projects include Dave Dyment’s Old Man Deciphering a Briefcase, and Charmaine Wheatley’s The Painting is Better.

Also, in this issue, reviews from across Canada and around the globe: Rose Bouthillier on Julia Dault, Jessica Bradley Annex, Toronto; Heather White on Jimmy Limit: Show Room, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto; Shannon Anderson on Volume: Hear Here, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga; Kyla Brown on Peter Dykhuis: Inventories & Micro-mapping, Red Head Gallery, Toronto; Vanessa Parent: Invisible Violence, Artspeak, Vancouver; Gloria Hickey on Philippa Jones: MIRIAD, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s; Jane Affleck on Position As Desired, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax; Daniella E. Sanader on Manuela Lalic: Activisme timide, Optica, Montreal; Jill Gleesing This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Jen Hutton on Jordan Wolfson: Raspberry Poser, REDCAT, Los Angeles; and Michael Davidge on Robert Tombs: L’Occupation, ParisCONCRET, Paris.

C118 also includes book reviews of The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978, review by Leah Modigliani; West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, review by Felicity Tayler; and Work Work Work: A Reader on Art and Labour, review by Amber Landgraff.

Adam Lauder, Amber Landgraff, Art, Artspeak, Ben Davis, C Magazine, Charlene Lau, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Culture, Daniella E. Sanader, Dave Dyment, Dave Hickey, Distribution, Felicity Tayler, Gloria Hickey, Heather White, Jane Affleck, Jen Hutton, Jill Gleesing, Jordan Wolfson, Julia Dault, Kyla Brown, Leah Modigliani, Manuela Lalic, Michael Davidge, Peta Rake, Peter Dykhuis, Philippa Jones, Robert Tombs, Rose Bouthillier, Shannon Anderson, Sky Goodden, Vanessa Parent

C Magazine 111

C Magazine 111, Libraries
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Issue 111 Libraries includes features by Adam Lauder on Performing the Library; Jen Hutton on Dexter Sinister; David Senior on the Whole Earth Catalogue; Randy Lee Cutler on Reading; Pandora Syperek on ILLUMINnations: the 54th Venice Biennale; Jenifer Papararo on Frances Stark: I’ve Had it and a Half at The Hammer Museum, and an artist project by Read-in. Issue 111 also includes reviews of: Rabih Mroué: The Inhabitants of Images at Prefix ICA; Song Dong: Waste Not at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Gina Badger: Mongrels at Issue Project Room; Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor at OCAD Professional Gallery; Chris Curreri: Something Something at University of Toronto Art Centre; The Birds and the Bees at Oakville Galleries; The Domestic Queens Project at FOFA Gallery, Concordia, and Wim Botha: All Around at Galerie Jette Rudolf. Also included is a review by the 2011 C New Critics Competition winner Kari Cwynar on Models for Taking Part at Presentation House Gallery.

Adam Lauder, Adel Abdessemed, Art, C Magazine, Chris Curreri, David Senior, Design, Dexter Sinister, Distribution, Frances Stark, Galerie Jette Rudolf, Gina Badger, Hammer Museum, Jen Hutton, Jenifer Papararo, Kari Cwynar, Libraries, Pandora Syperek, Rabih Mroué, Randy Lee Cutler, Read-in, Song Dong, Whole Earth Catalogue, Wim Botha

C Magazine 108

C Magazine 108, Money
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 295 mm
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ISSN 1480-5472
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C Magazine issue 108 Money includes an artist project by Abbas Akhavan, where he has inserted a sheet of imitation gold leaf in each of 2,200 copies of C Magazine. Also available are 25 special limited edition magazines with gold leaf, signed and numbered by the artist.

Feature articles in issue 108 include Economies of Faith, by Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, looking at works by Mark Boulos, Melanie Gilligan and Olivia Plender that explore the relationship between the workings of the market and the spiritual belief, and Documents of Self-Administration: A Conversation with Vincent Bonin, by Adam Lauder, about the exhibition Documentary Protocols at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery. This issue also includes interviews with British artist Spartacus Chetwynd, by David Lillington, and Canadian artist Divya Mehra, by Natasha Bissonauth.

Reviews include Shannon Anderson on Anselm Kiefer’s Palmsonntag at the Art Gallery of Ontario; Saelen Twerdy on Projections: Music Video at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Kenneth Hayes on Group ABS at Gallery Siz in Rijeka, Croatia; Vanessa Nicholas on Rivane Neuenschwander’s A Day Like Any Other at the New Museum; Heather Diack on Annie MacDonell’s Beside the Midnight Lake at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects; Rebecca Weisman on Guy Ben-Ner: Thursday the 12th at Mass MoCA; Jill Glessing on Fernando Sánchez Castillo: National Episodes and Óscar Muñoz: Becoming Air at Círculo de Bellas Arte, Madrid; Michael Birchall on the 6th Berlin Biennale; and Evan Webber on Jon McCurley: Fashion Blog — Clothes for President.

Abbas Akhavan, Adam Lauder, Annie MacDonell, Anselm Kiefer, Art, C Magazine, David Lillington, Distribution, Divya Mehra, Evan Webber, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Guy Ben-Ner, Heather Diack, Jill Glessing, Jon McCurley, Katharine Mulherin, Kenneth Hayes, Marilou Lemmens, Mark Boulos, Melanie Gilligan, Michael Birchall, Money, Natasha Bissonauth, Olivia Plender, Óscar Muñoz, Rebecca Weisman, Richard Ibghy, Rivane Neuenschwander, Saelen Twerdy, Shannon Anderson, Spartacus Chetwynd, Vanessa Nicholas, Vincent Bonin