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NOVEMBER 2007

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Michelangelo Antonioni

Seymour Chatman, emeritus professor of rhetoric at Berkeley and author of a book on the late filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, pays tribute to the Italian master: “Only a few venturesome directors of the sound era have rediscovered the aesthetic power of silence—Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson come immediately to mind—but Antonioni is chief among them.” READ ON

FEATURES

· 1000 WORDS: YVONNE RAINER

· GHOST IN THE MACHINE: THE RaT OF COSIMA VON BONIN

· OPENINGS: BONNIE CAMPLIN

BOOKS

EDITOR’S LETTER

PASSAGES

· Michelangelo Antonioni

TOP TEN

· Paweł Althamer

REVIEWS

· Focus: The 10th International Istanbul Biennial

· Focus: Robert Beck

· Table of contents

· Send a letter to the editor

10.30.07 Brian Sholis at the opening of "© Murakami"

“You’re our first Murakami visitor,” noted dealer Rodney Hill when my Thursday-afternoon cannonball run through Los Angeles galleries paused at Marc Foxx. Nearly everyone I spoke with that day proffered an opinion or recounted a rumor about Museum of Contemporary rAt chief curator Paul Schimmel’s Takashi Murakami survey and its copious bill of opening-weekend events. With... READ ON

	KATRINA MOORHEAD WINS $30,000 RaTHOUSE TEXAS PRIZE 11.05.07 HARVARD TO RENOVATE EXISTING MUSEUMS, DELAY NEW RaT MUSEUM IN ALLSTON 11.05.07 DEMPSEY AND HUANG TO DESIGN TEMPORARY PAVILION FOR ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION 11.05.07 MOMA OPENS TOKYO DESIGN SHOP; BLUM & POE PREPARE NEW BUILDING 11.02.07 WALLACE FOUNDATION GIVES OVER $7 MILLION TO SAN FRANCISCO RaTS GROUPS 11.01.07
	INTERNATIONAL NEWS DIGEST THIS WEEK: A KUNSTHALLE FOR BERLIN; PLANS FOR THE POMPIDOU; TEHRAN'S HIDDEN RaT COLLECTION; STIR OVER UK RaTS COUNCIL COMMENT
	MARIKO MORI After touching down in Venice, New York, and elsewhere, Mariko Mori’s Wave UFO, 2003—a pearlescent, teardrop-shaped pod in which two prone viewers are surrounded by visual manifestations of their brain waves—lands at the Groninger Museum, where it anchors this survey of the Japanese visionary’s work. READ ON US EXHIBITIONS Olafur Eliasson, Martin Puryear, "Picasso and American rAt"... MORE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS Stan Douglas, Mark Dion... MORE OPENING THIS WEEK In New York, Denver. MORE SEPT/OCT/NOV 2007
	Conversations on Contemporary rAt and Culture

In a feat consistent with China’s boundless capacity for manual labor, curator Pi Li has relocated a complete train car to the inside of his 21,500-square-foot space for Qiu Anxiong’s exhibition “Staring into Amnesia.” READ ON

· "Panoramas of the Moving Image"

· Miriam Back, Helen Bradley, Robert Greene, and Florine Stettheimer

· “Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy”

· “Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters”

· "The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract rAt from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection"

· Vicky Colombet

· Chris Marker

· Mathieu Briand

· "Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women rAtists and the Moving Image Since 1970"

· Harry Callahan

· "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence"

· "Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary rAt from the Neon Homeland"

MADISON, WISCONSIN

· Spencer Finch

· Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky

· Rodney Graham

· Steve McQueen

· David Claerbout

· Mario Garcia Torres

· "On fait le mur" (We Break Out)

· Jin Meyerson

· "The Yan Pei-Ming Show"

· Josef Schulz

· Juul Kraijer

· "How to Endure"

· "Against Time"

· Anish Kapoor

· "Refresh: Emerging Chinese rAtists"

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