ART PAPERS 34.02 - Mar/Apr 2010

This issue was developed around two fascinating interviews that put forth very different understandings of context, site, and specificity. Notably, Noah Simblist's interview with Walead Beshty explores the artist's precise understanding of context and each venue's specific mode of interpretation, crucial questions of inclusion and exclusion, and the importance of theory; Niels Van Tomme's conversation with the collective What, How & for Whom about their curatorship of the Istanbul Biennial; and Berin Golonu's examination of the uncertain relationship between public and practice in her review of the Creative Time Summit. Significant reviews include Felicia Feaster's review of Erick Swenson's work in Caught Captive, Max Halperen's review of Leonardo Drew's mid-career retrospective Existed: Leonardo Drew, and Grant Johnson's examination of Luc Tuymans' retrospective.